PREV 707 COST EFFECTIVENESS IN PREVENTION AND TEATMENT
A 3-semester hour graduate course for masters and doctoral students in the health sciences. This course is a component in the core methods for public health sciences, especially focusing on the preventive measures in healthcare. Cost-effectiveness analysis is an integral part of the design and development of interventions, so that optimal decisions can be made in selecting the alternative to be implemented. Additionally, the evaluation of outcomes should include an empirical cost-effectiveness analysis to improve the body of knowledge available to future work. These techniques are also applied in randomized clinical trials. This course examines principles and techniques of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (CEA) in healthcare from a prevention perspective. Participants learn key elements of the economist's analysis of costs and effect, in order to achieve a comparative and incremental cost-effectiveness analysis. Student projects design and conduct a hypothetical and empirical CEA. Prerequisites: PREV 600, PREV 720 or the equivalent.
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