2023/2024
Оценка программ и политик в области здоровья
Статус:
Майнор
Кто читает:
Департамент менеджмента
Где читается:
Санкт-Петербургская школа экономики и менеджмента
Когда читается:
1, 2 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для всех кампусов НИУ ВШЭ
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
5
Контактные часы:
76
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The basic goal of policy evaluation is to understand the effect of an intervention on individuals, communities, or healthcare system. Though a randomized controlled trial is considered the gold standard for isolating a causal effect, such a design is rarely possible in health policy evaluation. That is why, researchers rely on observational data to evaluate a policy’s consequences. Even though analyses of observational data alone cannot determine causality, valuable evidence can be drawn when applying best analytic practices. This course seeks to develop the skills required to formulate researchable policy questions, analyse policy issues, specify policy options and to promote evidence based decision-making.
Learning Objectives
- The purpose of this course is to show basic tools and theories in public health research.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- The student understands the origin and the main ways of the transformation of medicine, health care, public health and national healthcare systems
- Apply epidemiologic principles to mental health
- Describe the basics of epidemiologic investigation as applied to mental health
- Evaluate the quality of mental health care
- Student knows basics of trial design and statistical aspects of the trial protocol. Student is able to allocate cases into groups using different types of randomisation.
- Able to define and apply the concepts of health and illness, biomedical model of health, the sick role (Parsons), ‘badness’ versus ‘sickness’, total institutions, 'clinical gaze', 'biomedical discourse', public health policy, medicalisation, bioengineering, ‘biological underclass’, iatrogenesis, impairment and disability, individual model of disability, stigma.
- Knows how Bayesian methods can be used when working with big data, in biostatistics and public health.
- Applying HRQoL concepts and tools to the development of a public health intervention
- A student selects and uses data collection and storage tools.
- to learn pricinples of public health science
- to understand basic tools in epidemiology
- be able to apply basic statistical tools to investigate health policy
- be able to apply basic tools of qualitative research in public health
- Be able to explain how environmental problem affect health
- to understand health-belief model
Course Contents
- Concepts of health. Health-related quality of life. Health determinants. Health inequalities. Why do they arise? Vulnerable groups of the population.
- What is public health? History. Role of government. Overview of disciplines in public health.
- Data, statistics, and methods
- Environment and health
- Mental health
- Randomized Trials
- Health Belief Model
Assessment Elements
- Participation in seminars
- Take-home written examinationA student chooses one question out of three and produces a written answer (1-2 pages long). Failure to produce an essay that is at least 0,5 page long will result in an additional 1 point penalty. Failure to submit the essay by the agreed-upon deadline will result in an additional 1 point penalty for every day the essay is late.
- A group presentation at the final colloquiumUsually, the presentation would be graded as a group project for which one grade is issued to all the participants. Time limit for the presentation is set at 20 minutes. Failure to observe the agreed-upon time limit will result in a 1 point penalty.
Interim Assessment
- 2023/2024 2nd module0.4 * A group presentation at the final colloquium + 0.3 * Participation in seminars + 0.3 * Take-home written examination
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Carr, S., Pless-Mulloli, T., & Unwin, N. (2007). An Introduction to Public Health and Epidemiology (Vol. 2nd ed). Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill Education. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=234613
- Edwards, R. T., & McIntosh, E. (2019). Applied Health Economics for Public Health Practice and Research (Vol. First edition). Oxford: OUP Oxford. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=2155137
- Oster, G. D., & Crone, P. G. (2004). Using Drawings in Assessment and Therapy : A Guide for Mental Health Professionals (Vol. 2nd ed). New York, NY: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=116894
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Susan Carr, Nigel Unwin, & Tanja Pless-Mulloli. (2007). An Introduction to Public Health and Epidemiology: Vol. 2nd ed. Open University Press.