Introduction to Health Economic Evaluations

Go Back

This course is designed to teach health care professionals, industry executives and new researchers how to incorporate health economics/pharmacoeconomics into the development of innovations in health care. Participants will review the basic principles and concepts of health economic evaluations, and discuss how to collect and calculate data on costs and effects of different alternatives. Both modeling techniques and prospective health economic evaluations are discussed. Special attention is moreover given to specific issues such as uncertainty analyses, discounting, perspective of the analysis, and to how health economic evaluations are important within the entire life cycle of health innovations....