• Understand key health economic concepts
• Ability to apply health economic theory to real life situations
• Acquire skills that are directly relevant to the industry
• Deepen knowledge on a topic of own interest

• The lecturers will explain key economic theory and the understanding will be consolidated by selected readings from a leading health economics textbook and other sources.
• Economic theory will be discussed in the context of real life applications introduced via relevant newspaper articles and case studies.
• Understanding of theory and specific skills will be supported by means of short in-class and home exercises.
• Group work on a specialized topic that will culminate in a group oral presentation and written term paper.

Assessment Components (relative weights in the final grade)

• Participation, including group presentation (20%)
• Quiz 1 (20%)
• Quiz 2 (20%)
• Written group assignment (40%)

Grades (point ranges)

• 1: Excellent (90-100 points)
• 2: Good (80-89 points)
• 3: Satisfactory (65-79 points)
• 4: Sufficient (50-64 points)
• 5: Fail (0-49 points)

Important Notes

You will need to Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) with access to LEARN on quiz days. Both quizzes are open-book in the sense that students can bring the course material and own personal notes. No other support is allowed (e.g., internet, communication devices, AI-tools).

Students can use AI-tools to improve the quality of the writing of their group assignment (e.g., writing style, translation). However, it is not allowed to use AI-tools to generate content or replace key authoring tasks. 

More detailed instructions will be provided for each assessment component.