Summer School: Inequality and Inequity in Health and Healthcare

Unisanté offers a course aimed at international PhD students or postdocs, as well as professionals interested in inequality and inequity in health and healthcare. Part of UNIL's Summer School program, the course is given in English.

Health differs markedly by education, race, occupation and income. In high-income countries, a 30-year-old male college graduate can expect to live almost eight years longer than a contemporary with only compulsory schooling. 

Narrowing such socioeconomic disparities in health is a primary objective of public health. Within health systems, administrators are often expected to ensure care is delivered equitably and yet health economic evaluation and population health monitoring often neglects distributional objectives.

This course will arm you with tools to measure inequality and inequity in health and healthcare. In addition to gaining competence in the computation of health inequality indices, you will be forced to consider the normative implications of the measures. 

You will be introduced to analysis of equity in the distribution of health care. You will also learn how the tools of health inequality measurement can be used to make cost-effectiveness analysis and population health measurement sensitive to equity objectives.

When?

28 April - 2 May 2025

Where?

UNIL campus, Switzerland

For whom?

International PhD students or postdocs in Economics, health economics, public health, epidemiology, health informatics, biostatistics, political sciences, decision science. Limited places for professionals

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