Hons Health semester II 2005

Outline TBA

• What is health econ all about (webcast of topics)?
• Welfare economics, welfare measurement general approach (under uncterttainty, second best ideas
  • general approach (under uncterttainty, second best ideas
  • Arrow Lind
  • Graham and option value value of information ideas (partial and general equilib)
  • Shmalensee and option value
  • 2nd best Boadway
  • option value in cost benefit analysis book...
  • basic ideas boadway and bruce..
  • QALY measurement and concepts; QALY critique
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WIKI stuff - project(s) - students identify and track their own inputs/contributions to the finalk result - weekly? assessment (ABC Fail) based on these reports....and final product [ meninogoccal and obesity and reference pricing/reimbursement policies))

health output measurement (triplett articles- one each from students -students present, write...)

Clinical Trials

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• OTA The Impact of randomized clinical trials on health policy and medical practise (972 kb PDF) trials on

EBM and scientific infrenece and

• p-values and hypothesis tests (2 papers) + that article on the significance test ritual....?
• value of experiemtns (general bernardo amd specifically Frank and j deeley)
• OTa on clinical trials BMJ symposia (students summarize parts) + meldrum plus susan B??

CBA under uncertainty

• Arrow Lind
• Graham and option value
• Shmalensee and option value
• 2nd best Boadway
• option value in cost benefit analysis book...
• basic ideas boadway and bruce..

QUALYS and EU (theory stuff) and measurement of health outcomes/benefits (value of innovation stuff)

economic epidemiology

• philpson disease eradication
• philipson handbook of health econ

Vaccines (chapters for students to present) and menignitis vacc in NZ (analysis discussion report writing)

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Graham book on risk tradeoffs (chapters for students to present)

Obesity