This is a 3-day course run by Melbourne Health Economics within the Centre for Health Policy at the University of Melbourne. It aims  to familiarise participants with the fundamental theories as well as computer-based methods and techniques that are routinely used in economic evaluation with an emphasis on cost-effectiveness and cost-utility analyses. Economic evaluation has been widely used to assess new health care interventions and technologies and inform decisions about which interventions should be subsidized from available funds. In Australia, for a drug or a medical device to be listed on the PBS or MBS, economic evaluation is required to determine whether it represents value for money.

 

This computer-based course will cover the analytic steps in an economic evaluation, from methods for analysing cost and outcome data, developing decision analytic and Markov models, conducting sensitivity analyses and reporting and interpreting the results.

 

Who is this course designed for?

The course is designed for those who are or will be engaged in undertaking health economic evaluation, as well as those who need a more detailed understanding of the current analytic methods of health economic evaluation. These include researchers, clinicians, health care professionals, consultants and those assessing economic evaluations from public, commercial and academic organisations.