FDEFa_FAF Health Economics and Pharmacoeconomics

Faculty of Pharmacy
Autumn 2025
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
PharmDr. Dominik Grega, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PharmDr. Dominik Grega, Ph.D.
Faculty of Pharmacy
Supplier department: Department of Applied Pharmacy – Departments – Faculty of Pharmacy
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to present the theoretical framework of the economic specifics of the healthcare system and the methodological apparatus of individual areas of health technology assessment, especially with a focus on medical effectiveness and safety, economic assessment, social, legal, institutional, ethical and organizational issues, and to supplement them with examples from real practice and case studies.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, the student will be able to:
- characterize the economic aspects of healthcare, the healthcare system, and the provision of medicines;
- participate in the planning and implementation of health-economic and pharmaco-economic analyses, outcomes research, and evaluation of health technologies;
- evaluate the possibilities of practical application and the impact of the results of analyses and studies.
Syllabus
  • - History of health economics, pharmacoeconomics, and health technology assessment (HTA)
  • - Importance, principles, and methods of health economics, pharmacoeconomics, and HTA
  • - EUnetHTA basic model, HEOR overview
  • - Program of clinical research (RCT) vs. real-world evidence data (registries, pharmacovigilance)
  • - Systematic reviews in health economics, pharmacoeconomics, and HTA
  • - Health policy analyses
  • - Economic evaluation – analyses in the healthcare sector
  • - Institutional management and budget impact assessment
  • - Implementation of health economics results into clinical practice, dissemination and transfer of knowledge
  • - Transferability of data, outcomes, and results, local adaptation of HEOR
  • - Ethical, social, cultural, and other soft domains in health economics, pharmacoeconomics, and HTA
  • - Managed entry agreements, coverage with evidence development, payments by results, compassionate use programs, compulsory licensing, Google/Netflix model in healthcare
Literature
    recommended literature
  • MCPAKE, Barbara; Charles E. M. NORMAND; Sam SMITH and Anne NOLAN. Health economics : an international perspective. Fourth edition. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020, 1 online. ISBN 9781315169729. URL info
  • STRAUS, Sharon E.; Paul GLASZIOU; W. Scott RICHARDSON and R. Brian HAYNES. Evidence-based medicine : how to practice and teach EBM. Edited by Reena Pattani - Areti Angeliki Veroniki. Fifth edition. Edinburgh: Elsevier, 2019, xii, 324. ISBN 9780702062964. info
  • Economic evaluation of pharmacy services. Edited by Zaheer-ud-din Babar. Amsterdam: Academic Press, 2017, xviii, 229. ISBN 9780128036594. info
  • Drummond, F. Michael, Sculpher, J. Mark, Claxton, Karl, Stoddart. Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes. Oxford Medical Publications, 4th Edition, 2015. ISBN 978-0199665884. info
  • RASCATI, Karen L. Essentials of pharmacoeconomics. 1. vyd. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2009, viii, 250. ISBN 9780781765442. info
  • ANNEMANS, Lieven. Health economics for non-economists : an introduction to the concepts, methods and pitfalls of health economic evaluations. Gent: Academia Press, 2008, xiii, 106. ISBN 9789038212746. info
Teaching methods
individual consultations, discussions, individual work, and study of literature
Assessment methods
oral exam
Language of instruction
English
Teacher's information
Teaching takes place in the form of personal consultations and other educational activities recommended by the course guarantor.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2025, Spring 2026.
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