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CHE runs a programme of short courses across a number of areas of health economics. Each course in the programme is detailed below. Please note that other short courses in health economics are run by other groups within the University of York. In particular, the York Health Economics Consortium Ltd (YHEC) run some training courses on specific areas of economic evaluation. The YHEC courses are administered and run entirely separately from those of CHE.
York Expert Workshops in the Socio Economic Evaluation of Medicines 2010
Objectives:
To inform and promote understanding in key areas of quality of life assessment and health economic evaluation:
- How to decide whether a particular evaluation is necessary.
- How to choose a particular methodology.
- How to identify the data required and appropriate instruments for data collection.
- How to undertake appropriate analysis.
- How to communicate the results effectively.
- Click here for full details.
An Introduction to Measuring Efficiency in Public Sector Organisations: analytical techniques and policy
- Learn the techniques and applications for stochastic frontier analysis and data envelopment analysis: advanced tools for measuring relative efficiency in the public service sector.
- Appropriate content for researchers, analysts in central and local government, and PhD students.
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Advanced Modelling Methods for Health Economic Evaluation 29th - 31st March 2010
- This is a three-day residential course held at CHE, University of York
- Aimed at health economists and those health professionals with experience of health economics who wish to learn about recent methodological developments in cost-effectiveness analysis.
- Click here for full details
Regression Methods for Health Economic Evaluation 2010
- This is a three-day residential course held at CHE, University of York, 24 - 26 March 2010
- Aimed at people currently undertaking health economic evaluations within the pharmaceutical and medical device industries, consultancy, academia or the health service who wish to learn how to use regression methods to analyse individual patient-level cost, effect and cost-effectiveness data.
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Analysing Patient Data: how to use the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) to evaluate health care policy and practice 29th - 30th March 2010
- Learn how to handle and manipulate HES data using computer software.
- Appropriate content for analysts working in SHAs, hospitals or PCTs, health care researchers and PhD students.
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Introduction To Applied Health Economics: methods for the analysis of panel data in health and health care 20th - 22nd April 2010
A three-day course focusing on the use of applied quantitative methods for the analysis of panel data encountered in health and health care. The course is run by the Health, Econometrics and Data Group, a collaboration between the Centre for Health Economics and the Department of Economics and Related Studies at the University of York.
The course is aimed at PhD students and junior researchers or policy makers working in applied health economics.
The course will explain applied health economics methods relevant to the analysis of panel data obtained from administrative or observational sources. Topics to be covered will include an introduction to panel data techniques including linear models and fixed and random effects; instrumental variables; non-linear panel data models; dynamic models; discrete-time duration models. Throughout the course, computer-based practical exercises will be used to show how these methods can be applied using the statistical package Stata.
The aims of the course are to introduce young professionals to the main techniques used in applied health economics, and to provide practical experience with the application of such techniques. By the end of the course, participants should be able to:
- formulate empirical problems involving longitudinal micro-data on health and health care
- select appropriate econometric methods
- understand methods of estimation and be able to implement them, using appropriate software
- interpret the results of the analysis
More details can be found here
PG Certificate and PG Diploma in Health Economics for Health Care Professionals
The York distance learning programmes in Health Economics for Health Care Professionals offer students the opportunity to study for University-accredited qualifications at the postgraduate level. The programmes are designed to allow students to study whilst continuing in their careers, and offer the flexibility to spread study over a period of years to match professional and personal circumstances. Click here for full details.
MSc in Health Economics
The MSc in Health Economics has been running since 1978 and the course has been completed by over 300 British and overseas students. It provides a comprehensive training in the theory and practice of Health Economics and gives students the experience and skills needed for research and health service decision-making. Graduates work in government departments, research units, universities, national health services and health care organisations, and the pharmaceutical industry.
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There are opportunities to study for a PhD to be based in the Centre for Health Economics. Being based in CHE will provide you with the opportunity to interact with a team of researchers working in your area of interest. We are interested in supervising PhD students in the following areas:
- Economic evaluation of health technologies (contact Mark Sculpher)
- Primary care (contact Hugh Gravelle)
- Health policy (contact Maria Goddard)
- Health and econometrics (contact Nigel Rice)
PhD students are based in CHE but registered with teaching departments, usually the Department of Economics and Related Studies or Department of Health Sciences. Therefore it is important that you consult the relevant departments regulations. Click here for more details.
Those interested in studying at CHE should send their CV and a detailed research proposal to the appropriate contact above, and confirm that they have funding available. Please see appropriate web pages related to the teams above for details of current research areas into which your proposal should fit.
Last updated January 21, 2010