Four-week Courses in Health Economics

Schedules of Short Courses, academic year 1999

1. Microeconomics for Health Applications (1-27 June 1999)
The course is designed to prepare a non-economist to apply microeconomic theories to health systems. The topic will include theory of consumer or petients behaviour and theory of producer or health care provider, health care markets, uncertainty and health insurance.

2. Macroeconomics for Health Applications (29 June-25 July 1999)
This course is also designed for a non-economist to understand national economic system, of which health is becoming a major part. The course will cover the major macroeconomic tools and indices that will have impact on health or can be affected by health.

3. Statistics for Health Applications (27 July-22 August 1999)
The course focuses on the statistical tools necessary for the analysis of the health care system from the statistical or survey data. More emphasis will be put on empirical applications using microcomputer. The course will cover from simple regression analysis to time series data analysis.

4. Health Care Finance (24 August - 19 September 1999)
This course aims at enabling participants to analyse recent efforts of developing countries to finance and organise health care. The practical objective is to apply methods of economic and policy analysis to health care financing in the context of socioeconomic development.

5. Economic Evaluation of Health Care Services (28 September – 24 October 1999)
This course aims at exploring the nature, purpose and limitations of economic analysis and evaluation; public and private perspectives; measurement and valuation; and analysis of costs, performance and effectiveness; evaluation of cost-effectiveness, inequality and equity.

6. Health Care Planning (26 October - November 1999)
This course deals with techniques, issues and approaches to health care planning in the context of limited resources, at national and district levels. Participants will be required to identity information necessary for health care planning and policy making. Particular issues, such as efficiency and equity, will be addressed.

7. Organisation Management and Decision Making in the Health Sector (23 November-19 December 1999)
This course is directed to the analysis and decision making in health care organisations in the private and public sectors, and to examine the decision making processes required to formulate strategic plans for their development. Attention will be given to assessment of strengths and weaknesses of modelling in relation to particular types of decisions.

8. Health Economics Research Methods (21 December 1999 - 16 January 2000)
This course covers the key principles of health economics research, including the roles of questions, hypotheses and theories in the research process, with critical review of research design and methodology. This will lead to the ability to prepare a research proposal, including strategies for data management, analysis and communication of results.

Teaching Staff The short courses are instructed by the teaching staffs of the Centre for Health Economics, together with national and international specialists from the Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Australia and USA.

Admission Applications are invited from persons with competence in English, with a degree or equivalent in an appropriate field and with experience of health care in developing countries. Applications will be considered from health professionals, who wish to apply elements of any of the above courses to make up a personal study programme, to meet their particular work requirements in order to improve or support their work.

Application

• The fee is US$ 1,200 per course per person.
• The application form should be received at least three months before the starting date of each short course.
• The course fee must be received by the Centre at least one month before the starting date of each course.

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