Health Technology Assessment

 

Syllabus for course at advanced level

 

Course Name

Health Technology Assessment

 

Course code : KUKM2213304 (Elective)

Department: : Department of Health Policy and Management

Main field : Health Financing

Term : Semester 1

Time commitment : 120 hours

 

Prerequisites and special admittance requirements

Admitted to the master’s program in health policy and management.

 

Course content

This course will discuss the definition and introduction of Health Technology Assessment (HTA) in general, as well as types and ways of conducting economic evaluations in the health sector. Participants will be introduced to the 6 main steps in conducting an economic evaluation through design, costing, health effects, modeling, discounting, and synthesis. The relationship between economic theory and the use of different types of economic evaluations and their utilization will also be discussed. Lectures will be held for 100 minutes at each meeting, using online methods. A number of assignments, discussions, and Student Center Learning (SCL) will be carried out to invite students to actively search for teaching materials, discuss, and present the results of discussions.

This course aims to provide an understanding of the structure and benefits of Health Technology Assessment (HTA) studies in the health sector, conduct economic evaluations, provide an assessment of economic evaluation studies (journal-based), and discuss inclusion, calculation of future costs, productivity costs, informal care and outcomes in QALY calculations.

 

Learning objectives

After completing the course the student should be able to:

  1. Outline the overall Health Technology Assessment course, lecture sessions, and teaching methods
  2. Explain policies and issues related to HTA
  3. Identify systematic review and appraisal of an economic evaluation
  4. Differentiate economic evaluation calculation methods and their utilization
  5. Explain about Quality of Life measurement methods 
  6. Relate the objectives, benefits and limitations of the Cost Effectiveness Analysis method
  7. Compare various modeling methods in economic evaluation 
  8. Explain the concept of Budget Impact Analysis
  9. Demonstrate economic evaluation calculation exercise 
  10. Demonstrate systematic review
  11. Demonstrate case practice of Quality of Life measurement
  12. Analyze CEA calculation exercise, and its interpretation
  13. Analyze cases using modeling and Cost Utility Analysis (CUA)
  14. Analyze Budget Impact Analysis Case

 

Topics

  1. Introduction to Health Technology Assessment (HTA)
  2. Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Policy
  3. Health Technology Assessment Issues
  4. Calculation of economic evaluation
  5. Exercise: Calculation of economic evaluation
  6. Quality of Life
  7. Exercise : Quality of Life
  8. Cost and Analysis
  9. Exercise : Cost and Analysis
  10. Modelling in Economic Evaluation and Cost Utility Analysis (CUA)
  11. Exercise: Modelling in Economic Evaluation and Cost Utility Analysis (CUA) Exercise.
  12. Budget Impact Analysis
  13. Exercise: Budget Impact Analysis
  14. Economic Evaluation Assessment

 

Education

The teaching consists of:

  • Lectures
  • Self-study through eLearning
  • Quizzes/assignments/discussion forum in eLearning: Case-based learning
  • Online synchronous discussion
  • Case based tutorials

The teaching is delivered through a combination of 60% in-person classes and 40% online classes.

 

Forms of examination

The course is examined through:

  • Assignment, 20%
  • Quiz, 30%
  • Written final exam (case study/project results), 50%

 

Required reading

  • Keputusan Menteri Kesehatan Republik Indonesia Nomor 171/Menkes/SK/IV/2014 tentang Komite Penilaian Teknologi Kesehatan
  • Drummond, M.F., Schwartz, J.S., Jonsson, B., Luce, B.R., Neumann, P.J., Siebert, U., et al., (2008) Key principles for the improved conduct of health technology assessments for resource allocation decisions. ‘International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 2008
  • Morris, S., Devlin, N. and Parkin, D., 2007. Economic analysis in health care. John Wiley & Sons.