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.
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| 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 |
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» 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.