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For graduate students, and with permission of instructors, advanced undergraduates. This course provides the conceptual basis for understanding how to assess the effectiveness, costs, and cost effectiveness of health-care interventions. Students will gain an understanding of how to assess whether health-care interventions work, and if they work, whether they are worth what they cost. The course will cover principal evaluative techniques for health care, including, cost-effectiveness analysis, cost-benefit analysis, utility assessment, and decision analysis. Emphasis is on the practical application of these techniques. Group project presented at end of quarter. Guest lectures by experts from the medical school, entrepreneurs, pharmaceutical industry, and health care plans. The course content is relevant to researchers in health services and health policy, health-care managers, entrepreneurs, health-care consultants, and physicians.