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Overview
Key facts
Topics explored will cover health and health care systems, economic evaluation methods, and how health economics connects with health policy, leading to greater insights of challenges being faced by the healthcare industry.
This module is designed to introduce the basic principles of health economics and equip you with the basic knowledge needed to interpret and appraise applied studies in health economics. The course covers issues including health and health care systems, methods of economic evaluation, setting priorities using health economics and the interface between health economics and health policy.
University of Birmingham's Introduction to Health Economics programme will teach you more about this topic.
Programme Structure
Courses include:
- Demonstrate a knowledge of the roles and limitations of markets and incentives in health systems;
- Distinguish between the different forms of economic evaluation and show an understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of the various approaches;
- Critically review published economic evaluations of health technologies;
- Demonstrate an understanding of the techniques used to measure both costs and benefits in the evaluation of health care.
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 5 days
Start dates & application deadlines
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Language
English
Credits
20 alternative credits
Delivered
On Campus
Disciplines
Economics Public Health View 138 other Short Courses in Economics in United KingdomAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Student insurance
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Other requirements
General requirements
There are no specific entry requirements to take this module as a stand alone, non assessed course.
Tuition Fee
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International
2350 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 2350 GBP for the full programme during 5 days. -
National
1130 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 1130 GBP for the full programme during 5 days.
Living costs for Birmingham
765 - 1134 GBP /month
Living costs
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