Föreläsningar och seminarier Seminar on Health Economics (spring 2025)
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This seminar will give PhD students an introduction to and an overview of what health economics is, what types of health economic analyses can be applied, how costs can be calculated, what basic models are used. Moreover, the strengths and limitations of the Quality-adjusted life year (QALY) as a widely used measure will be presented. In order to gain some insights into modelling the seminar will be complemented with hands-on sessions.
Join us for the Seminar on Health Economics. Gain insights into health economic evaluations, learn to build models and interpret results for evidence-based decision-making. The seminar is a collaboration with Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) and is held by Prof. Dr. Andreas Gerber-Grote and Dr. Christina Vetsch-Tzogiou.
Registration
Register for the seminar, no later then March 17th.
Modelling hands-on with breakout sessions:
In this part of the seminar students will get the chance to do some modelling in Excel. After a short introduction to modelling, the participants will get to work in groups on exercises under the supervision of Christina Vetsch-Tzogiou from the Winterthur Institute of Health Economics, School of Management and Law at ZHAW (Zurich University of Applied Sciences).
Aim of the activity:
At the end of the seminar, attendees should have gained a basic idea of the principles of health economic evaluations and its shortcomings. They will learn how to build certain models, conduct health economic evaluations using Excel, and interpret the subsequent results for evidence-based decision-making.
General learning outcomes:
- Demonstrate familiarity with research methodology in general and the methods of the specific field of research in particular.
- Demonstrate intellectual autonomy and disciplinary rectitude as well as the ability to make assessments of research ethics.
- Demonstrate specialized insight into the possibilities and limitations of research, its role in society and the responsibility of the individual for how it is used.
Programme
Day 1 - March 26th 2025
13:00 - 15.00 - Open Lecture: What is Health Economics and what it isn’t? Focus on forms, costs and uncertainty
Attendees will be introduced to the reason why we do health economics and will be exposed to basic concepts such as opportunity costs, forms of health economic analysis such as cost-effectiveness- or cost-benefit-analysis. Another important theoretical input will be given on discounting future benefits and costs. Furthermore, the concept of uncertainty and the methodological requirements to present uncertainty in health economic analysis will be presented.
Short Break
15.15 - 16.00 - Seminar: Introduction to reading health economic studies
Students will learn the basic requirements of a sound and reliable health economic analysis and how to assess health economic analyses as methodologically sound and rigorous. They will get the chance to apply checklists for evaluating the quality of selected papers.
16.00 - 17.00 - Breakout sessions
Students work in groups on health economic papers, using different frameworks on assessing and evaluating health economic studies.
Day 2 - March 27th 2025
09.00 - 09.45 - Reporting results from breakout sessions, asking questions
10.00 - 11.15 - Open Lecture: Quality of life and measurement of QALYs (Quality-Adjusted Life Years)
The Quality-Adjusted Life Year is an outcome measure widely used in health economics. It has some strengths but also methodological and ethical weaknesses. The students will learn about the methods how to elicit QALYs.
11.30 - 12.30 - Breakout sessions
Students work in groups on pros and cons of QALYs and ethical questions.
12.30 - 13.00 - Reporting results, asking questions
Lunch
14.00 - 15.00 - Open Lecture: Summary on health economic evaluations
A short summary of the presentations from days 1 and 2 will be provided. This will include the purpose of health economic evaluations, the types of costs analysed based on the perspective, the metric used to compare the cost-effectiveness of two or more interventions and the decision analysis process.
15.00 - 16.30 - Open Lecture: What are models?
Attendees will explore the models employed in health economic Evaluations, gaining insights into their necessity, advantages, and limitations. They will also learn about the various types of models, along with the criteria for selecting the most suitable one.
Day 3 - March 28th 2025
09.00 - 10.00 - Breakout sessions on Decision Tree Modelling
10.00 - 11.00 - Reporting results, asking questions
Short break
11.15 - 12.00 - Open Lecture: Markov Models and Excel manual for Markov trace
Attendees will gain an understanding of the structure and components of Markov models and receive brief coaching on using Excel to construct a Markov model.
12.00 - 13.00 - Breakout sessions on Markov Modelling
Lunch
14.00 - 15.00 - Reporting results, asking questions
15.00 - 15.30 - Open Lecture: Budget Impact and Health Equity Analysis
Attendees will learn about budget impact analyses, including their purpose and significance, as well as the concept of health equity in health economic.
Short break
15.45 - 16.00 - Breakout sessions on Budget Impact Analysis
16.00 - 17.00 - Reporting results, asking questions
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Andreas Gerber-Grote: andreas.gerber-grote@zhaw.ch
Dr. Christina Vetsch-Tzogiou: christina.vetsch-tzogiou@zhaw.ch