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3. Microeconomics for Health sector |
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Microeconomics course introduces the fundamentals of microeconomics. This course provides a strong foundation for economic analysis and thinking that can be used throughout other subjects and for professional careers. This course begins with an introduction to a framework for the study of consumer behavior and consumer decision analysis. Then turn the attention towards production decisions. The final section of the course provides an introduction to several advanced topics that cans be analyzed using microeconomic theory, including the effects of uncertainty on consumer behavior, general equilibrium, game theory and industry economics, asymmetric information, externalitsies, and public goods. By the end of the course, learners are able to understand the microeconomic theory at a basic level, solve basic microeconomics problems, analyze some advanced microeconomic problems, and use techniques to analyze policy related to the activity of the real economy. |
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4. Introduction to Epidemiology |
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Introduction to Epidemiology provides the concepts of cause-and-effect relationships in epidemiology, methods of prevention of noncommunicable diseases, methods of surveillance and response to infectious diseases, and methods of environmental impact evaluation on health. This course helps learners to explain the role of epidemiology in public health care, the role of epidemiology in health policy making and planning, the calculation of health measures and diseases. |
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5. Statistical techniques for health analysis |
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Theory: Concepts of probability, probability formulas, descriptive statistics; random variables, random vectors, common distributions (binomial, Poisson, normal), parameter estimation, linear regression model, logistic regression, statistical testing. Practice: Analyzing data from medical and epidemiological studies on RStudio software. |
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6. Health care quality management |
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Quality management has become a vital part of the growth of organizations by focusing on the effectiveness of management systems and customer satisfaction. The course provides learners with the principal knowledge of quality management, and its role in the sustainable development of organizations in general and the health care facilities in particular. Learners have the opportunity to study the method of quality management effectiveness in the organizations in Vietnam and other countries around the world. Moreover, learners have many opportunities to discuss and identify quality management issues in their organizations. Learners can share their knowledge and experiences on quality management. Thereby, the course helps learners having the ability to apply the knowledge to solve quality management problems, and orientate the implementation of an appropriate quality management system. |
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7. Health Administration and Management |
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The health administration and management course is one of the important courses in the public health minor. The course provides the knowledge of organization and management in the health sector to use the resources to reach the highest effectiveness which is to serve the protection and improvement of healthy citizens. |
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8. Health Economics |
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Health economics course covers a wide range of health and healthcare economics topics. This course provides the economic concepts related to health behavior, the economic models and essential economics instruments for analyses 1) efficient resource allocation for health and healthcare systems, 2) efficiency of the health care market. This course consists of 9 lectures. Learners need to read the learning materials before attending the lecture. In addition, learners will have a practical part in the manner of a case study. There are two case studies presented in the course. In each case study, learners will be introduced to the research problem and provided with data. Learners will practice how to apply theories to solve research problems. Finally, each learner have to submit a research report for two case studies which is to evaluate the course result. |
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9. Health Econometrics |
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In this course, students will study how economists use econometric models to analyze data, and in so doing, investigate the real world issues and suggest policy implications to policy makers. This course introduces the standard methods for estimating relationships between observed variables, and testing hypotheses about economic relationships based on theories. The focus will be on the estimation of econometric models, and interpretation of the estimation results. Econometric models that are widely used in journal articles and the models in healthcare management are introduced in the course. For each model, students will be introduced the uses, the implementation of the model using econometric package (RStudio), and the interpretation of the estimation results. This course also introduces participants the basics of R programming language for implementing popular econometric models, including the linear regression model, panel data models, and models with limited dependent variables. The course also gets participants familiar with matrix operations and mathematical programming, which is necessary for advanced econometric models. Lectures of this course are organized by econometric models or topics. Each lecture consists of a brief review of the econometric issues, the R packages or programming (estimation and post-estimation) skills applicable for the econometric issues with real data. |
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- Elective: Select 2 out of 8 |
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10. Human resource management for healthcare sector |
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The course introduces human resource management for the health sector. In particular, the course describes how to handle the tasks, human resource planning methods, analyze and evaluate recruitment activities, train and develop human resources in the health organization. After finalizing the course, learners are able to evaluate the results of working, examine the income structure and remuneration policies for employees. |
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11. Health project appraisal |
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The course introduces tools to evaluate the economic - financial performance of health projects in order to help make investment and financing decisions. At the end of the course, learners are equipped with the methods and skills to independently evaluate the project and can help make effective investment decisions. |
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12. Evaluation in Public Health |
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This course introduces qualitative and quantitative methods for evaluating the impact of public health projects. At the end of the course, learners are gained the knowledge and skills to have an overview of how to develop and evaluate a public health program/project in the context of incomplete information. |
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13. Economic analysis of health care policy |
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Health policy plays an important role in the optimal use of limited resources (people, time, machinery and equipment, knowledge) to achieve health goals. Besides medicine, a good health policy needs to be built on the analysis of economics, the scientific field dedicated to the issue of optimal use of finite resources. This course will focus on analyzing typical health policies from an economic perspective. Specifically, the course will focus on four groups of health policy to which economic analysis has a direct contribution: (1) health care financing, (2) health care provision, (3) health behaviors, và (4) economic valuation of health care programs. The Vietnamese health system will be a key example in this course. Analyzing a health policy from an economic perspective requires two main knowledge bases: 1) economic concepts and principles and (2) data collection and data analyses. Learners have been gained with these two blocks of knowledge in the previous two courses, Microeconomics for health sector and Statistical methods for health sector. This course will help learners combine the above two blocks of knowledge to perform economic analysis of health policies. |
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14. Pharmaceutical economics |
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Pharmaceutical economics is a part of economic analysis in the healthcare sector. This is a practical course that enables students to prepare a cost-effectiveness assessment report of drugs from the perspective of society. |
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15. Marketing Management for Health Care Organizations |
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The course provides students to discover how enterprises generate consumer values in the health sector. Through the situations analyzed in this course, students will be learned the process of marketing strategy establishment by studying consumer behavior and valuable relationships. The key factors of the marketing mix include the product programs, the distribution channels, and the public relation and pricing policy, which is examined in a variety of analytical frameworks in the various globalization and multinational. This course is towards the improvement of knowledge and management for all business fields. |
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16. VN Health care system and Law |
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The course introduces the Vietnam healthcare system, including the key contents of public health care system, and private healthcare system. The course emphasizes the principles of medical law related to medical examination and treatment, medical law related to disease prevention and disease control. |
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17. Financial management for Healthcare sector |
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The course focuses on studying financial management in the public sector, at hospitals, at medical facilities. Moreover, this course emphasizes the management of financial resources (state budget, revenue from hospital fees and health insurance, aid, and other sources of revenue), management of using financial resources, and financial management mechanism of medical facilities. |
