Ms Maria Raikou OLD 2.24

This course is available on the MSc Health Policy, Planning and Financing, MSc in Health, Population and Society, MSc in International Health Policy and MSc in International Health Policy (Health Economics). This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.

There is no pre-requisite, although it is envisaged to be complementary to SA4C4.

This course develops the statistical and modelling techniques necessary to apply economic evaluation to the health care sector. Introduction to statistical methods, linear regression analysis, logistic regression analysis, survival analysis for health outcomes, survival analysis for treatment costs, economic evaluation and clinical trials. Estimation of confidence intervals for cost-effectiveness ratios. Transformation of ratios - net benefit approach. Missing data, parametric and non-parametric approaches. Presentation of analysis, acceptability curves. This is the same course as SA4G4 Statistical Methods in Health Care Economic Evaluation (modular) but it has different teaching and assessment arrangements.

20 hours of lectures and 16 hours of computer workshops in the MT. 1 hour of lectures in the ST.

The following are basic reading for the course: M Drummond & A McGuire (Eds), Economic Evaluation in Health Care: Merging Theory with Practice, OUP, 2002; M Drummond, B O'Brien, G Stoddart & T Torrance, Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes, 2nd edn, OUP, 1997; M Gold, J Siegel, L Russell & M Weinstein, Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine, OUP, 1996; M Johannesson, Theory and Methods of Economic Evaluation in Health Care, Kluwer, 1996; P Johansson, Evaluating Health Risks: An Economic Approach, CUP, 1995

Exam (75%, duration: 2 hours) in the main exam period.
Essay (25%, 2500 words) in the ST.

This is the same course as SA4G4 Statistical Methods in Health Care Economic Evaluation (modular) but it has different teaching and assessment arrangements.