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PGPH931 is not available for new enrolments effective 2025. Contact askUOW for further information.
Subject description
This subject assumes no prior health economic knowledge. The subject develops understanding, principles and skills for robust net benefit assessment across alternative strategies with coverage and comparability of relative joint effects and cost. That highlights robust and flexible methods for net benefit evaluation across multiple strategies and public health domains … For more content click the Read More button below.
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Learning outcomes
On successful completion of this subject, students will be able to:
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Demonstrate understanding of budget constrained health economic principles for informing decision making and associated methods for analysis of net benefit consistent with opportunity cost allowing for joint relative absolute effects and costs of strategies in individual and community settings,
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Synthesise and compare evidence to robustly allow for translation, extrapolation and community ownership and potential for multiplier effects in comparisons of community strategies,
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Apply methods to systematically structure and analyse decision analytic and health economic analysis of public health problems in individual and community settings,
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Represent uncertainty in decision making including threshold analysis, sensitivity analysis and direct decision making in relation to cost effectiveness (cost effectiveness acceptability, net benefit and expected net loss curves and frontiers), and value of information from reducing uncertainty,
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Understand principles for, and undertake robust holistic evidence triangulation in policy evaluation,
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Evaluate net benefit consistent with opportunity costs for any investment applying the health shadow price to appropriately incorporate both adoption and financing decisions.
Assessment details
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Evaluation Assignment
Health Economics Essay
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