Development Of Undergraduate Health Economic Teaching Resources

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Development Of Undergraduate Health Economic
Teaching Resources

• Emma Frew, Billingsley Kaambwa, Stirling Bryan
• Department of Health Economics
• University of Birmingham
• HESG January 2008

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Objectives

• Overall, develop undergraduate teaching resources
  that would be available via the Health Economics
  Network website.
• Review all undergraduate teaching in Economics
  Departments across the UK.
• Conduct face-to-face interviews with heads of
  Economics Departments.
• Do a similar exercise within Medical Schools.

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Review of Economics Departments (so far)

• Reviewed websites of 18 Universities and found 6
  to be actively teaching health economics either
  as stand-alone course or as module within a
  course.

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Review of Economics Department (so far)

• Teaching
• York University
• City University
• University of East Anglia
• Nottingham University
• Queen Mary (London)
• University of Sheffield

• Not Teaching
• University of Sussex
• University College London
• University of Bristol
• Aston University
• University of Bath
• Bournemouth University
• University of Dundee
• University of Durham
• University of Kent
• Kingston University (London)
• University of Portsmouth
• University of Reading

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And Birmingham

• Face-to-face interview with Head of Economics
  Department within University of Birmingham and
  found the following

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Attitudes towards Health Economics

• Keen to have health economics as part of
  undergraduate course.
• Reservations
• Examination
• Softer subject (compared to Trade, Finance,
  International)
• Maths/Algebra versus Diagrams
• Staff Profiles
• 2nd or 3rd year subject
• On-line resources

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At the end of this process, be able to

• Understand the barriers to teaching health
  economics at undergraduate level.
• Help us to more appropriately design teaching
  resources/support that will encourage health
  economics teaching at the undergraduate level.