Brief Course Description
1. Course Title:
Research topics in health economics and management
2. Language of Instruction:
Tiếng Việt
3. Course Code:
RES601057
4. Credits:
4
5. Course Objectives:
6. Brief Description of Course Content:
The course helps participants learning the way economists use tools of economic analysis to study and interpret economic phenomena and make policy recommendations in the field of health and health care economics. In this course participants will get familiar with state-of-the-art methods of modeling economic theories, economic concepts, mainly through quantitative instruments. For this objective, the course introduces participants with lastest studies in selective advanced and classical topics in pharmaceutical economics, health economics, and health care economics.
Each lecture introduces one or one group of important research topics in economics, the key analytical tools for studying that topic, and typical applications. Students will be presented with a variety of studies in Vietnam and around the world that illustrate the modeling of economic conceptsthe methods of data analyses and results discussions.
In addition to providing research ideas, and the operationalization of economic concepts into variables used in econometric models, the course also provides learners with readings and recent studies. This is to gain a deeper understanding of the presented topic and research methods.
This course helps learners understand how to transform economic concepts and economic theories into research topics, understand how to use quantitative methods to solve research questions.