Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

Learning objectives

Knowledge

• Demonstrate basic understanding of costs, including the difference between expenses and disbursements, as well as fixed, variable, indirect and direct costs
• Understand economic evaluation methods/models, i.e. cost-effectiveness, cost-utility (and QALY), cost- benefit
• Demonstrate knowledge of the health care system’s organisation and financing, including the central differences between the Danish health care system and corresponding systems in selected countries such as the United States; the United Kingdom, Germany and Sweden.
• Demonstrate basic knowledge of the use of microeconomic theories/models for analysis of the health sector, including supply-demand model, Principal-agent, human capital and investment in health, corporate production function and cost components, large scale operations and productivity.

Skills

• Produce a (simple) economic evaluation of a medical technology (e.g. a new medicine/intervention) including sensitivity analysis (one-way, two-way, threshold value analysis, scenario analysis).
• Calculate the budget expenditures for the introduction of new medical technology (for a given organisation such as a hospital or region) and assess whether a new intervention represents “good value for money.”
• Use the models and methods of the field to analyse selected issues

Competences

• Critically assess existing economic analyses
• Critically assess alternative models of financing and organizing in the health sector
• Read and understand the key messages and assumptions in published economic evaluations and reports on economic conditions in the health care system

Type of instruction

• Teaching varies between lectures, workshops, (group) exercises and individual study.

Exam

Exams

Additional information

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