printer friendly pageBIOMEDIN 432: Analysis of Costs, Risks, and Benefits of Health Care (HRP 392)
(Same as
MGTECON 332) For graduate students. How to do cost/benefit analysis when the output is difficult or impossible to measure. How do M.B.A. analytic tools apply in health services? Literature on the principles of cost/benefit analysis applied to health care. Critical review of actual studies. Emphasis is on the art of practical application.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Owens, D. (PI)
;
Goldhaber-Fiebert, J. (SI)
HRP 392: Analysis of Costs, Risks, and Benefits of Health Care (BIOMEDIN 432)
(Same as
MGTECON 332) For graduate students. How to do cost/benefit analysis when the output is difficult or impossible to measure. How do M.B.A. analytic tools apply in health services? Literature on the principles of cost/benefit analysis applied to health care. Critical review of actual studies. Emphasis is on the art of practical application.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Owens, D. (PI)
;
Goldhaber-Fiebert, J. (SI)
MGTECON 332: Analysis of Costs, Risks, and Benefits of Health Care
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.
Last offered: Autumn 2014
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