Study Details: PGDip 1-2 years part-time
Mounting pressure on healthcare budgets worldwide has focused attention on how best to organise health care systems and the spending within them.
Building on the University of York's international reputation for excellence in Health Economics, the Postgraduate Diploma programme in Health Economics for Health Professionals and Policymakers is a continuing professional development, distance learning, qualification designed for employees of health care consultancies, the pharmaceutical industry, health insurance, governmental and non-governmental health care organisations.
2:2 or equivalent
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This is a Continuing Professional Development course and is designed for those who are already employed.
As you progress through the modules which comprise the Postgraduate Diploma, you will develop your understanding and analytical skills in a range of areas.
Core Modules
Basic Economic Concepts
Health Economics: Concepts and Analysis
Introduction to Health Care Evaluation
The Economics of the Health Care System
Statistics for Health Economics
Further Topics in Economic Evaluation
The first three modules will provide you with the basic principles and tools of health economics so that you can understand the workplace situations you encounter from an economic perspective and apply basic economic concepts in your work. The final three modules will help you to develop your understanding and analytical skills in a range of areas which were studied in the first year:
applying the theoretical methodology of microeconomics and health economics to the analysis of health care technologies, systems and policies.
the role of experimental and observational study designs in the analysis of health economic data sets.
a range of advanced methods to apply to the economic evaluation of health technologies.
Our modules may change to reflect the latest academic thinking and expertise of our staff, and in line with Department/School academic planning.
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