Postgraduate Certificate in The Mechanics of Health Economics
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Key Information
Campus location
Online United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
Distance Learning
Duration
20 weeks
Pace
Full time, Part time
Tuition fees
GBP 1,799 *
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Introduction
What you’ll learn
- How public sector resources are allocated and how to evaluate demographic, illness and medical data
- The structure and operation of the international pharmaceutical industry and evaluate how they interact with each other
- The role of budgeting and financial management within public and private sector healthcare and how to construct, manage and assess healthcare budgets
- Investment processes within health and how to audit, build and use Excel models for health investment decision-making
- How to understand the complexities of contracts and legal issues within the health industry
- How to apply risk analysis and evaluation techniques for health investment and risk management
How you’ll learn
- A new module is released every two weeks
- Read the units online, save them to your computer or print them out
- Study at your own pace
- Efficient and cost-effective - no need to travel or take time off work
- Apply new skills and expertise to your work straight away
Why Choose The Postgraduate Certificate?
This programme is quality assured by Middlesex University. Benefits of a Middlesex qualification include:
- Networking opportunities during and after the course
- Access to exceptional teaching staff
- Applied learning experiences
- Combines academic rigour with individual support
International reach
Middlesex University is committed to meeting the needs and ambitions of a culturally and internationally diverse range of students by providing challenging academic programmes. It has a major international business school based in London with overseas campuses in Dubai and Mauritius and a global portfolio of partnerships delivering high quality accredited programmes in business and management.
Staff and students come from a wide spectrum of cultures and backgrounds with a common interest in executive education that is world-class, modern and applicable. Middlesex University Business School is proud of its dedicated teachers and its rich range of learning resources including distance learning and virtual learning environments.
Curriculum
Core modules
- Unit 1 – Demography, illness and medicine
- Unit 2 – Public sector health provision and investment: personnel, facilities and management
- Unit 3 – The pharmaceutical industry, r&d and the future
- Unit 4 – Private and quasi-private sector health arrangements: payment structures, services and institutions
- Unit 5 – Measuring healthcare costs, budgets and performance
- Unit 6 – Healthcare capital investment and management decision-making
- Unit 7 – Contracting out and Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) in healthcare
- Unit 8 – Financial structures in healthcare investment and operation
- Unit 9 – Contracts for healthcare projects: construction, finance, service provision and operation
- Unit 10 – Risks and risk mitigation techniques in healthcare investment and management