Health Economics for Health Care Professionals

The module shows how the basic characteristics of the demand for/supply of health and health care influence the operation of different markets for health care, and the effects of proposed reforms in health care systems. Topics include the incentives created by different methods of funding health care; the advantages and disadvantages of different market structures in health care provision; the major features of the health care system in the UK and other countries, and the effects of proposed reforms of health care systems.

Module 5. Statistics for Health Economics

Authors: Paul Contoyannis and Nigel Rice. Revisions by Martin Forster and Maria Garcia-Reyes

The module covers the basic statistical methods that are used in health economics, defining practical problems in ways that are amenable to statistical analysis and understanding the potential pitfalls of the methods. Topics covered include probability distributions and random variables, descriptive statistics, sampling distributions, hypothesis testing and simple and multiple regression.

Module 6. Advanced Topics in Economic Evaluation

Authors: Karl Claxton, Andrea Manca and Mark Sculpher

The module introduces a range of advanced methodological issues in the field of economic evaluation including the current unresolved issues in economic evaluation and implications for health care decision making; the methodological challenges in conducting economic evaluations alongside clinical trials; application of statistical methods to the analysis of stochastic data in economic evaluations; applying advanced methodological issues in health outcome measurement and valuation and the applications of Bayesian approaches to economic evaluation.

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