Health Economics for Health Professionals Postgraduate Programme (MSc/PGDip/PGCert)
The Programme is aimed at health professionals, people working in the health care sector, pharmaceutical industry, health-related research and government departments and at other interested students who would like to improve their understanding of health economics and research methods. It is designed for students who are unable to study full-time and/or want to avoid relocating. No experience of economics is necessary.
Health economics applies economic thinking to the analysis of health and healthcare. This programme provides students with a knowledge of core issues in health economics and their relevance to the health care sector. The programme will help you understand what health economics can contribute to decisions over the allocation of scarce resources, the techniques available for use within an economic evaluation, and the input health economics can provide answers to broader questions concerned with the provision and financing of health care.
Students study core courses in economic concepts; economic evaluation methods; application and policy of economic investigation; health care financing and provision; the economics of health behaviour and applied statistics. Students can also choose to study a range of generic health research methods, such as research design; systematic reviewing, health data science, real world trials and qualitative methods. These provide students wishing to progress to the MSc programme with additional skills to complete their dissertation.
The full Programme details, including how to apply, are available on the University of Aberdeen Health Economics for Health Professionals web pages.
For further information please contact the Programme Coordinator Dr Shelley Farrar or the Graduate School at the University of Aberdeen.