040760 UK Health- and Pharmaceutical Economics (BA) (2018S)

Part 1: Health Care Systems
• Forms of Delivery of Medical Care
• Paying Providers
• Physicians as Suppliers of Medical Services
• Austrian Health Care System
Literature:
Breyer, F./Zweifel, P. Kifmann, M (2013), Gesundheitsökonomik, Springer. (Chapters 8, 10, 12)

Part 2: Health Economic Evaluation
• Health Technology Assessment (HTA) across countries
• Cost Effectiveness analysis
• Cost utility analysis
• Cost benefit analysis
• Comparative effectiveness
• Decision analytic modeling (e.g. Markov Models)
• Evidenced based Medicine
Literature:
Drummond, M/Sculpher, M./Torrance, G./O’Brien, B./Stoddart, G. (2015), Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes, Oxford University Press (Chapters 5, 6, 7, 9)
Additional reading:
Schöffski, O. Graf v.d. Schulenburg, M. (Hg.) (2008), Gesundheitsökonomische Evaluationen, Springer.

Part 3 Pharmaceutical Economics
• The pharmaceutical Industry
• Pharmaceutical R&D process
• Costs and returns on pharmaceutical R&D
• Pricing Pharmaceuticals
• Pharmaceutical Regulation (e.g. patent legislation)
• Drug Marketing

Literature:
Schweitzer, S. (2007), Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy, Oxford University Press. (Chapters 1, 4, 6, 8, 12)