Graduate Program

Course Credit: 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

Course Credit: 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

Course Credit: 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

Course Credit: 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

Course Credit: 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

Course Credit: 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.

Course Credit: 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

Course Credit: 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

Course Credit: 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

Course Credit: 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

Course Credit: 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

Course Credit: 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