What will I study?

Candidates take taught modules (60 credits) during the academic year

Health Care Markets:

Comparative analysis of how resources are allocated in health care.

Economic Decision Making in Health:

Economic principles for decision making in the financing, resource allocation, distribution and delivery of health care.

Health Services Resourcing:

Conceptual and empirical methods for evaluating alternative systems for resourcing and distributing health services.

Innovation in Health Practice:

Analysis of changes in health care practices, products and systems.

Research Skills and Methods for Health Economics:

Formulation of a targeted health research question; to research published sources of information; to develop, use and apply the skills required for  conducting health economic research; collect and analyse original data; write up a report.

Evaluating Health Outcomes:

Examination of the issues and theoretical methods in measuring health outcomes and in the economic evaluations of delivery of strategic goals and health care performance.

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