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

Area:

Centre for International Health

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

10.0

** 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 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 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