Economic Evaluation in Global Health
Certificate Description
- Online
- 10 Weeks
- Certified by University Of Washington
Find out how to evaluate health interventions for programs in low- and middle-income countries in terms of costs and outcomes through a series of cost analyses. Learn how to estimate healthcare costs, measure health outcomes, and interpret different types of economic evaluations (including cost-minimization analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, cost-utility analysis, and cost-benefit analysis). In this course, you’ll also learn about modeling methods and analysis tools to help you make economically sound healthcare decisions.This course is appropriate for health care and public health professionals who want a better understanding of the tools, approaches, and applications of economic evaluation.
This Certificate is well suited for :
- Health administrative Professionals
- Healthcare Professionals
- Students in Health
- Researchers in Health
Certificate Syllabus
- Introduction and rationale for economic evaluations for health interventions
- Methods for conducting economic evaluations
- The Numerator: Identifying and measuring costs for economic evaluations
- Examples of costing analyses in global health
- The Denominator: Estimating health benefits for economic evaluations
- Decision analysis and introduction to modeling
- Markov and Microsimulation Models
- Dynamic Models
- Guidelines for reporting health economic evaluations and special topics
- Budget Impact Analysis