27th September 2017 to 8th June 2018, Online Course.
Many countries today struggle with how to deploy and manage their health care resources. Institutions, agencies, ministries and governments rely on well-trained experts to help them control costs and better manage their health care technologies, systems and infrastructure.
In this three-course certificate program, we’ll examine how to apply the principles of health economics to improve decision making in a complex health care environment. You’ll investigate health care markets and systems throughout the world and evaluate the effectiveness of medical treatments, interventions and technologies through outcomes research. Furthermore, you will develop the ability to use economic assessments to improve health care decisions involving patients, providers, businesses and government agencies.
This program is designed for professionals who work in the health care industry, especially those with a background in health policy and economics.
Program Sessions
Autumn 2017: Principles of Health Economics- Winter 2018: Economic Evaluation in Health & Medicine
- Spring 2018: Practice of Health Technology Assessment in a Global Environment
What you´ll learn
- How microeconomics is used to analyze the nature of health care markets and systems
- Key principles relating to health insurance and health care regulation
- Best practices for economic evaluation of health care technologies, including cost effectiveness, cost utility and cost benefit analyses
- Preference-based measures of health-related quality of life and resource allocation for medical decision making
- Different methods of health technology assessment
Published in GI-Mail 09/2017 (German edition). Sign up for GI-Mail here. Tip: More up to date educational events can be found online in the Education Database »medicine & health«.
