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Book SynopsisThis Handbook features the best teaching practices in the Health Economics (HE) field over the past decade. HE is still considered a relatively new field in the world of economics. While most academic programs leading to HE specializations are housed in economics departments, many courses often reside elsewhere: in schools of public health, health professions, health sciences, nursing, pharmacy, business, or public/health administration. Teaching in these diverse, specialized curricula requires a customized subset of methods and materials developed for both the instructors and the students.
The editors have sought to expand applicability beyond North America and Western Europe, and to address issues in both less developed health economies and more advanced ones. The chapters herein present new and innovative teaching methods.
Instructors with or without professional training in HE will welcome the featured practical applications that encompass HE courses taught in various economics and non-economics undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs.
Trade Review‘This text provides unprecedented teaching tips to create an active learning environment for students in public health and medicine as well as traditional economics programs. Instructors will appreciate the tips on active learning techniques for online teaching and the focus on international and country-specific applications.’ -- J. Mick Tilford, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, US
'This Handbook is a treasure trove of approaches, ideas, and tools to improve everybody's teaching of health economics. Whether you're teaching an online class for the first time, preparing to teach in another country, or seeking fresh new simulations and classroom activities, you’ll find great information to make your teaching more effective and inclusive.' -- Joanne Spetz, University of California, US
Table of ContentsContents: Preface xix PART I ACTIVE LEARNING ASSIGNMENTS 1 Introduction to learning and teaching health economics 2 Allen C. Goodman and Maia Platt 2 The health insurance game 17 Jennifer Kohn 3 Assessing competency in health economics using portfolios 32 Neha Batura, Hassan Haghparast-Bidgoli, Jane Hughes and Jolene Skordis 4 Labs and cases in health insurance and cost-effectiveness analyses to enhance active learning experiences in an introductory health economics course for students in health professions 44 Carolyn S. Dewa and Jeffrey S. Hoch 5 Active learning techniques to enhance understanding of complex stochastic modeling methods 61 Michal Horný 6 Using net benefit regression to teach cost-effectiveness analysis with a dataset 77 Jeffrey S. Hoch and Carolyn S. Dewa 7 Noricum – healthy cooperation or nasty snake pit: a strategic role play teaching how to handle healthcare system conflicts 88 Florian Buchner 8 Teaching health economics to non-economists 108 Elizabeth Pitney Seidler PART II TEACHING TIPS AND TOOLS FOR ONLINE ENVIRONMENT 9 Strategic pedagogy: pursuing best practices for teaching asynchronous online health economics courses 124 Neil Meredith 10 Integration of an online homework platform and interactive e-textbook into a virtual learning environment of a health economics course 135 M. Femi Ayadi 11 Engaging distance learners with no economic background in an online health economics course 146 Heather Brown 12 Opportunities and challenges in delivering postgraduate health economics programs online 157 Lisa Gold and Jennifer Watts 13 Using distance education to teach health economics: national and global experiences 170 Diane M. Dewar 14 Teaching in a pandemic: quickly adapting to the unexpected 178 Jill Boylston Herndon PART III INTERNATIONAL AND COUNTRY-SPECIFIC PERSPECTIVES AND APPLICATIONS 15 Video-conferencing in a health economics course with alumni in healthcare and partners abroad 189 Ashley Hodgson 16 Teaching international health systems through experiential learning 204 Simon Condliffe 17 Strengthening capacity for teaching of health economics in sub-Saharan Africa 222 Thomas Wilkinson, Susan Cleary and Justice Nonvignon 18 Lessons from incorporating study-abroad experience in master courses in health economics 237 Arturo Schweiger, Maria Clara Zerbino, Ruth Litmanovich, Noemi Savoia and Mercedes Alfaro Latorre PART IV DISSEMINATION AND SOCIETAL IMPACT OF HEALTH ECONOMICS SKILLS 19 Bringing health economics knowledge to non-economists in Quebec, Canada: A case study of a multi-modal knowledge transfer approach for patient-oriented research (POR) 246 Maude Laberge, Annie Poirier, Simon Berthelot, Thomas Poder, Erin Strumpf and Hervé Tchala Vignon Zomahoun 20 On the importance of partnerships between public health research institutions and health economics faculty in universities, for the engagement of non-economics students in health economics training: perspectives from Brazil 266 Tânia Maria Costa da Silva Beume Index
