HMM4301 - Spring 2008

Teaching plan

Date	Teacher	Place	Topic	Lecture notes / comments
21.01.2008	Eline Aas	Forskningsveien 2B, 09.15-14.00	Introduction. Overview of the methodologies; CBA vs CEA. Efficiency; markets and market failures	The welfare economics of CBA. Opportunity costs of using scarce resources that have alternative use. Consumers are the best judges of own welfare – benefits expressed in WTP. The key difference between CBA and CEA Readings; Drum.: Ch 2 D&O: Ch 2, 4.1 Stiglitz and Walsh
25.01.2008	Eline Aas	Seminarrom 1 Harald Schjelderups hus 09:15 -14:00	Costs in economic evaluation. Private vs social costs	Major cost components; health care and resources outside the health service. Sloan: Ch 4 Drum: Ch 4 D&O: Ch 2, 4.1, 7.4 Garber and Phelps, JHE 1997 Johannesson and Meltzer, HE, 1998 Meltzer, JHE, 1997 Brower, Koopmanschap, JHE, 2000
04.02.2008	Eline Aas	Forskningsveien 2B, 09.15-14.00	Time costs Production gains and losses Discounting	The estimation of lost productive time and leisure time. Biases in the estimation of production losses as a cost item, and production gains as a benefit item (subtracted in the estimation of ‘net costs’).The net present value; time preferences and discounting Drum.: Ch 4, D&O: Ch 7.4,7.5 Koopmanschap, Rutten, Ineveld and Roijen Olsen JA, Richardson J. Soc Sci Med, 1999
08.02.2008	Jan Abel Olsen	Seminarrom 1 Harald Schjelderups hus, 09.15-14.00	CEA/CUA – valuing benefits/ outcomes in health terms. QALYs	The QALY-algorithm. Descriptive systems for health states. Valuing health states (SG, TTO, VAS). Discounting future health gains. QALYs vs DALYs. Key methodological problems in eliciting preferences for health. Drum.: Ch 5,6, D&O: Ch 7.3 Lloyd AJ HE 2003.
11.02.2008	Jan Abel Olsen	Forskningsveien 2B, 09:15 -14:00	CBA – valuing benefits/outcomes in money terms; WTP.	Designing a WTP-survey of health: how should who be asked to value what? Empirical evidence re methodological problems. Normative issues: WTP depends on income, individual vs social value. Drum.: Ch 7 D&O: Ch 7.2 Olsen JA, Donaldson C, Pereira J., Journal of Economic Psychology, 2004
18.02.2008	Ivar S. Kristiansen	Forskningsveien 2B, 09:15 -14:00	Applied CEA. Translating end-points used in clinical trials to CEA/CUA type units	Translate medical information into data used in decision analysis Readings; Drummond chapters 5+6+8 Hunink Ch. 1-4 & 8+9
22.02.2008	Ivar S. Kristiansen	Seminarrom 1 Harald Schjelderups hus 08:15 -12:00	Modelling. From risk-reductions to increased life-time and/or improved health status	Translate medical information into a decision tree and apply the information to the tree. A basic understanding of Markov models Readings; Drummond chapter 9 Hunink chapter 9-11 Two papers by Kristiansen and Gyrd-Hansen (2004, 2006)
29.02.2008	Ivar S. Kristiansen	Seminarrom 1, Harald Schjeldrups hus, 09:15 -14:00	Modelling II: computer exercise	Use skills from the previous two sessions and translate into a computer programme. Readings; Same as two previous sessions + Treeage Manual ch 1+2+5
03.03.2008	Eline Aas	Forskningsveien 2B, 09.15-14.00	ICER, Sensitivity analyses, deterministic and probabilistic.	Understand the meaning of ICER (advantages and limitations). The need for sensitivity analysis, why and how. Have knowledge about: one- and two-ways sensitivity analysis; the bootstrap method, tornado diagram; and probabilistic sensitivity analysis. Readings; Drum.: Ch 8 Notes from lecture
10.03.2008	Jan Abel Olsen	Seminarrom 6, Harald Schjeldrups Hus, 09.15-14.00	Efficiency vs equity; fair distributions. The application of CEA and CBA in health policy; guidelines.	Trade-offs between max health and equality in health. Equality in different health streams: the importance of severity and age. What makes some inequalities fair, the degree and the reasons. Health economics guidelines in some countries. Readings; D&O: Ch 3, 4.6, 8 Dolan P, Olsen JA. Equity in health: the importance of different health streams, Journal of Health Economics, 2001; 20: 823-834
28.03.2008		To be announced	Written Exam	Written Exam

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