Health Economics PH: Resources

Section	Name	Description
Module 1 - An Introduction to Health Economics	Principles of health economics including: the notions of scarcity, supply and demand, distinctions between need and demand, opportunity cost, discounting, time horizons, margins, efficiency and equity	Read entire web page. (30 minutes) University - 2017
	What is Health Economics?	Read the entire presentation. (10 minutes)
	Introduction to Microeconomics	Read the entire presentation. (16 minutes) 2019
	WHO 2014 - Making Fair Choices on the path to UHC	Read from page 15, title: Universal Health Coverage; to page 24, the last paragraph of the title: Fair contribution. (21 minutes) WHO - 2014
	An Introduction to the Main Types of Economic Evaluations Used for Informing Priority Setting and Resource Allocation in Healthcare: Key Features, Uses, and Limitations	Read entire article. (60 minutes) Frontiers in Public Health - 2021
	Introduction to Health Economics for Public Health Practitioners (OPTIONAL)	This video is an introduction to health economics for public health practitioners (6 mins). It is part of a 3-section health economics learning module aimed at graduate and post-graduate learners at the School of Epidemiology and Public health in the fields of medicine and public health.

Module 2 - Health and Socio-Economic Development	The Role of Health in Economic Development	Read entire article. (10 minutes) Research Analyst, DSAED - 2010
	Effect of public health expenditure on health outcomes in Nigeria and Ghana	Read entire article. (38 minutes) Elsevier - Health Policy OPEN - 2022
	Understanding household healthcare expenditure can promote health policy reform	Read entire article. (45 minutes) Cambridge University Press - Health Economics, Policy and Law - 2023
	Structural Racism, and Social Determinants With Health Care Inequities.	Read entire article. (7 minutes) American Academy of Pediatrics - 2020
	Socio-economic Determinants of Health	Read entire presentation. (15 minutes)
	Global health 2035: a world converging within a generation	Read from page 15, title: Section 2. The returns to investing in health; up to it's end, in page 18. (20 minutes) The Lancet: Global health 2035 - 2013
	How economic inequality harms societies \| Richard Wilkinson (OPTIONAL)	Watch entire video. (2 minutes) TED - 2011
	Universal Health Coverage explained (OPTIONAL)	This video discusses what Universal Health Coverage is about- providing healthcare to people without pushing people into poverty. It's an exciting public health and global health tool. Countries that implement universal health coverage provide better healthcare at lower costs (the health economics evidence is clear). The video was produced with support from DCP-3
	WHO: Universal Health Coverage - What does it mean? (OPTIONAL)	This video message is in support of UHC and was recorded by WHO Director-General Margaret Chan for UHC Day 2015. Universal Health Coverage (UHC) aims to ensure everyone receives the quality services they need, and is protected from health threats, without suffering financial hardship. It's a way of reducing poverty and increasing health security, so that no-one is left behind.

Module 3 - Health Care Financing	Health system performance assessment: A framework for policy analysis	Read entire chapter. (50 minutes) NCBI - 2022
	Health Costs And Financing: Challenges And Strategies For A New Administration	Read entire article. (45 minutes) HEALTH AFFAIRS - 2021
	Provider Payment Mechanisms: Effective Policy Tools for Achieving Universal and Sustainable Healthcare Coverage	Read entire excerpt. (60 minutes) School of Health and Related Research - University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK - 2019
	Strengths and Weaknesses of Strategic Health Purchasing for Universal Health Coverage in Rwanda	Read entire excerpt. (38 minutes) Health Systems & Reform - 2022
	Achieving Universal Health Coverage in Low-Income Settings	Read entire article. (8 minutes) The Lancet - 2012
	Universal health coverage (UHC)	Read entire web page. (8 minutes) WHO - 2012
	Moving towards Universal Health Coverage: Health Insurance Reforms in Nine Developing Countries in Africa and Asia	Read entire article. (28 minutes) Universal Health Coverage 3 - 2012
	Health Financing for Universal Coverage and Health System Performance: Concepts and Implications for Policy	Read entire article. (30 minutes) WHO - 2013
	Financing Global Health: Mission Unaccomplished	Read entire article. (45 minutes) Health Affairs - 2014
	The political path to universal health coverage: Power, ideas and community-based health insurance in Rwanda	Read entire article. (35 minutes) Elsevier - 2018
	Health Systems Financing: The Path to Universal Coverage	Enter the: Chapter 2: More money for health (pdf, 622kb) and read from the beginning of the article in page 3, until the end of the tittle: Ensuring a fair share of total government spending on health; in page 8. (16 minutes) WHO - 2010
	WHO: The many paths towards universal health coverage	Watch entire video. (10 minutes) WHO - 2013
	Health Financing for Achieving Universal Health Coverage	This is a new slide set for Topic 3. It is the only required resource. (30 minutes)
	Summary of Lancet article Section 6 on Financing	We refer to this key recent article on achieving UHC in several of the Topics in HealthE14a. (5 minutes) The Lancet
	Section 6: Health systems finance (OPTIONAL)	The entire module is now framed around this paper, and section 6 is directly related to this topic. The Lancet
	Summary of Lancet article Section 6 on Financing (OPTIONAL)	We refer to this key recent article on achieving UHC in several of the Topics in HealthE14a
	Health Financing for Achieving Universal Health Coverage (OPTIONAL)	This is a new slide set for Topic 3. It is the only required resource.
	Health systems financing (OPTIONAL)	Mr. Rob Yates, a Senior Fellow at Chatam House compiled this video about health systems financing. It is part of the "Public Health Lectures" videos.
	Health Financing in Thailand. Universal Health Coverage with 3 health financing schemes (OPTIONAL)	The video is part of a series on the Thai health system. The history of health financing in Thailand and how it led to the major health reforms of 2001, the details of Thailand’s 3 health financing schemes that collectively provide universal coverage, and the implications of payment mechanisms and other features on the health system.

