Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

Learning objectives

Knowledge

• Demonstrate knowledge of normative and positive health economics
• Understand the different methods for economic evaluation and economic analysis in health care and their application
• Demonstrate knowledge of health technology assessment
• Understanding of costs, including the difference between expenses and disbursements, as well as fixed, variable, direct costs, overhead costs and productivity loss
• Understanding outcome measures applied in health economic evaluations, including both patient-reported outcomes and monetary valuation of health outcomes
• Demonstrate knowledge of Quality-Adjusted Life Years and understanding of applications and limitations in health care decision-making
• Demonstrate knowledge of prioritisation in health care systems and understanding of the associated ethical dilemmas 

Skills

• Produce a simple economic evaluation of a new health care intervention
• Produce a deterministic sensitivity analysis (e.g. one-way, two-way, scenario analysis)

Competences

• Differentiate between normative and positive health economics
• Assess whether new health care interventions represent “good value for money”
• Critically assess the appropriateness of pre-developed questionnaires
• Critically assess the methodological quality of existing economic evaluations and interpret the validity and transferability of the results

Type of instruction

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

Exam

Exams

Additional information

Please consult the Moodle page for your semester and contact the semester coordinator if you have academic questions, or the study secretary if you have administrative questions.

All other enquiries may be directed to Helene Nørgaard, secretary of the Study Board.