HEVAL5130 ¨C Modeling in economic evaluation II

Course content

The course aims to give a thorough introduction to advanced topics and critical thinking in modelling in economic evaluation.

Learning outcome

Knowledge

You will gain knowledge of:

• Value of information analysis
• Heterogeneity in modeling
• Survival analysis
• Validation of models
• Calibration
• Modeling of infectious disease

Skills

You will learn to:

• Include and analyze value of information analysis
• Estimate and apply transition probabilities by means of parametric survival analysis
• Apply heterogeneity in modelling
• Validate models according to recommended guidelines
• Build simple infectious diseases models

General competence

You will be able to:

• Understand the importance of a value of information analyses
• Evaluate the properties and quality of a model
• Evaluate the quality of the parameters applied in the models

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)

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.

Formal prerequisite knowledge

• HEVAL5120 ¨C Modeling in economic evaluation I
• HEVAL4200 ¨C Fundamentals of Economic Evaluation in Health Care

EU-HEM students on the Economic Evaluation track are qualified

Overlapping courses

• 5 credits overlap with HEVAL5130 ¨C Modeling in economic evaluation II.
• 5 credits overlap with HME4309 ¨C Advanced course in economic evaluation of health care (discontinued).

Teaching

Lectures, seminars, presentation of papers and discussion.

Mandatory assignment:

You must present a paper in class and take part in discussion of papers presented by other students in order to take the home examination.

Examination

Home examination

Grading

The Board at the University of Oslo has decided to introduce detailed guidelines for all examinations, which take place at the University. The description of the grading should be clear and transparent. This is done to ensure alignment between learning outcomes, assignments, and grading. The Faculty of Medicine has developed a web page with information regarding exams and the grading procedures (norwegian version).

Language of examination

For students at Eu-HEM: English

For students at HEPMA: The examination 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.