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4d - Health Economics

Health Economics Index

Author: David Parkin (2009), revised (2017)

 

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  • Principles of health economics including: the notions of scarcity, supply and demand, distinctions between need and demand, opportunity cost, discounting, time horizons, margins, efficiency and equity
  • Assessing Performance
  • Financial Resource Allocation
  • Systems of Health and Social Care and the Role of Incentives to Achieve Desired End-points
  • Techniques of economic appraisal (including cost-effectiveness analysis and modelling, cost-utility analysis, option appraisal and cost-benefit analysis, the measurement of health benefits in terms of QALYs and related measures e.g. DALYs)
  • Marginal Analysis
  • Decision Analysis
  • The role of economic evaluation and priority setting in health care decision making including the cost effectiveness of public health, and public health interventions and involvement
  • References

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