Institute for International Health and Development - IIHD
Economic Evaluation of Health Care
(non credit bearing)
Tuesday-Friday 14-17 August 2012
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Aims of the course
To provide participants with the knowledge
and skills necessary to:
- recognise when to use different types of
economic evaluation
- appreciate the advantages and
disadvantages of different types of
economic evaluation
- understand the techniques used to
measure and value costs and benefits
- identify the policy implications of
economic evaluations
- understand published economic
evaluations
- clarify the strengths and limitations
of economic evaluation as a tool for
decision making
Who should attend?
Health care policy makers, health
care providers concerned with cost-effectiveness in the delivery of health care,
and researchers needing to incorporate
economic evaluations into their studies.
Provisional programme
Four sessions each day, two in the morning,
two in the afternoon
Day 1
Tuesday 14 August 2012
• Introduction to course
• What is economic evaluation?
• The different types of economic
evaluation
• Measuring costs
Day 2
Wednesday 15 August 2012
• Case studies in costing
• Non monetary measures of health effects: DALYs and QALYs
• Monetary measures of health effects
• Case studies in measuring health effects
Day 3
Thursday 16 August 2012
• Practical steps in conducting an
economic evaluation
• Economic evaluation as a framework for
decision making
• Using decision trees in economic evaluation
Day 4
Friday 17 August 2012
• Exploring the WHO-CHOICE model
• Case studies of economic evaluations
• Review of course and close
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