| Title: |
Economic Evaluation of Health Care |
| Keywords: |
Resource management (in general)
Measuring health status
Health economics
Health Policy (incl. advocacy)
Essential health care package
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| Country: |
United Kingdom
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| Course coordinator: |
Valentina Cambiano
Jolene Skordis-Worrall
Hassan Haghparast-Bidgoli
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| Date start: |
2020-01-01 |
| Date end: |
2020-01-29 |
| About duration and dates: |
2 days pre-reading, 3 weeks online, individual assignment to be submitted online at the end of the course |
| Classification: |
advanced optional
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| Mode of delivery: |
Distance-based
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Course location:
Institute for Global Health
30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH UK
tropEd Representative: Catherine Ford
catherine.ford@ucl.ac.uk
www.ucl.ac.uk/igh |
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| ECTS credit points: |
6 ECTS credits
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SIT:
150 study hours:
5 hours Lecture-casts/Screen-casts
40 hours practical sessions (online)
65 hours private reading
25 online contact hours
15 hours of portfolio preparation |
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| Language: |
English
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Description:
At the end of this module, students will be able to:
• Construct a decision tree model, interpret the results and engage with policy discourse around the application of economic evaluation data;
• Explain the theoretical foundations of economic evaluations in health care, define the common forms of Economic Evaluation and apply the most appropriate;
• Describe the different types of costs and outcomes related to health care interventions, and how they are measured and valued;
• Recognize the need for equity considerations in economic evaluations of health care;
• Describe sources of uncertainty and how uncertainty should be represented in economic evaluations;
• Critically review the quality and usefulness of economic evaluation of health care as commonly presented in published literature. |
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Assessment Procedures:
The assessment is in the form of a portfolio (100%).
The portfolio is a single document, evidencing the students’ responses to the practical exercises throughout the course and their reflections on each practical exercise. The instructions for the portfolio structure, the marking criteria, tips for a good portfolio, and examples portfolios are provided on the module page and available upon request.
Resits in case of failure: In cases of failure of the module (i.e. overall module mark |
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Content:
The topics covered in the sessions are as follows.
• Introduction - Economic evaluation as a guide to resource allocation in health care;
• Theoretical foundations of economic evaluation;
• Practical steps for conducting an economic evaluation study;
• Overview of economic evaluation methods;
• Critical appraisal of economic evaluation studies (Practical session);
• Defining costs in health care: economic approach;
• Identifying, measuring and valuing costs;
• Controversies: discounting future costs and measuring indirect costs;
• Measuring costs and valuing inputs (Practical session);
• Identifying, measuring and valuing health outcomes/benefits: An introduction;
• What are QALYs;
• Valuing health states (Health state utilities);
• Measuring QALYs (Practical session);
• How to calculate DALYs;
• Measuring DALYS (Practical session);
• Valuing health benefits in monetary units;
• Measuring benefits in monetary terms (Practical session);
• Controversies (Practical session);
• Introduction to modelling; decision tree models, Markov models and other common methods;
• Incorporating uncertainty: Sensitivity analysis;
• Dealing with uncertainty (Practical session);
• Decision tree models;
• Analysing and interpreting results in economic evaluations;
• Calculating cost-effectiveness ratios and using a decision tree (Practical session);
• Incorporating equity in economic evaluation of health care;
• Critical appraisal of economic evaluation studies (Practical session). |
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Methods:
Virtual learning environment: Moodle is used to enable students to access information about the course before and during the duration of the course. This will include core readings and PowerPoint slides etc. as well useful links to relevant literature and an extensive reading list of optional material.
Via Moodle, a range of innovative methods of learning will be used in this course. The course will combine an online didactic component (including lecture-casts and screen-casts), computer-based exercises and independent reading with peer-to-peer learning through virtual journal clubs or online discussion forum, regular online contact with a tutor, the creation of a portfolio (including exercises involving applications of the methodology introduced) to assist with the transition from learning to working. The assessment is constructed over the duration of the course to form a final coherent document (portfolio) including the exercises conducted during the course and reflections on these. |
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Prerequisites:
English language proficiency
IELTS Good level: Overall grade of 7.0 with a minimum of 6.5 in each of the subtests.
TOEFL iBT Good level: Overall score of 100, with 24/30 in the reading and writing subtests and 20/30 in the listening and speaking subtests.
For full details, see:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/graduate/learning-and-living-ucl/international-students/english-language-requirements
Students must have basic Excel skills i.e. they need to be able to do basic calculations in Excel. Link to basic excel training videos is available on the module page. |
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Attendance:
Up to 30 students including 3-5 places for visiting tropEd students. |
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Selection:
The number of available tropEd places on each module in the academic year is determined from mid-October. Places are awarded on a first-come, first-served basis. Please note that applicants must pay the course fees in order to confirm an offer of a place on a module. Full course fee refunds will be provided to paid-up applicants if there are no places on the module(s) for which they applied, or if the module is cancelled. |
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Fees:
GBP: 972.33
This is a differential fee and includes a £100 discount for tropEd students (other visiting students are charged £950). |
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tropEd accreditation:
Accredited in Umea, January 2014. Re-accredited in Rabat (EC TelCo), February 2020. This accreditation is valid until March 2025. |
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Remarks:
Students should be aware that the coursework conducted in this module is not to be applied to other required components, such as the thesis/dissertation.
A selected reading list is available here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/igh/study/masters/trop-ed-modules/economic-evaluation-healthcare |
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| Email Address: |
h.haghparast-bidgoli@ucl.ac.uk |
| Date Of Record Creation: |
2014-02-05 04:21:11 (W3C-DTF) |
| Date Of Record Release: |
2017-09-12 21:47:20 (W3C-DTF) |
| Date Record Checked: |
2017-09-12 (W3C-DTF) |
| Date Last Modified: |
2022-03-02 23:35:23 (W3C-DTF) |
