3 ECTS credits
90 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 4023149ENR for all students in the 2nd semester
at
a (E) Master - advanced level.
- Semester
- 2nd semester
- Enrollment based on exam contract
- Impossible
- Grading method
- Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
- Can retake in second session
- Yes
- Taught in
- Dutch
- Faculty
- Faculteit Geneeskunde en Farmacie
- Department
- Public Health Sciences
- Educational team
- Koen Putman
(course titular)
Amber Werbrouck
- Activities and contact hours
-
15 contact hours Lecture
15 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
- Course Content
The course consists of following themes:
- Introduction to health economics
- Basis principles in a health economic evaluation
- Measuring and valueing effects
- Basis principle of cost analysis
- Clinical studies in health economic evaluations
- Economic evaluation using decision-analytic modelling (decision trees & Markov models)
- Identifying, reporting and interpreting uncertainty
- Critical appraisals of health economic evaluations
- Belgian guidelines for health economic evaluation
Theoretical concepts in the abovementioned themes are made insightful using examples relevant in a biomedical sciences’ context;
The practical sessions consist of integrated exercises addressing the various aspects in the lectures. The practical sessions are mainly made in Microsoft Excel.
- Course material
- Digital course material (Required) : Slides, teksten en Excel oefeningen
Handbook (Recommended) : Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes, Drumond et al, 4de, 2015, 9780199665884, 2015
- Additional info
- Study material consists of slides, texts and Excel exercises that are provided on the online learning platform.
- The course is based on the Drummond et al. 2015 handbook, "Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programs." This book is not required to purchase but is an excellent supplement to the course.
- Learning Outcomes
-
Algemene competenties
- The student understands the basic principles of health economics and health economics methods and is able to translate these into concrete applications within the domain of biomedical sciences.
- The student is able to work out an economic evaluation of new technologies and to apply and interpret the appropriate evaluation methods.
- The student is able to assess the quality of publications of health economics studies, to comment on them and to make the translation to the Belgian context.
- Grading
-
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- Schriftelijk examen
with a relative weight of 100
which comprises 100% of the final mark.
- Additional info regarding evaluation
The closed book written examination comprises theoretical aspects as well as exercises.
- Allowed unsatisfactory mark
- The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.
Academic context
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Biomedical Sciences: Management and Business (only offered in Dutch)