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12 courses · 48 credit hours across 2 terms
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Course title
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HE 601
Advanced Microeconomics I
4
The economic approach to behavior: Preferences, utility functions, revealed preference
Demand analysis: Classical demand theory, demand aggregation
Production and Producer theory: Supply of products, Factors of production, monopoly pricing, competitive producer theory and comparative statics
Partial Equilibrium Competitive Markets: Competitive equilibrium
The Walrasian model of general equilibrium
Social Choice and Welfare
HE 602
Advanced Macroeconomics
4
The Solow growth model
Infinite-horizon and overlapping-generations models (The Ramsey-Cass- Koopmans model, The diamond model)
Endogenous growth
Cross-country income differences Real-business-cycle theory
Dynamic stochastic general-equilibrium models of fluctuations Consumption
Investment Unemployment
Inflation and monetary policy
Budget deficits and fiscal policy
HE 603
Advanced Health Economics
4
Health care financing framework: Third party payers, reimbursement, integration between third- party payers and health care providers, Options for health care financing
Health care financing strategy: The goals and objectives universal health coverage, the strategies, the current status in Bangladesh
The market for physicians’ services: Medical school capacity and concepts of physician shortage and surplus, physician supply in the long run, physicians’ short run decisions, price discrimination
Hospitals: Context, alternative models of hospital behavior, hospital ownership and performance, regulations of hospitals, an alternative to regulating hospitals
Resource Allocation and Equity in Health Care Service Delivery: Concept, equity in health, equity in access, equity in health service utilizations, measurement of Horizontal and Vertical Equity, resource allocation formula
Quality of care and medical malpractice: Markets and market failure, characteristics of health care quality, adverse events and negligent injuries, supply side quality of care safeguards and government oversight and regulation, mandatory error reporting, Tort law as a mechanism for improving patient safety and health care quality, medical malpractice
Health System Responsiveness: Prompt attention, dignity, clear communication, autonomy, confidentiality, choice of provider, quality of basic amenities, access to social support networks.
Overview of National Health Accounts (NHA): What are the NHAs? History of NHA estimation, NHA frameworks, System of Health Accounts (SHA), the differences between SHA 1.0 and SHA 2011, Bangladesh National Health Accounts
Classification for NHA: Classification of function, provider, financing schemes, financing agents.
Market of Drugs and Pharmaceutical Manufacturers
Evaluation of Major Health Systems: UK System, German System and US System
HE 604
Public Health and Epidemiology
4
Part I: Public Health
Introduction to Public Health Principles and Practice
Public health: The population health approach
Evidence-based public health
Public health data and communications
Social and behavioral sciences Public Health in a Global Context
What is global health: Key concepts, successes and challenges
Gender, wellbeing and global health
The Post-2015 Agenda: Improving health systems Infectious Disease
Infectious diseases: Global burden, costs, and trends
Vaccine controversies Chronic Diseases
Chronic disease: Global burden, costs, and trends
The Global Tobacco Epidemic Injuries
Healthcare organization and financing
Measuring the performance of health systems
Public health institutions and systems
The future of population health
Part II: Epidemiology
Measures of disease frequency and exposure effects Confounding and interaction
Classical methods of analysis for cohort studies Classical methods of analysis for case-control studies Unconditional logistic regression
Poisson regression for cohort studies
Survival analysis and proportional hazards regression Practical issues in study design and analysis
Conditional logistic regression for case-control studies Clustering of data in epidemiological studies Strategies of analysis
HE 605
Applied Econometrics
4
Core Methods: Brief Overview
-OLS
-Maximum Likelihood Methods
-GLS
-Generalized Method of Moments and Minimum Distance Estimation
Advanced Topic in Panel Data Estimators
-Panel Generalized Methods of Moments Estimator
-Fixed Effect Estimator, First Difference Random Effect Estimator, Between Effect Estimator, Random Effect VS GLS Estimator
-Contemporaneous exogeneity, Weak exogeneity and Strict Exogeneity,
-Dynamic Panel Data Model
Nonparametric and Semiparametric Methods
Models with Limited Dependent Variables and Other Nonnegative
-Unordered Multinomial Models
-Ordered Multinomial Model, Nested Logit Model
-Count Data Models (Poisson Regression)
-Fractional Responses, Corner Solutions Outcomes, Censored and Truncated model (Tobit), Two Part model, Sample Selection Model and Heckman Two Step Estimator (Heckit)
Time Series: Seasonal Models
HE 606
Health Policy and Planning
4
Introduction to Health Policy and Planning: Health policy and its importance in the health care setting, a systems approach to policy analysis, Macro and micro policy, stages in the development of a policy, definition, situation analysis for making policy, basics of policy formulation, health policy of Bangladesh past and present, principles of effective planning, information requirement at different stage of planning, basics of planning formulation (steps, cycle, broad senses etc.), economic appraisal/ sustainability analysis, planning tools
Contextual Issues related Health Policy and Planning: Health and concepts of health, factors determining the health of the nation, goals and key functions of health systems-WHO model, problems of health systems, Alma- Ata Declaration and Primary Health Care (PHC), Demographic transition and health transition, trends in world health, demographic and health trends in Bangladesh compared to selected SEA countries.
