31 Jul 2019 - 01 Aug 2019 Past Event

Health Economics And Health Technology Assessment Program

Venue: Dorsett Grand Subang, Jalan SS12/1,47500 Subang Jaya, Selangor
Theme: Speaker: Professor Kenneth KC Lee / Professor Nathorn Chaiyakunapruk/ Dr David Wu
Ms Karen Neoh-School of Pharmacy, Monash University Malaysia

Workshop Date: 31 July 2014 -1 August 2014 (Thursday & Friday)
- Certificate will be given by MonashUniversity School of Pharmacy & PhAMA 
upon completion of the program (Duration: 1.5 days)
Venue: Dorsett Grand Subang, Jalan SS12/1,47500 Subang Jaya, Selangor
ProgramFee: RM1,800.00
Speaker: Professor Kenneth KC Lee / Professor NathornChaiyakunapruk/ Dr David Wu
Ms Karen Neoh-School of Pharmacy, MonashUniversity Malaysia

Learning Objectives:

  • To know the concepts of health economics (HE) in health care delivery
  • To describe the different tools for performing economic analysis
  • To know how to interpret data arising from a HE study
  • To know the different types of study design and their strengths and weaknesses
  • To describe the concepts of Health Technology Assessment (HTA)
  • To know how to critically evaluate literatures in HE using the CHEERS guideline and the ISPOR-SMDM Joint Modeling Guidelines
  • To understand the different pricing strategies adopted in other parts of the world
  • To have hands-on experience in performing cost-effectiveness calculation and projection using health economic models
  • To learn the situations in which health economics model should be used and which model type is appropriate for a specific question
  • To know the concepts of uncertainty and effectively interpret results from probabilistic sensitivity analysis
  • To understand the statistical methods commonly used in modeling studies
DAY 1
9:00 -10:00am Introduction and basic concepts on Health Economics (HE)
10:00-11:00am Tools for HE evaluation and their applications
11:00-11:15am Tea break
11:15-12:30pm Concepts and applications of Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and exercises on cost-effectiveness analyses and calculations of QALYs
12:30-1:30pm Lunch break
1:30-2:30pm Study designs in health economics research, sentivitiy analysis, and discouting
2:30-3:00pm Health economics models and their applications and the related biostatistics
3:00-3:15pm Tea break
3:15-3:45pm Health economic models and their applicationsand the related biostatistics(Cont'd)
3:45-4:30pm Hands-on experience with economic models
4:30-5:00pm Evidence-based pricing strategies
 
DAY 2
9:00-10:30am Workshop to understand the objectives and interdependence of different stakeholders and different health care financing system in decision-making process
10:30-10:45am Tea break
10:45-11:30am Critical evaluation of literature
11:30-12:30pm Group discussion and presentation of literature evaluation