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PUBH5312: Health Economic Evaluation

2025 unit information

The overall aim of the course is to develop students' knowledge and skills of economic evaluation as an aid to priority setting in health care. Students will be introduced to the principles of economic evaluation and develop skills in the application of those principles to resource allocation choices. Emphasis will be placed on learning by case study analysis and problem solving in small groups. This unit covers: principles and different types of economic evaluation; critical appraisal guidelines; measuring and valuing benefits; methods of costing; modeling in economic evaluation, the role of the PBAC, introduction to advanced methods including use of patient-level data and data linkage. The workshops consist of interactive lectures, class exercises and quizzes.

Unit details and rules

Managing faculty or University school:

Medicine and Health

Study level Postgraduate
Academic unit Public Health
Credit points 6
Prerequisites:
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HPOL5000 or FMHU5001 or BSTA5002
Corequisites:
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None
Prohibitions:
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PUBH5302
Assumed knowledge:
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None

At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:

  • LO1. appreciate basic concepts of decision making and economic evaluation
  • LO2. perform a basic economic evaluation
  • LO3. demonstrate an understanding the principles of appraisal in the assessment of economic evaluations
  • LO4. demonstrate an understanding of the basic principles of decision modeling
  • LO5. apply the methods of economic evaluation to designing an economic evaluation of a health care program.

Unit availability

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Session MoA ?  Location Outline ? 
Semester 2 2024
Block mode Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 2 2024
Online Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Session MoA ?  Location Outline ? 
Semester 2 2025
Block mode Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Outline unavailable
Semester 2 2025
Online Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Outline unavailable
Session MoA ?  Location Outline ? 
Intensive September 2020
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Intensive September 2021
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Intensive September 2021
Normal day Remote
Semester 2 2022
Block mode Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 2 2022
Block mode Remote
Semester 2 2022
Online Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 2 2023
Block mode Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 2 2023
Online Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney

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