📖 Course Overview
This certificate program in Global Health Economy provides students with comprehensive theoretical and applied training in the economic analysis of health systems and global health challenges. The program introduces the foundational principles of health economics and explores how economic reasoning is used to understand health behaviors, design and finance health systems, evaluate health interventions, and guide policy and resource allocation decisions in diverse global contexts.
🔑 Key Topics Covered
Economic principles applied to health, health care markets, market failures, and the role of public intervention
Health-seeking behavior, provider incentives, moral hazard, adverse selection, insurance, and behavioral economics
Comparative health system organization, financing mechanisms, provider payment systems, financial protection
Cost identification and valuation, burden of disease, quality of life measures, QALYs and DALYs
Cost-effectiveness, cost-utility, cost-benefit analysis, incremental analysis
Efficiency and equity, budget constraints, priority-setting frameworks, and ethical challenges
Decision trees, Markov models, microsimulation, sensitivity analysis, and modeling software
Critical appraisal of studies, ethical dimensions, policy briefs, and communication of evidence
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