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[ 977HEALEEHK19 ] KS Epidemiology and Empirical Health Economics
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4 ECTS M1 - Master's programme 1. year Economics Wolfgang Frimmel 2 hpw Johannes Kepler University Linz
Detailed information
Original study plan Master's programme Economic and Business Analytics 2025W
Learning Outcomes
Competences
Students are able read and critically reflect empirical journal articles in topics related to health economics and epidemiology
Skills Knowledge
  • Recall key concepts of epidemiology (LO1)
  • Apply concepts to practical examples (LO2)
  • Discuss and present empirical papers applying these concepts (LO3)
  • Critically reflect the state of literature on a clearly defined topic (LO4)
  • Recall and understand key concepts of epidemiology
  • Recall and understand key empirical methods in epidemiology and health economics

Course Topics

  • Global Health Developments
  • Epidemiological measures (morbidity, mortality, risk, reliability of diagnostic tests)
  • Infectious diseases
  • Introduction into survival models and measures of prognosis (duration models, Kaplan-Meier estimator…)
  • causality and empirical methods in epidemiology and health economics (randomized controlled trials, difference-in-differences method, , logistic regression)
  • Topics in Epidemiology and Empirical Health Economics
Criteria for evaluation
  • Exam (40 percent): Individual exam, there is a possibility to repeat it in case of negative results or scheduling issues (retry exam). The exam consists of theoretical as well as practical questions.
  • Student presentations (30 percent): students present a paper and a brief literature review on a specific course topic
  • Short literature review (30 percent): students submit a short literature review on the assigned topic

Synchronisation with learning outcomes:

  • LO1 and LO2: exam
  • LO3 and LO4: presentations + literature review
Methods
  • Teacher-centred information inputs, supported by slides and literature
  • Student presentations on current course topics assigned by the lecturer in collaboration with the student
  • Discussion of literature on current course topics
Language English
Study material
  • Slides
  • Reading material: David Celentano and Moyses Szklo, Gordis Epidemiology, 6th Edition
  • Pointers to additional literature
Changing subject? No
On-site course
Maximum number of participants 200
Assignment procedure Assignment according to priority