PHA734 Advanced Pharmacoeconomics

[3–0, 3 cr.]

This course equips students with analytical tools necessary to understand the economic aspects of healthcare systems. It provides key concepts in the discipline of pharmacoeconomics (PE) and health economics (HE) to facilitate the translation of PE information for healthcare decision-makers in developing policies and guidelines. The course includes elements related to concepts of PE and HE role in healthcare decision-making, PE models utilization, Budget Impact Analysis (BIA) and pricing/ reimbursement policies. It takes into account willingness to pay threshold along with the economic, clinical and humanity outcomes in a society, which is of high priority due to growth in healthcare expenditure leading to changes in policies and practices.