Degrees and Programmes
MPhil Health Systems: Health Economics Evaluations
Refer to MPhil Health Systems and Services Health Economics Track
Short Courses
Economic Evaluations
Entry Requirement: Professional 4-year Bachelor's degree / Bachelor Honours degree or Equivalent Qualification
Certificate Type: Competence Delivery Mode: Blended
Duration: 5 months
Presentation Language: 12
Contact Person Name: TS Pietersen
Contact Person Email: traceyp@sun.ac.za
Latest Year Offered: 2024
Estimated cost: R5001 - R10 000 Field of Study: Health Economics
Department Name: Health Systems and Public Health
Objectives: To train candidates to understand the principles and application of Economic evaluation in health care.
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Systematic reviews of economic evaluations
The Division of Health Systems and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, is pleased to announce that it will offer a virtual short course on Systematic Reviews of Economic
Evaluation from March to June 2024.
The short course will be exclusively online, using a combination of live synchronous webinars and online recordings. All teaching and learning will be facilitated via SUNlearn. Online content will be spread across a period of 16 weeks, with students required to engage with content weekly, punctuated with online discussions and webinars.
The objective is to train candidates to understand the principles and application of systematic reviews of economic evaluation in health care. The content of the course includes:
- What are systematic reviews of economic evaluations, why are they needed, and where can they be found?
- Components of a good research question and why this is fundamental to the success of a systematic review of economic evaluation.
- The importance of developing a comprehensive search strategy and how to conduct a search of a systematic review in a topic of choice.
- Data management process(es) of a systematic review, including screening search results using pre-defined eligibility criteria and extracting relevant data.
- How to critically appraise economic evaluation studies.
- Reading and interpreting the results of a systematic review of economic evaluation studies, focusing on the summary of findings tables.
- Incorporating economic perspectives and evidence into Cochrane systematic reviews.
- Writing a protocol for a systematic review of a topic of choice
- Understanding the challenges of conducting systematic reviews of economic evaluation studies.
Course fees
R6,000 – All participants
