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PU5510: EVALUATION OF HEALTH AND HEALTHCARE (2014-2015)

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Course Overview

This course will provide students with a knowledge and understanding of the main theoretical and empirical methods in health economics to value healthcare interventions and conduct economic evaluations. You will acquire an understanding of both decision modelling for economic evaluation of health care technologies (medical treatments, diagnosis tests, screening strategies) and the economic valuations methods of contingent valuation, discrete choice experiments and best-worst scaling. Teaching will be delivered by experienced researchers from the Health Economics Research Unit using lectures, group work, interactive practical exercises and hands-on tutorials.

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Session Second Sub Session Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus Old Aberdeen Sustained Study No
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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 31 August 2023 for 1st half-session courses and 22 December 2023 for 2nd half-session courses.

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