Economics of Healthcare

This short course offers a training in Health Technology Assessment. The purpose of this training is to provide the participants as members of a team with knowledge of methods, concepts, key issues and models that are used in the field of Health Technology Assessment, and more specifically economic evaluation of healthcare technologies.

The course consists of three parts:

• in the first part the participants will get acquainted with the economic approach of healthcare and economic approaches of innovations and entrepreneurship;
• in the second part they will apply the aforementioned knowledge and insights to different types of innovations, including product innovations and organisational innovations; 
• in the third part of the course they will take a closer look at the evaluation and implementation of innovations from an economic perspective.

It is assumed that in this course the participants have basic knowledge of (health) economics.

“Over the last decade, achieving an efficient allocation of scarce resources (such as budgets, time, money, personnel, rooms, beds) with respect to health and healthcare has become imperative. Health economics is a specific branch within economics that among others includes Health Technology Assessment, which is aimed at economic evaluations of healthcare technologies (e.g. cost-effectiveness analyses). Economic evaluations are key as they enhance the possibilities of achieving an efficient allocation of these scarce resources”.
Mickael Hiligsmann, PhD, course coordinator

Objectives

• To gain knowledge about health economics, including health technology assessment.
• To apply the knowledge to analyse care innovations from a health economic perspective.
• To learn how to make judgments of care innovations on the basis of economic arguments.
• To analyse cases of care innovation from a health economic point of view.
• To work with others in a collaborative setting.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree or an equivalent
• Sufficient English skills

Certificate
Upon completion of the course you will receive a certificate.
Upon successful completion you will also receive a list of grades.

Apply

Sign up by filling in one of the forms below:

• application form non-degree seeking Master   
• aanmeldingsformulier contractonderwijs AIOS   

Course fee
€ 1752,- for the academic year 2016-2017

Date
Start: 9 September 2016
End: 28 October 2016

Application deadline
24 July 2016

Language of instruction
Language of instruction is English.