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Mounting pressure on health care budgets worldwide has focused attention on how best to organise health care systems and the spending within them. The York programmes in Health Economics for Health Care Professionals have been set up in response to a perceived need in health care sectors for high quality distance learning programmes in health economics. The programmes allow students to gain an accredited qualification whilst continuing in their careers, and offer the flexibility to spread study over a period of years to match professional and personal circumstances.

We offer three programmes with the aim of providing students with the skills and confidence to apply the principles of health economics within the workplace:

The Postgraduate Certificate programme covers the basic principles and tools of health economics.

The Postgraduate Diploma programme covers these same basic tools and deeper knowledge in specific areas.

The MSc in Economic Evaluation for Health Technology Assessment (HTA) aims to provide training in the theoretical and practical issues of relevance in economic evaluation for HTA and to bring the student up to the current research frontier. Students will be provided with the experience and skills necessary to contribute to pharmacoeconomics and outcomes research to a level consistent with peer-reviewed journal publication.

The programmes are open to UK and international students.

The programmes are based around learning 'modules'. Each module has been designed around a workbook written specially by health economists in York and is supplemented by learning support for distance learners. Each module is assessed at the end of the twelve week module study period: for Modules 1 to 4 this involves an unseen written examination taken at an assessment centre. Modules 5 and 6 are assessed by essays and short pieces of project work completed in your own time.