Providing
Institution: University of Washington, Department of Global Health
Course
dates/hours: July 1 – September 08, 2019, 10 weeks, 6-9 hours per week
Overview
In Economic
Evaluation for Global Health, you’ll find out how to evaluate health
interventions for programs in low- and middle-income countries in terms of
costs and outcomes through a series of cost analyses. Learn how to estimate
healthcare costs, measure health outcomes, and interpret different types of
economic evaluations (including cost minimization analysis, cost-effectiveness
analysis, cost-utility analysis, and cost-benefit analysis).
In this course,
you’ll also learn about modeling methods and analysis tools to help you make
economically sound healthcare decisions.
This course is
appropriate for health care and public health professionals who want a better
understanding of the tools, approaches, and applications of economic
evaluation.
Syllabus
The primary learning objectives of the course are:
o To equip students with the knowledge and skills to read and
critically analyze a scientific journal article in the field of health economic
evaluation in global health.
o To enable students to participate as knowledgeable contributors to
policy discussions involving health economic evaluations and the allocation of
scarce healthcare resources.
o To enable students to participate in the design and conduct of
health economic evaluations in global health in collaboration with health
economics and health policy experts.
You will meet the objectives listed above through a combination of
the following activities in this course:
§ Listening to online lectures
§ Completing the required and suggested readings
§ Completing the course project
§ Participating in discussion forms
Unit 1—Introduction to economic evaluation in health care
o Rationale for economic evaluation in health care
o Theoretical foundations and definition of value in health care
o Different methods of economic evaluation
Unit 2—The Incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER)
o
Introduction to
the ICER
o
The
cost-effectiveness plane
o
Decision rules
Unit 3—Numerator – measuring costs for economic evaluation in
healthcare
o
Definition of
costs
o
Different cost
categories
o
Cost estimation
Unit 4—Burden of disease and cost of illness
o
Introduction
o
Prevalence and
incidence base methods
o
Analytic
methods
Unit 5—Denominator—measuring health outcomes for economic
evaluation
o
Introduction to
patient reported outcomes and preference elicitation
o
QALYs and DALYs
o
Multi-attribute
utility instruments
Unit 6—Decision analytic modeling
o
Introduction to
decision analysis
o
Examples on
paper and in MS Excel
o
Sensitivity
analysis
Unit 7—Markov Modeling
o
Introduction
and rationale for Markov modeling
o
Examples on
paper and in MS Excel
o
Special
adaptations
Unit 8—Introduction to health technology assessment (HTA)
o
Health care
systems and universal healthcare
o
Methods of HTA
o
HTA in low- and
middle-income countries
Unit 9—Special aspects of health economic evaluation in low- and
middle-income countries
o
Adapting to
extreme resource constraints
o
Methodological
issues
o
Economics of
vaccines
Unit 10—Special topics
o
Budget impact
analysis
o
Extended
cost-effectiveness analysis
o
Comparative
effectiveness research
Format:
Learning Methodology
This online
graduate-level course has video lectures, readings, discussion forums, quizzes,
and assignments. During the site meetings, the group will review the materials
and the Site Coordinator will facilitate guided questions for the group.
Where a site should be primarily people in the same geographic location, some
organizations/sites include a few additional participants who work remotely and
have found other methods to “meet” by using video conferencing software like
Adobe Connect, Skype and Zoom. Other sites create WhatsApp groups to distribute
local resources and information, to connect, share ideas and help one another.
You can
participate in this course as an independent participant or as part of a site
with five or more people. We encourage participation as a group because it
provides a forum for discussing course concepts and applying them to the local
setting and customs. If you can’t join a group, the discussion boards can
provide that forum.
The course is taught in English,
participants should be comfortable with written and spoken English.
Eligibility
To be admitted,
you must have a diploma in health related field or in the social science.
The course is
most useful for health care professionals and public health specialists who
have some experience in management and who wish to enhance their skills working
with people and other organizational resources. The course is less well suited
to individuals in entry-level positions in the workforce.
Certification
For those who
are successfully completed the course will receive a formal printed Certificate
of Completion on vellum paper with University of Washington seal mailed to them.
We will ship them all together to your Site Coordinator.
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| Sample of certificate of completion to be awarded to successful participants |
More
information
You can contact
Dr. Mohamed Y.
Dualeh, Somalia’s site coordinator for further details and guidance for
your enrollment process in this phone number 00252-63-4417945 with preferable
in WattsApp texting or drop an E-mail to drdualeh@hesma.or.ke
