Unit name | Public Health Economics |
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Unit code | SPOLM0060 |
Credit points | 15 |
Level of study | M/7 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
Unit director | Professor. Russ Jago |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | School for Policy Studies |
Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences and Law |
The unit content includes:
Whilst studying Public Health Economics masters level module, you will be able to:
Learning outcomes:
At the end of this module students should be able to:-
Organisation of Experience. Students will participate in interactive lectures and workshops together providing a cohort with different experiences to draw on, so a key learning strategy will be to enable students to learn from each other about key aspects of public health economics.
Students’ can keep a reflective diary of observations for each session connected with scheduled and independent learning through the VLE. It is expected that for each hour spent in workshops students will spend two hours in independent learning for their project assignment. All sessions will be recorded using Panopto technology to enable students accessibility to module at all times through the duration of the module.
Scheduled learning variety of interactive lectures and workshops.
Independent learning includes reflective diary of sessions, formative independent blended learning using reading, support materials, discussion boards and tasks in a VLE.
Write a critical appraisal of the economic evaluation of the complex public health intervention you have chosen using a critical appraisal checklist for economic evaluation. (100% of marks). The word limit is 3,000. ILOs 1-7.
Barendregt, J. (2006) Economics and Public Health: An Arranged Marriage. European Journal of Public Health. 17(2) p.124.
Bevan, G. Helderman, J. and Wilsford, D. (2010) Changing Choices in Healthcare: Implications for Equity, Efficiency and Cost. Health Economics Policy and Law, 5(3), pp. 251-267.
Chalkidou, K., Culyer, A., Naidoo, B. and Littlejohns, P. (2008) Cost-effective Public Health Guidance: Asking Questions from the Decision-maker’s Viewpoint. Health Economics. 17(3) pp. 441-448.
Kimberlee, R. (2015) What is social prescribing? Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, Volume 2, No1.
Lorgelly, P., Lawson, K., Fenwick, E., Briggs, A. (2010) Outcome Measures in Economic Evaluations of Public Health Interventions: A Role for the Capacity Approach? International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 7(5) pp.2274-2289.
Mooney, G. (2012) The Health of Nations: Towards a New Political Economy [online] London: Zedbooks. [Accessed 8 March 2013].