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 Health Economics Specialisations


In the Master of Health Economics and Master of Health Economics (Advanced) programs, students may choose to specialise, completing 8 units (4 courses) from the nominated specialisation course list.

» Economic Evaluation

Relevant for those wishing to acquire specialised techniques of economic evaluation of health care interventions. In particular, students will learn the advantages and disadvantages associated with cost-effectiveness, cost-utility and cost-benefit analysis.

ECON7740 Benefit/Cost Analysis & Project Evaluation A
ECON7750 Benefit/Cost Analysis & Project Evaluation B
ECON7810 Economic Evaluation and Health
PUBH7021 Evaluation in Public Health
PUBH7616 Burden of Disease Methods
PUBH7617 Pharmacoeconomics
PUBH7618 Cost Effectiveness in Health Medicine

» Health and Development

Focuses on the interrelationships between health interventions and economic and social development. Themes covered include demographic, epidemiological, and nutritional transitions and the social, economic and cultural components of development and poverty and their specific interactions with disease and fertility. Students also gain an understanding of the determinants of health and disease, and health improvement in the international context; and the organisations working in international health and their strengths and weaknesses.

ECON7500 Asia-Pacific Development
ECON7510 Economic Development
ECON7840 Health & Economic Development
PUBH7014 Health Policy and Financing
PUBH7100 International Disease Control Priorities
PUBH7113 Health and Development
PUBH7115 Mortality Analysis
PUBH7614 Health Systems Organisation & Management
PUBH7645 International Health Policy