HME4309 - Advanced course in economic evaluation of health care
Course content
• The theoretical basis for economic evaluation
• Quantification of benefits
• Monetary valuation of health benefits
• Quality of life
• Discrete choice experiments
• Survival analysis
• Cost analysis
• Modeling in Treeage™
• Uncertainty and option theory
Learning outcome
Learning goal: To make participants able to perform simpler types of economic evaluation.
Admission
Id does not exist in shared textTarget group/participants: Students in the International master programme: Health Economics, Policy and Management, master students in pharmacy or other relevant topics, employees in government agencies or pharmaceutical industry, others with an interest in economic evaluation.
Admission requirements:
Knowledge of cost-effectiveness of health care interventions (HMM4301 or equivalent). Basic skills in using the computer programme Treeage®. Each participant must have a laptop computer and preinstalled Excel and Treeage®.
External applicants- how to apply:
Applicants who are not students at a UiO master programme must send an application. The application must include certified documents of relevant education/work experience.
Deadline for applying: June 1
The application must be marked “Application for HME4309”, and be sent to:
Department of Health Management and Health Economics
1089 Blindern
0317 Oslo
Prerequisites
Formal prerequisite knowledge
Id does not exist in shared textKnowledge of cost-effectiveness of health care interventions (HMM4301 or equivalent). Basic skills in using the computer programme Treeage®. Each participant must have a laptop computer and preinstalled Excel and Treeage®.
Teaching
Preliminary: Thursdays 12:15-15:00
Combination of lectures, computer exercises, case work and student presentation.
Syllabus autumn 2012:
- Mike Drummond et al: Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes, Oxford Medical Press. ISBN 978-019-852945-3 (paperback)
- Hunink, Glasziou, Siegel, Weeks, Pliskin, Elstein, Weinstein: Decision Making in health and medicine – Integrating evidence and values, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001. ISBN 0 521 77029 7.
- Briggs, Sculpher, Claxton: Decision Modelling for Health Economic Evaluation, Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-852662-9 (paperback)
- Various research papers (PDF-files) will be distributed during the course
- Treeage modeling software (costs approx $150).
Access to teaching
A student who has completed compulsory instruction and coursework and has had these approved, is not entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework. A student who has been admitted to a course, but who has not completed compulsory instruction and coursework or had these approved, is entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework, depending on available capacity.
Examination
• Presentation in class: The presentation in class must be passed in order to sit for the written exam.
• Final written exam
Examination support material
No examination support material is allowed.
Language of examination
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Grading scale
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