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Postgraduate Diploma in Health Economics and Evaluation

Course code: 0967 + Course abbreviation: PostgradDipHlthEcEv + Total credit points required: 48 + 2 semesters full-time, 4 semesters part-time

Study mode and course location

On-campus (Clayton)

Course description

This course is designed to provide students who already possess a basic degree in economics with the skills necessary to pursue a future career as academic or policy-oriented economists, as administrators in the health sector or as health-care evaluators. It introduces economists to the basic concepts of epidemiology and bioethics and trains participants in research methods by having them undertake a project during their placement at an approved institution.

Course structure

The postgraduate diploma consists of four compulsory and three elective units plus a three-month placement (normally during the summer semester). The placement must be conducted at an institution acceptable to the course coordinator at the university. During placement, a student is expected to complete an applied project under the direction of a supervisor. The project constitutes part of the formal assessment and must be completed by March of the year following enrolment.

(a) Students must complete four core units (24 points):

  • ECC4650 Microeconomics
  • ECC4870 Health economics
  • ECC4990 Economic evaluation of health services
  • MPH1040 Introduction to epidemiology (6 points)

(b) Students must complete three units (18 points) from the following list:

Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics
Department of Economics
  • ECC4000 Reading unit in applied health economics
  • ECC4270 Law and economics
  • ECC4660 Macroeconomics
  • ECC4700 Restrictive trade practices
  • ECC4790 Cost-benefit analysis
  • ECC4810 Public finance
  • ECC4830 Welfare economics
  • ECC4840 Economics of industry, institution and organisation
Department of Business Law and Taxation
  • BTX9300 Health services law
Centre for Human Bioethics
  • CHB5102 Questions of life and death
  • CHB5203 Ethical issues in patient care

(c) Students must complete one industry-based learning unit (6 points):

  • ECC5710 Health industry-based learning

Articulation

Students who successfully complete the Postgraduate Diploma in Health Economics and Evaluation with an average of 70 per cent or above may consider applying for the Master of Philosophy.

Contact details

Course director

Associate Professor Anthony Harris

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