Type de formation : Formation courte
Langue : English
Délai d'inscription : 06.10.2024
Crédits ECTS : 2 ECTS
InscriptionIntroduction to Health Economics
This five-day course in health economics addresses key questions raised during the COVID-19 pandemic, such as ensuring equitable access to healthcare and encouraging health behavior changes like vaccination.
It will explore topics such as healthcare system efficiency, health insurance, inequality, and government regulation.
The first three days cover economic models and methods like cost-effectiveness analysis. The final two days focus on research applications and new developments, including inequality and machine learning.
Taught by leading Swiss professors, this course provides a unique opportunity to engage with cutting-edge research in health economics.
Location : Salle Delachaux, Unisanté, Bâtiment Proline, Route de la Corniche 10, 1010 Lausanne
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Thèmes
Santé publique, Systèmes de santé
Objectifs
After the course participants will have a solid basic understanding of:
- Key theoretical and empirical approaches of health economics as well as policy and health technology assessment
- Economic intuition and theory which helps students understand physician and patient behaviour, the organization of health insurance and hospital markets, and government policy related to healthcare provision and financing
- Empirical strategies used by economists (econometrics, causal inference, machine learning, experiments, etc.), as well as health technology assessment (cost-effectiveness analysis, decision-analytic modelling, etc.)
- How to judge and constructively criticize empirical evidence in economics and related fields
- The topics researchers currently work on in the field of health economics
Public cible
The course is open to all PhD student interested in in getting a first overview of health economics. The course offers a broad introduction to topics at the heart of health economics.
SSPH+ IGC students, Public Health PhD students, Medical Sciences PhD students, PhD students in social science (economics, psychology, sociology etc.), Medical Doctors, Postdocs or Professors interested in an introduction to health economics
Day 1: Key Topics in Health Economics I – demand for health and health care
Day 2: Key Topics in Health Economics II – supply of health care
Day 3: Economic evaluation/Health Technology Assessment
Day 4: Health Economics Frontier –advanced topics
Day 5: Health Economics Frontier –advanced topics Details will follow soon on each topic covered.
Délai d'inscription : 06.10.2024
Coûts
SSPH+IGC Students : 30 CHF
Postdocs from SSPH+ partner institutes : 30 CHF
External PhD students and MD students : 600 CHF
Others : 1’600 CHF
Professors:
- Michael Gerfin (Uni Bern, sggö President)
- Stefan Boes (Uni Lucerne, sggö Vice President)
- Stefan Felder (Uni Basel, sggö Secretary)
- Beatrix Eugster (Uni St. Gallen)
- Fabrizio Mazzona (Uni Lugano)
- Tobias Müller (BFH)
- Mark Pletscher (BFH)
- Matthias Schwenkglenks (Uni Basel)
- Simon Wieser (ZHAW)
- Jürgen Maurer (Uni Lausanne)
Contact
Prof. Joachim Marti, PhD / Center for Primary Care and Public Health, University of Lausanne
- Armando N. Meier, PhD / Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Basel
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