Universität Wien

040760 UK Health- and Pharmaceutical Economics (BA) (2021S)

Track in Competition and Regulation

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 4 - Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Continuous assessment of course work
MIXED

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 30 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Hybride Lehrveranstaltung

Friday 26.03. 13:15 - 18:15 Digital
Saturday 27.03. 09:45 - 13:00 Digital
Friday 07.05. 13:15 - 18:15 Hybride Lehre
Hörsaal 13 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Saturday 08.05. 09:45 - 13:00 Hybride Lehre
Hörsaal 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
Friday 04.06. 13:15 - 18:15 Hybride Lehre
Hörsaal 13 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Saturday 05.06. 09:45 - 11:15 Hybride Lehre
Hörsaal 4 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

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)

Assessment and permitted materials

Assigned Presentation (15 -20 Min)
Written final Exam

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Presentation and exam both contribute 50% to final grade.
To achieve a positive grade in the test, at least 50% of the points in the written test are necessary

Examination topics

Reading list


Association in the course directory

Last modified: Fr 12.05.2023 00:13