Handbook on Teaching Health Economics

Edited by Maia Platt, Associate Professor of Health Services Administration, College of Health Professions, University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, Michigan and Allen C. Goodman, Professor of Economics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, US

Contents:

Preface xix

PART I ACTIVE LEARNING ASSIGNMENTS
1 Introduction to learning and teaching health economics 2
Allen C. Goodman and Maia Platt
2 The health insurance game 17
Jennifer Kohn
3 Assessing competency in health economics using portfolios 32
Neha Batura, Hassan Haghparast-Bidgoli, Jane Hughes and Jolene Skordis
4 Labs and cases in health insurance and cost-effectiveness
analyses to enhance active learning experiences in an introductory
health economics course for students in health professions 44
Carolyn S. Dewa and Jeffrey S. Hoch
5 Active learning techniques to enhance understanding of complex
stochastic modeling methods 61
Michal Horný
6 Using net benefit regression to teach cost-effectiveness analysis with a dataset 77
Jeffrey S. Hoch and Carolyn S. Dewa
7 Noricum – healthy cooperation or nasty snake pit: a strategic role play
teaching how to handle healthcare system conflicts 88
Florian Buchner
8 Teaching health economics to non-economists 108
Elizabeth Pitney Seidler

PART II TEACHING TIPS AND TOOLS FOR ONLINE ENVIRONMENT
9 Strategic pedagogy: pursuing best practices for teaching asynchronous
online health economics courses 124
Neil Meredith
10 Integration of an online homework platform and interactive e-textbook
into a virtual learning environment of a health economics course 135
M. Femi Ayadi
11 Engaging distance learners with no economic background in an online
health economics course 146
Heather Brown
12 Opportunities and challenges in delivering postgraduate health
economics programs online 157
Lisa Gold and Jennifer Watts
13 Using distance education to teach health economics: national and global
experiences 170
Diane M. Dewar
14 Teaching in a pandemic: quickly adapting to the unexpected 178
Jill Boylston Herndon

PART III INTERNATIONAL AND COUNTRY-SPECIFIC
PERSPECTIVES AND APPLICATIONS
15 Video-conferencing in a health economics course with alumni in
healthcare and partners abroad 189
Ashley Hodgson
16 Teaching international health systems through experiential learning 204
Simon Condliffe
17 Strengthening capacity for teaching of health economics in sub-Saharan Africa 222
Thomas Wilkinson, Susan Cleary and Justice Nonvignon
18 Lessons from incorporating study-abroad experience in master courses
in health economics 237
Arturo Schweiger, Maria Clara Zerbino, Ruth Litmanovich, Noemi Savoia
and Mercedes Alfaro Latorre

PART IV DISSEMINATION AND SOCIETAL IMPACT OF HEALTH
ECONOMICS SKILLS
19 Bringing health economics knowledge to non-economists in Quebec,
Canada: A case study of a multi-modal knowledge transfer approach for
patient-oriented research (POR) 246
Maude Laberge, Annie Poirier, Simon Berthelot, Thomas Poder, Erin Strumpf
and Hervé Tchala Vignon Zomahoun
20 On the importance of partnerships between public health research
institutions and health economics faculty in universities, for the
engagement of non-economics students in health economics training:
perspectives from Brazil 266
Tânia Maria Costa da Silva Beume

Index