HTH RS M 789 / Health Economics for Health Care Managers

3 unit(s)

Part I (sessions 1-6) introduces basic concepts of economics and health economics by reviewing how markets for health care and health care insurance operate, and examines techniques for economic evaluation of health care programs, such as cost-effectiveness analysis and costbenefit analysis, and discusses how these evaluative principles are used to assess “value for money” in health care. Part II (sessions 7-12) introduces concepts regarding the economics of prevention, screening, diagnosis, and the economics of the pharmaceutical industry.