Health Economics Summer School 2007
Program Time Schedule Part A
Current Concepts, September 24–25, 2007
Monday, September 24th
11:00 International context
- International health care systems
- International health care reforms
- Principles of economic thinking
12:30 Lunch Break
14:00 Cost analysis
- Theory of costing
- Practice of costing
- Cost-of-illness studies
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 Cost-effectiveness analysis
- Incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs)
- Cost-utility analysis
- Quality-adjusted life years (QALYs)
- ICER benchmarks and interpretation
- Net health benefits
17:30 Supper Break
20:00 Expected utility theory
- Axioms and application
- Standard gamble technique
- Time trade-off technique
Exercise
- Quantifying quality of life
- Utility measurement
Tuesday, September 25th
9:00 Modeling techniques
- Modeling - an unavoidable fact of life
- Decision tree models
- Markov models
- Sensitivity analysis I
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Advanced modeling techniques
- Sensitivity analysis II
- Monte Carlo simulation
- Non-parametric bootstrapping
- Cost-effectiveness acceptability curves (CEACs)
- International guidelines
12:30 Lunch Break
