MED 284 — علم الأوبئة واقتصاد الصحة
السنة 2 · 14 محاضرة · 2 ساعة معتمدة
العناوين والأهداف منقولة من خطة كلية الطب الرسمية.
1. The role of economics in the health industry
Health Economics
- Understand the nature and role of health care economics as a discipline in the provision and delivery of health services.
2. The special features of health care services
Health Economics
- Explain the special features of health care products compared with other economic goods and social services.
3. Need, demand and supply for health care
Health Economics
- Understand the concepts of need, demand, supply and utilisation of health care services.
4. The market for health insurance
Health Economics
- Understand the market for health insurance and its influence on the utilisation and cost of health care.
- Understand the methods of financing health services and reimbursing services.
5. Health care production and costs
Health Economics
- Understand the rising cost of health services and the strategies of cost containment.
6. Economic evaluations
Health Economics
- Understand economic evaluation and the analysis of the cost-effectiveness of health care alternatives and procedures.
7. Epidemiological measures of disease occurrence
Epidemiology
- Review the basic concepts of epidemiology.
- List the measures of disease occurrence and understand the use of each.
- Define prevalence and incidence.
8. Causality
Epidemiology
- Identify exposure, outcome and interventions.
- Draw causal diagrams.
- Comprehend the meaning of and difference between systematic and random errors.
9. Study designs in epidemiology
Epidemiology
- Describe the characteristics, uses, advantages and disadvantages of epidemiologic study designs.
- Describe randomised clinical trials and experimental designs, cohort studies and case-control studies.
10. Pharmacoeconomics (guest lecture)
Health Economics
- Apply epidemiological and health economics concepts in the pharmacological sciences within health care settings.
11. Health insurance from an epidemiologic perspective (guest lecture)
Epidemiology
- Identify basic research results on health insurance in Jordan.
- Identify measures of health outcomes in Jordan from a health economic perspective.
12. Bias
Epidemiology
- Understand the theory and conduct of selection bias, including missing data and Berkson's bias.
- Understand information bias and misclassification.
13. Case-control designs
Epidemiology
- Understand the design and power of case-control studies.
- Describe the advantages and disadvantages of the design.
- Calculate the summary measures associated with the design.
14. Cross-sectional and other observational studies
Epidemiology
- Understand the design and power of cross-sectional studies.
- Describe the advantages and disadvantages of the design.
- Calculate the summary measures associated with the design.
- Describe case-series, case-study and ecological designs.