Course content - Learning outcome - Admission - Prerequisites - Overlapping courses - Teaching - Examination - Evaluation

Course content

This course will include following topics:

• Using quality adjusted life years (QALY) in health economic evaluation.
  1. Using QALYs in economic evaluation
  2. Purpose, theory, assumptions and limitations

• Measuring QALYs
  1. SF-36
  2. EQ-5D
  3. 15D
  4. Time-trade off
  5. Standard gamble
  6. VAS

• Lab training
  1. Learn to estimate QALYs
  2. Simple presentations of QALYs

Learning outcome

The two main purposes of this course are to teach the students different measures of estimating quality adjusted life years and to train the students to estimate QALYs by using different statistical methods.

Admission

Students at UiO must apply for courses in StudentWeb.

International applicants, if you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures for international applicants.

The examination in this course is not available for external candidates. Only students admitted to the course may sit for the examination.

Prerequisites

Formal prerequisite knowledge

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Recommended previous knowledge

Some basic knowledge about health economic evaluation is preferable, but not necessary. Basic knowledge in using SPSS.

Overlapping courses

5 credits overlap with HØKON4307 - Topics in Economic Evaluation.

Teaching

Language of tuition: English

Access to teaching

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Examination

Home exam. After two days with lecturing and lab, there will be given an exam to be written at home. The exam shall be handed in at 10am on Monday the 26th of May. Further each student shall have a presentation of their exam. The presentations will take place on the 26th and the 27th of May.

Examination support material

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Language of examination

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All written exams and term papers at the master's programme in Health Economics, Policy and Management have to be conducted in English.

Grading scale

Grades are awarded on a scale from A to F, where A is the best grade and F is a fail. Read more about the grading system.

Explanations and appeals

You may request an explanation of your grades, and you may also appeal against your grades or make a complaint about formal examination errors. Read more about explanations and appeals.

Resit an examination

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Withdrawal from an examination

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Special examination arrangements

If you have a disability or a health problem that entails significant inconvenience in an examination situation, you may be considered for special examination arrangements. Mothers who are breastfeeding may apply for extra time to complete the exam.

Evaluation

Feedback from our students is essential to us in our efforts to ensure and further improve the high quality of our programmes and courses. All courses are subject to continuous evaluation. At regular intervals we also ask students on a particular course to participate in a more comprehensive, periodic evaluation of this course.