Universität Wien

040760 UK Health- and Pharmaceutical Economics (BA) (2025S)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 4 - Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Continuous assessment of course work
Moodle
Fr 02.05. 13:15-18:15 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock

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Details

max. 30 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Friday 14.03. 13:15 - 18:15 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Saturday 15.03. 09:45 - 13:00 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Saturday 03.05. 09:45 - 13:00 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Friday 13.06. 13:15 - 18:15 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Saturday 14.06. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock

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

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Reading list

Foliensatz wird auf moodle bereitgestellt

Zusätzlich:
Breyer, F./Zweifel, P. Kifmann, M (2013), Gesundheitsökonomik, Springer. (Chapters 8, 10, 12)
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)
Schöffski, O. Graf v.d. Schulenburg, M. (Hg.) (2008), Gesundheitsökonomische Evaluationen, Springer.
Schweitzer, S. (2007), Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy, Oxford University Press. (Chapters 1, 4, 6, 8, 12)

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