HEVAL4200 ¨C Fundamentals of Economic Evaluation in Health Care

Course content

The course aims to introduce the basic principles of economic evaluation of health programmes (life style interventions, surgical treatment, medical interventions including pharmaceuticals).

Learning outcome

Knowledge

You will know:

• Theoretical basis of economic evaluation
• Types of economic evaluations
• The concept of cost and measuring and valuing costs
• Time preferences and discounting
• Measuring health outcomes in "natural units"
• Valuing health outcomes in monetary and quality-of-life-terms
• Types of models
• Use of economic evaluation in health policy - the European experience

Skills

You will learn to:

• To read a paper about economic evaluation critically
• To translate decision problems into a decision tree

General competence

You will be able to:

• Understand background, methods and use of economic evaluation

Admission to the course

This course is only available for students at the following master programmes:

• Health Economics, Policy and Management (master)
• European Master in Health Economics and Management (master)
• Folkehelsevitenskap og epidemiologi (master)

Students who are admitted to study programmes at UiO must each semester register which courses and exams they wish to sign up for in Studentweb.

If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures.

Overlapping courses

• 5 credits overlap with HMM4301 ¨C Optimal allocation of health care resources and economic evaluation of health care technologies (discontinued).

Examination

Written school examination.

Some of the exam problems will be related to an article which will be distributed by e-mail approximately 3 weeks prior to the exam. A paper copy of this article will be available during the exam.

Examination support material

Four types of calculators are allowed to be used during the examination:

• Citizen SR-270X
• Citizen SR270X BTSPU
• Casio FX-82MS
• TI-30XIIS.

A?web based calculator will be available for use in Inspera.

Language of examination

For students at Eu-HEM: English

For students at HEPMA: The problem set will be given in English. Answers can be given in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish or in English.

For students on the epidemiology-track: The problem set will be given in English. Answers can be given in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish or in English.

Grading scale

Grades are awarded on a scale from A to F, where A is the best grade and F is a fail. Read more about the grading system.

Resit an examination

For Eu-HEM students:

An EU-hem student cannot present her or himself for the examination in a course more than two times. There will be held re-sits for EU-hem students who have failed an exam or who have legitimate absence (usually illness) in January and August. If you are entitled to a re-sit you must contact the student advisor via email no longer than one week after the result of the exam has been published.

More about examinations at UiO

• Use of sources and citations
• Special exam arrangements due to individual needs
• Withdrawal from an exam
• Illness at exams / postponed exams
• Explanation of grades and appeals
• Resitting an exam
• Cheating/attempted cheating

You will find further guides and resources at the web page on examinations at UiO.