A Postgraduate Certificate course in Health Economics

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 Partenerships (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

• 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

You have the option to receive a postgraduate certificate validated by Middlesex University Business School.

You will need to submit an additional marked assignment of 5000 words, based on a continuing case study that runs throughout the duration of the course.

• 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