Module 4 - Introduction to Economic Evaluation	Effectiveness of Rotavirus Vaccination	Read entire article. (25 minutes) Research Gate - 2015
	Use of CEA in Universal Health Coverage	Read from the page 25, Title: Expanding priority services; until it's end in page 37. (38 minutes) WHO - 2014
	Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standards	Read entire article. (45 minutes) ScienceDirect - 2013
	Cost-Effectiveness of Xpert MTB/RIF assay for Tuberculosis Diagnosis in Brazil	Read entire article. (15 minutes) The Union - 2016
	CBA EMR	Read entire article. (12 minutes) The American Journal of Medicine - 2001
	Introduction to Economic Evaluation	Read entire slide presentation. (20 minutes) Evidence Synthesis Specialist, Campbell Collaboration
	Methods of Economic Evaluation	Read entire slide presentation. (15 minutes) Evidence Synthesis Specialist, Campbell Collaboration
	An Introduction to the Main Types of Economic Evaluations Used for Informing Priority Setting and Resource Allocation in Healthcare: Key Features, Uses, and Limitations	Read the entire article. (10 minutes) Front. Public Health - 2010
	Economic Evaluation Modeling	Read entire slide presentation. (21 minutes) Evidence Synthesis Specialist, Campbell Collaboration
	Cost of Illness Case Study	Read entire slide presentation. (5 minutes) Evidence Synthesis Specialist, Campbell Collaboration
	CMA Case Study	Read entire slide presentation. (5 minutes) Evidence Synthesis Specialist, Campbell Collaboration
	CBA_Case Study	Read entire slide presentation. (5 minutes) Evidence Synthesis Specialist, Campbell Collaboration
	CHEERS Checklist	Read entire slide presentation. (5 minutes) Evidence Synthesis Specialist, Campbell Collaboration
	A review of cost-effectiveness analysis: From theory to clinical practice	Read the entire article. (30 minutes) Medicine (Baltimore) - 2023
	Interpreting economic evaluations of healthcare interventions a simple guide	Read the entire article. (50 minutes) Journal of Wound Care - 2024
	Health Economic Evaluation Basics - Putting a price tag on health (OPTIONAL)	This video was produced by "Let's Learn Public Health." It explains how health economic evaluation is a tool that allows us to make decisions on the allocation of scarce resources. In this video, we will take a simplified look at what it is and the four main types of health economic evaluations: Cost minimization, cost-effectiveness, cost-utility, and cost-benefit analysis.

Module 5 - Health System Efficiency and National Health Priorities	Poor Health Care Access in Nigeria: A Function of Fundamental Misconceptions and Misconstruction of the Health System	Read the entire excerpt. (60 minutes) Healthcare Access - New Threats, New Approaches-2022
	THE NEW PARTNERSHIP FOR AFRICA’S DEVELOPMENT (NEPAD) HEALTH STRATEGY	Read from page 7, title: SECTION 3: THE REASONS BEHIND THE HUGE BURDEN OF DISEASE, until it's end in page: 14. (27 minutes) NEPAD Health Strategy-2020
	Health strategy for Africa	Read the entire article. (35 minutes) AFRICAN UNION-2015
	India Health Systems Reform Project	Read the entire web page. (2 minutes) Harvard T.H. Chan School Of Public Health
	Toward a Consensus on Guiding Principles for Health Systems Strengthening	Read from the title: 3 Populating each dimension of the framework with indicators on page 16; up to its final on page: 45. (75 minutes) Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development-2023
	Efficiency Measures of Health systems and Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in Ghana (OPTIONAL)	This video throws light on the scorecard assessments of Ghana's health systems, patient safety, quality of mental healthcare, prevention, and curative services provisions in Ghana. Ghana has embarked on a journey to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2030. UHC, in Ghana's context, has been defined as "Universal access to high-quality services independent of the ability to pay at the point of use."