308952 (v.1) Economic Evaluation in Aboriginal Health 501


Area: Centre for International Health
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 10.0
 
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Individual Study: 1 x 10 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 308951 (v.1) Aboriginal Health Economics 501
 
Syllabus: Welfare economics theory. Measuring health. An examination of the different approaches including the standard gamble, time trade off and the visual analogue scale. Appraisal of whose values to use. Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALYs). The technique of willingness to pay, its advantages and disadvantages. How to value human life. Cost effectiveness analysis. Cost utility analysis. Cost benefit analysis. Distributional concerns. Examples of economic evaluation in practice. How to accommodate an Aboriginal construct of health and what Aboriginal people want from their health services.
 
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Field of Education: 090311 Indigenous Studies
Funding Cluster: 03 - Humanities
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Categorised
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2005 Bentley Campus Study Period 10         Y
2005 Bentley Campus Study Period 3         Y
2005 Bentley Campus Study Period 5         Y
2005 Bentley Campus Study Period 8         Y
Area
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Central
External
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Partially
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Internal
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Fully
Online
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