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Economic Analysis and Evaluation in Healthcare (1 º Sem 2019/2020)

Code: 03474
Acronym: 03474
Level: 2nd Cycle
Basic: Yes
Teaching Language(s): Portuguese
Friendly languages:
Be English-friendly or any other language-friendly means that UC is taught in a language but can either of the following conditions:
1. There are support materials in English / other language;
2. There are exercises, tests and exams in English / other language;
3. There is a possibility to present written or oral work in English / other language.
1 6.0 15.0 h/sem 15.0 h/sem 0.0 h/sem 0.0 h/sem 0.0 h/sem 0.0 h/sem 1.0 h/sem 31.0 h/sem 119.0 h/sem 0.0 h/sem 150.0 h/sem
Since year 2019/2020
Pre-requisites -
Objectives By the end of the unit, the student should be able to know the main questions in health economics.
Program 1. Introduction to Economic Analysis in Health Care
2. Production and Costs of Health Care
3. Supply of Health Care. Performance and efficiency.
4. Markets, Market Failure and the Role of Government in Health Care
5. Health Insurance and Health Care Financing
6. Equity
7. Principles of Economic Evaluation in Health Care
8. Measuring and Valuing Health Care Output
9. Economic Evaluation Methods
10. The Use of Economic Evaluation in Decision Making
Evaluation Method Notwithstanding with strict compliance to the program regulation, continuous evaluation system requires a minimal presence in 60% of the classes time and includes the accomplishment of:
- A group work , with a weighting of 35%;
- An individual test, with a weighting of 65% and a minimum score of 7,5 points.
If the participant choses the 2nd phase it corresponds to a final exam that will represent 100% of the final score. In this case it will not be considered the continuous evaluation result.
Teaching Method Aulas teóricas expositivas; aulas teórico-práticas. Lectures; theoretical and practical classes.
Observations -
Basic Bibliographic Morris, S., N. Devlin, D. Parkin e A. Spencer (2012), Economic Analysis in Health Care, John Wiley&Sons.
Folland, S, A. Goodman e M. Stano (2017), The Economics of Health and Health Care, 8th ed., Routledge.
Complementar Bibliographic Drumond, M. e M. Sculpher (2015), Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes, Oxford University Press.