Applied Health Economics (Online)

Learna - Diploma MSc

Overview

Higher healthcare costs driven by more complex research, development, and diagnostic capabilities; and healthcare budgets being stretched globally, makes studying a diploma in health economics a foundational and integral part of healthcare decision making.

Our affordable distance learning Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Health Economics (Online) at Diploma MSc enables healthcare professionals to be well equipped to elicit the maximum value from finite budgets, and helps students understand why health economics has become an integral part of healthcare decision making.

Our diploma in health economics will enhance knowledge through showcasing various principles, methods, and processes that are now being applied internationally to varying degrees. These can be applied in decisions about drugs, devices, and treatment pathways, and preventative health strategies in public, private, and mixed healthcare systems. And unlike other courses in health economics, through our carefully selected teaching experts, we deliver key disease areas pertinent to applied health economics for healthcare decision making.

On a successful completion of this flexible post graduate diploma in health economics, you’ll be able to:

• Evaluate sub-national health economic decision-making processes and gain working knowledge of health economics used in health technology appraisals.
• Gain critical understanding of the economic burden of chronic diseases, various types of analyses, setting pay thresholds, and the budget impact.
• Critically analyse data and data interpretation.