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PU5542: ECONOMICS OF HEALTH BEHAVIOUR (2016-2017)

Last modified: 28 Jun 2018 10:27


Course Overview

The health behaviour of individuals – smoking, alcohol, poor diet, physical activity – are major contributors to development of health problems. Health policy needs to be effective and cost-effective. Economics as a discipline contributes to the understanding of health behaviors and provides tools for evaluating policy interventions to influence health behaviour.

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 2
Session Second Sub Session Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus Old Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Prof. Paul McNamee

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

None.

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

This course introduces the students to key economic concepts that help explain and predict health behaviours. This course builds on some of the methods introduced in 'PU5401: Economic Evaluation – Principles and Frameworks', by providing discussion of how economics can be used as a means of understanding health behaviours, and how that understanding can then be applied in the development and evaluation of policies and interventions that aim to inform or change behaviours.  The types of health behaviours that will be studied in the course include lifestyle choices relating to diet, physical activity, alcohol consumption and smoking, both for healthy populations as well as for people with long-term conditions.


Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

More Information about Week Numbers


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.

Summative Assessments

Short answers (40%); Short essay (60%); Contribution to group discussion via MyAberdeen (0%).

Resit: a resit assignment will be set in the same format as the original - short answers and essay.

Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Feedback

Essay and short answers - marked online using standardised rubrics with additional comments to highlight areas of excellence and/or improvement.

Course Learning Outcomes

None.

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