Understanding Cost-Effectiveness in Health Care prepares students for critical identification of cost of illness studies, cost-effectiveness studies, cost-utility studies, and cost-benefit studies. The course will also help students develop skills to read and interpret the quality and implications of cost-effectiveness research in health care. No background in accounting or budgeting is necessary, although a minimal understanding of the difference between capital and other expenditures is useful. After the course, students will be prepared to take part in discussions of cost-effectiveness research but should not expect to be able to do their own research after only a two-credit course.

This course will focus on techniques that can be used to analyze the following:

• Medical care treatments in the United States
• Community-based interventions in the United States
• Community-based interventions in international health

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