Introduction to the course "Health Quality Assessment".

How to measure the burden of disease. Introduction to cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA), the most widely applied tool to guide policy decisions concerning the allocation of healthcare resources. The differences between the healthcare systems and the conventional market of consumer good. Failure of the law of demand and supply.

Development of methodologies to assess the health and economic effects of alternative medical treatments.

Measures largely used in the CEA: Quality-Adjusted Life Year (QALY); Disability-Adjusted Life Year (DALY). Description and interpretation of these measures.

Duration: 2h