Economics & Policy
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Become a future proof Health Policy Analyst
The Economics & Policy specialisation trains you to become the best health policy analyst there is, to operate both on a national or international level. You will be educated in economics and quantitative methods. This enables you to inform management about alternative courses of action.
Ok… what does this mean?
You will help structuring answers to questions like:
- Shall we reimburse doctors with fee-for-service or should we salary them?
- Are people able to make informed and rational choices regarding their health?
- How do we retain high quality health services?
- How can we spur research and development of a covid vaccine and make it widely accessible?
- Should we concentrate hospital production into a few, big hospitals? Or should we decentralize it to preserve patients’ accessibility?
- Should healthcare insurance be funded by taxation?
Interesting right? Of course, we will train you to achieve the following necessary skills:
- to produce and critically assess empirical evidence
- to measure and test several alternative explanations
- to inform management about the design, implementation and evaluation of certain courses of action
- to provide fundamental insights to inform rational decision making and policy development
By combining economics and quantitative methods, you will be able to inform decision makers both in public and in private realms on a micro and macro level.
Jonas Minet Kinge
University of Oslo
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ELISABETTA DE CAO
University of Bologna
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SEMESTER 1 — UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA
- Fundamentals in Health Economics and Management (I.C.)
- Our Right to Health: Needs, Resources and Society
- Fundamentals of Quantitative Methods in Health and Healthcare (I.C.) or Quantative Methods in Health and Healthcare (I.C.)
- Health Systems or International Law and Health
Check the full course overview directly at the University of Bologna.
SEMESTER 2 — UNIVERSITY OF oslo
- Applied Micro Econometrics
- Finance and Investments or Leadership, Management and Organization
- Paying Providers of Health Care
- Elective
SEMESTER 3 — UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA
- Law & Economics of Pharmaceutical Markets
- Planning and Evaluation of Health Policies
- Elective
- Workshop: Building Empirical Case Studies in Health Economics or Intership
Check the full course overview directly at the University of Bologna.
SEMESTER 4 — ONE OF THE UNIVERSITIES IN THE TRACK
- Thesis
“I really like that this tracks gives me the academic foundations for doing research but also the hands-on knowledge I’ll need to perform valuable analysis in my current job.”
Enjoy the best of Oslo and Bologna
This track is a partnership between the University of Oslo (2nd semester) and the University of Bologna (3rd semester). You will enjoy high quality academic education in two history-rich European cities with thriving healthcare sectors.
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ECONOMIC EVALUATION
HELP GOVERNMENTS AND HEALTHCARE ORGANISATIONS TO SPEND THEIR BUDGETS WISELY
Management of Healthcare Institutions
ARE YOU THE NEW LEADER OF A HEALTHCARE INSTITUTION?
Population Health Management
TAKE ON A MANAGEMENT ROLE IN PUBLIC HEALTH