International Development Targets for Health: ICPD objectives, Millennium Development Goals, status of Bangladesh regarding the achievement of targets.
Health and population policies/ programmes in Bangladesh: An overview of key policies/ programmes: HPSS, HPSP, PRSP, HNPSP. Pharmaceutical Policy: Problems of pharmaceutical supply in developing countries, nature of international pharmaceutical industry, the role of public sector in pharmaceutical supply, importance of national drugs policy, goals and components of national drugs policy, constraints, opportunities and strategies for developing a rational drug policy.
Policy in response to international initiative; MDG, SDG.
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HE 607
Advanced Microeconomics II
4
Expected Utility theory: Utility theory under uncertainty, domination, duality
Game Theory: Strategic-from games, domination, Nash equilibrium, incomplete information games, extensive form games, sequential equilibrium, repeated games
Information Economics: Risk aversion, and risk sharing with common information
Principal-agent problem with moral hazard and adverse selection, equilibrium in markets and bargaining games with asymmetric information
Auctions and Mechanism Design
HE 608
Economic Evaluation of Health Care
4
Measuring and valuing effects
Advanced techniques of measuring burden of disease
Using clinical studies and RCT as a vehicle for economic evaluation Economic evaluation using decision analytic modelling Characterizing, reporting, and interpreting uncertainty
Health Impact Assessment: Methods of Health Impact Assessment, evidences on Health Impact Assessment.
Cost-Benefit Analysis: Definition of Cost-Benefit Analysis, CBA decision rules, measures of welfare, economic impact analysis, cost-benefit analysis of social programs, risk & uncertainty, indirect methods, contingent valuation, valuation of a statistical life (VSL) and statistical life-years (VSLY)
Environmental regulation, Global warming
Bayesian Economic Evolution: Introduction to Bayesian inference, statistical cost-effectiveness analysis, Bayesian economic analysis in practice
HE 609
Health Sector Reform
4
Part A: Health System Analysis
-Introduction
-The health-reform cycles
-Judging health-sector performance: Ethical theory
-Political analysis and strategies
-Goals for evaluating health systems
-Assessing health-system performance
-From diagnosis to health-sector reform
Part B: Control Knobs
-Financing
-Payment
-Organization
-Regulation
-Behaviour
-Key issues in health sector reform in developing countries Health sector reform in different countries
HE 610
Advanced Topics in Development Economics
4
What is Development?
Life Satisfaction and Happiness
Economic Growth and Convergence
Growth, Endowments and Geography
Methods: RCTs and Instruments
Barriers to Development: Corruption, Civil war etc.
Human Capital and Education
Human Capital and Health
Environment and Development
HE 611
Research Methodology, Dissertation and Viva-Voce
4
Introduction to Research Methodology: Methods of Acquiring Knowledge, Definition of Research, Difference between Research and other Methods of Acquiring Knowledge, Definition of Scientific Research
Important Theories of Knowledge (Epistemology): Rationalism (Descartes and Spinoza), Empiricism (Locke, Hume, Berkley), Composite View (Aristotle, Kant), Major Lessons of Epistemology for Research
Method of Conducting Research (Logic): Non-scientific Methods, Scientific Methods – Deduction (Aristotle), Induction (Becon, Hobbes), Composite Method for social science research
Evolution of Scientific Research Crucial Steps in Research
Detailed Steps in Research (including steps in survey)
Method of Preparing research proposal
Method of preparing Thesis/ Dissertation
HE 612
Project Development and Viva-Voce
4
Introduction to project management
Project management environment
Project managers roles
Project integration management
Project scope management
Project time management
Project cost management
Project quality, communication, resource, risk procedure, stakeholders' management
Projects in the health sector of Government of Bangladesh