Health Economics & Policy
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Become a future proof Health Policy Analyst
What is this track?
This track is designed to give the ability to leverage essential theoretical frameworks and real-world data, enhancing decision-making and operational efficiency within the health care sector nationallly and internationally.
You’ll learn to answer questions like:
- Which policies can successfully prevent inequalities in health?
- How should we plan for the future ageing populations occurring in many nations?
- Is intervention one better than intervention two in reducing out-of-pocket payment on utilization of care?
- Government and health care leaders need to tackle complicated issues with limited resources. In this track, we will provide you with the essential quantitative tools to become a critical consumer of empirical evidence. This will make you attractive to a wide range of organizations, but will also enable you to develop your own skills as a leader, employee and researcher.
Jonas Minet Kinge
University of Oslo
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ELISABETTA DE CAO
University of Bologna
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“You will become a critical observer of empirical evidence to be able to judge the quality of health policies and programs.”
Elisabetta De Cao, Track Coordinator
Track Benefits
In this track, we equip you with the essential tools neccesary for evaluating health policies and interventions. You will master health economic theoretical models and their application to real world scenarios. Additionally, you will become familiar with various health data types, and you will learn how to use and analyse real-world data with the use of statistical softwares such as Stata or R. This will enable you to critcally interprete empirical evidence by identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the research design of social research.
Graduates of this track now work in both the private and public sectors, including hospitals, health insurers, academia, pharmaceutical companies, consultancies, or governmental decision-making bodies.
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
- Paying Providers of Health Care (5 ECTs)
- Demand for health and health insurance (5 ECTs)
- Applied Micro Econometrics (10 ECTs)
- Elective (10 ECTs)
SEMESTER 3 — UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA
- Planning and Evaluation of Health Policies (5 ECTs)
- Law & Economics of Pharmaceuticals (5 ECTs)
- Workshop: Building Empirical Cases Studies in Health Economics OR Intership (5 ECTs)
- Elective (10 ECTs)
SEMESTER 4 — ONE OF THE UNIVERSITIES IN THE TRACK
- Thesis
“The skillset acquired through this track is in high demand across both the public and private sectors”
Jonas Minet Kinge, Track Coordinator
Enjoy the best of Oslo and Bologna
This track is a partnership between the University of Bologna (1st & 3rd semester) and the University of Oslo (2nd semester). The department of economics of the University of Bologna is the top public department of economics in Italy. You will learn from the best scholars working on health economics, while the Department of Health Management & Health Economics the Univeristy of Oslo is strong multi-disciplinary research community which includes economists, political scientists, and physicians. You will enjoy top academic education in two fantastic, and very diverse European cities. Both with dynamic healthcare sectors and high-quality living standards. Plus it is always fun to be back at a place where you have already studied (Bologna).
Check out the other tracks
Economic Evaluation in Healthcare
MANAGEMENT OF HEALTHCARE INSTITUTIONS
Population Health Management
Act now
Are you ready to embark on a transformative journey in health economics, policy analysis, and technology assessment?
Management of Health Care Institutions
Economic Evaluation in Healthcare
Population Health Management
