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April 23, 2007
Applied Welfare Analysis in Health: University of Bern
Location: Bern, Switzerland
Dates: 23 April - 27 April 2007
Registration deadline: 20 March 2007
Prof. Per-Olov Johansson (Stockholm School of Economics)
Presentation: This course is designed to give students a clear understanding of the different approaches to the valuation of life and health and their relationship to standard economic theory.
Objectives: At the end of the course, participants should have acquired the following capabilities:
- Know how to design a cost-effectiveness and a cost-utility study, estimate opportunity costs that can replace observed prices whenever necessary and be able to define common outcome measures.
- Be able to understand the properties of human capital-based, cost-effectiveness, cost-utility, and cost-benefit analysis in the light of economic welfare theory.
- Understand the major properties of the open-ended and closed-ended (discrete choice) contingent valuation approach as well as of the conjoint analysis approach.
The course is part of the a series of seven modules offered as the International PhD Courses in Health Economics and Policy intended for PhD students who are wishing to enhance their specific knowledge and sharpen their capabilities in the field of health economics and policy.
