308954 (v.1) Priority Setting and Equity in Aboriginal Health 501

Area:

Centre for International Health

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

4.0

** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **

Individual Study:

1 x 4 Hours Weekly

Prerequisite(s):

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

Syllabus:

Program budgeting and marginal analysis. QALY league tables. Needs assessment. Burden of illness. 'Goals and Targets'. New Zealand 'Core Services'. Resource allocation formulae and other approaches both conceptual and applied to equity of resource allocation. Claims, rights and needs in allocative efficiency and in equity. Ethics of resource allocation. Communitarian claims and Aboriginal resource allocation. Funding formula based on capacity to benefit weighted for vertical equity. Resource allocation between Aboriginal and non Aboriginal health care.

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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 External	refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central External	refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially Online Internal	refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully Online	refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External