Economic Evaluation for Global Health Course- University of Washington Global Health Depart
Providing
Institution: University of Washington, Department of Global Health
Instructor: Dr. Joseph Babigumira, PhD,
MSc, MBChB, Associate Professor, Global Health
Adjunct Associate Professor, Pharmacy
Adjunct Associate Professor, Pharmacy
Course Timeline
Starting: 6th July 2020 – 13th
Sept. 2020; 11 weeks, 6-9 hours of learning 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.
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 00252-65-9417945 with preferable in WattsApp
texting or drop an E-mail to drdualeh@hesma.or.ke
Visit our website: https://edgh.washington.edu/courses/economic-evaluation-global-health
PS: There are two other courses which we will host this summer, 1) Project Management in Health course and 2) Monitoring and Evaluation in Global Health course
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