Overview

Part A

Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programs:
Current Concepts

June 09 — June 11, 2008

Introduction to cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA):

nternational context:  health care systems and reforms;  principles of eco-
nomic thinking;  theory and practice of cost analysis;  decision analytic mo-
dels for economic evaluation;  using decision analytic software;  sensitivity
analyses to  capture uncertainty;  review of international guidelines;  data
sources; the decision rules of cost-effectiveness analysis.

Participants of Module A will be offered  hands-on training in using a stan-
dard  decision analytic software package  specifically  designed  to support
health economic evaluations, including a fully operational copy of this soft-
ware and a user’s manual.

Part B

Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programs:
Current  Concepts,  Controversies,  and  Inter-
national Experience

September 29 — October 02, 2008

Advanced topics and international practices related to the use of economic evaluation to inform health care policy:

conomic  theory,   willingness-to-pay,   preferences  and  utility,  health-
adjusted life years (HALYs and QALYs); quantifying quality of life, expec-
ted utility theory;  exercise “utility measurement”;  biomedical  ethics and
health economic evaluations;  international overview of health  technology
assessments   including   economic   evaluation;   experience   in   Australia
(PBAC), Canada (CADTH), England (NICE), Sweden (LFN); managed care
and cost-effectiveness analysis  in the United States;  IQWiG in Germany;
HAS in France;  reforming  the  Pharmaceutical  Price  Regulation  Scheme
(PPRS) and “value-based pricing” in the UK; stakeholder perspectives.

The Health Economics Summer School was offered by the  Institute  for  Innovation &
Valuation in Health Care in cooperation with the University of Heidelberg (Department
for Public Health, Social and Preventive Medicine, Mannheim Medical Faculty).