Section outline
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More information may appear later
Course Instructors
Philippe Beutels, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Lander Willem, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Course contents:
● Basic concepts of health economics and economic evaluation
● Cost and outcome estimation (incl quality of life)
● Cost-effectiveness analysis with applications
● Time preference (discounting)
● Model choice
● Uncertainty (incl value of information analysis)
● Infectious disease and vaccine specific issues (incl broader economic impacts, pandemics, eradication)
● Policy making
● Hands-on exercises in R
Key words:
Cost-effectiveness, Probabilistic Sensitivity Analysis, Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALY), Vaccination policy
Time and Place
All lectures take place at Stockholm University in Campus Albano, house 1, level 2. See "Registration and Venue" page for further details.
Lecture times (includes also problem solving, tutorials, computer sessions, ...):
Wednesday June 24: 14.00-15.30, 16.00-17.30
Thursday June 25: 9.00-10.30, 11.00-12.30, 14.00-15.30, 16.00-17.30
Friday June 26: 9.00-10.30, 11.00-12.30, 14.00-15.30, 16.00-17.30
General prerequisites
It is expected that course participants have basic knowledge of statistics and mathematics and rudimentary knowledge of infectious disease epidemiology. It is also expected that participants have basic computer software knowledge and preferably are familiar with the software R.
IMPORTANT: All participants are expected to bring a laptop with R installed on it.
Additional prerequisites for this course
Relevant literature
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(08)70258-5/fulltext
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12916-015-0446-9
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0272989X211045070
https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/329389/WHO-IVB-19.10-eng.pdf