Economic Evaluation in Health Care University of Birmingham

Overview

This Economic Evaluation in Health Care course at University of Birmingham is designed to go beyond the first principles of economic evaluation. Its focus is the development, extension and application of the main issues and techniques for economic evaluation.

On completion you should be able to:

• Demonstrate an understanding of the relevant issues associated with the appropriate collection and analysis of cost and outcome data.

• Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of discounting issues and the controversy surrounding the appropriate discount rate to use for costs and benefits within an economic evaluation.

• Critically appraise a number of alternative frameworks and modelling approaches that are used in economic evaluation and understand the appropriate presentation of results.

• Critically review alternative methods to outcome evaluation and their relevance to alternative evaluation approaches.

• Critically appraise published economic evaluations.

• Recognise the policy implications that may result from economic evaluations.