Campus
Birmingham (Edgbaston)
Course overview
This five day course will equip you with an in-depth knowledge of economic evaluation, with a focus on development, extension and application of the main issues and techniques.
This course is designed to go beyond the first principles of economic evaluation. Its focus is the development, extension and application of the main issues and techniques for economic evaluation.
The material covered by the course includes an in-depth coverage of the components of economic evaluation, such as cost data collection and analysis, outcome data analysis, health state valuation in general, economic evaluation alongside clinical trials and discounting issues. Alternative methods for economic evaluation and the relevant frameworks will be discussed with case studies and policy applications.
This course is taken directly from the Health Economics and Health Policy Postgraduate Degree Programme.
Course delivery
The course includes a half day's inter-active practical session in which 'hands-on' application and analysis of alternative modelling approaches used in economic evaluation will be demonstrated with full discussion of the advantages and appropriateness of the alternative techniques.
All concepts are consolidated in the group exercise on critical appraisal where each group appraises a published economic evaluation and presents the findings to their fellow students.
On completion you should be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of the relevant issues associated with the appropriate collection and analysis of cost and outcome data.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of discounting issues and the controversy surrounding the appropriate discount rate to use for costs and benefits within an economic evaluation.
- Critically appraise a number of alternative frameworks and modelling approaches that are used in economic evaluation and understand the appropriate presentation of results.
- Critically review alternative methods to outcome evaluation and their relevance to alternative evaluation approaches.
- Critically appraise published economic evaluations.
- Recognise the policy implications that may result from economic evaluations.
Outline
Monday: Key concepts; evaluative spaces; economic evaluation alongside clinical trials.
Tuesday: Cost data collection and analysis; discounting; introduction to bootstrapping; analysis of survival and quality of life data.
Wednesday: Practical modelling session: probabilistic sensitivity analysis and cost-effectiveness acceptability curves; valuing the broader benefits of health care.
Thursday: Systematic review of economic evaluations; missing data analysis; informal care and economic evaluation; critical appraisal of economic evaluation papers (group preparation).
Friday: Critical appraisal of economic evaluation papers (group presentations); economic evaluation, decision making and health policy.
Attendance required
1 block week of teaching
Course dates
24th - 28th November 2025
Teaching staff
Professor Louise J Jackson
Professor of Health Economics and Health Policy
Staff profile for Professor Louise Jackson who is an Professor in Health Economics Unit at the University of Birmingham
Dr Luiz Flavio Andrade
Research Fellow - Health Economics
Staff profile of Dr Luiz Flavio Andrade, Department of Applied Health Sciences, University of Birmingham.
Entry requirements
You'll need to have completed the Introduction to Health Economics module or have previous knowledge equivalent to that obtained in the Introduction to Health Economics module.
All applicants will be required to discuss eligibility with the Course Director at the time of applying.
For enquiries about applying for this course please contact cmhcpdenquiries@contacts.bham.ac.uk
Fees and scholarships
2024 fees
- Standard Fee = £1,170
- Industry Fee = £1,599
Application process
Registration will open once new dates are confirmed. In the meantime, please contact cmhcpdenquiries@contacts.bham.ac.uk to express your interest.
The courses have minimum required attendance levels and the University reserves the right to cancel or postpone the course if the minimum required number of delegates has not been achieved for the course.
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