Advanced Topics in Economic Evaluation & Modeling for Global Health

3 Credits.

Presents evaluation techniques to compare health system interventions in international health. Focuses on addressing existing constraints in health systems development, given key policy goals as quality, equity and efficiency. Presents both qualitative and quantitative approaches to evaluate interventions to better inform policy how to improve system performance and functions. Identifies policy goals, actor groups, system functions and ways to assess improvement strategies related to policy goals using existing systems frameworks. Covers key constraints in systems performance such as: effective prevention and treatment programs, patient compliance, health worker performance, inequitable access, collective financing, choosing priorities, and community-level interventions. Comparative methods draw on a mix of epidemiology, health economics, disease modeling, services research, and qualitative techniques.