This is the schedule used to deliver educational content offered by JHSPH. As a result, some of the information and/or materials listed here may not be relevant to or available for an OCW user's self-directed study.
Schedule
| TOPIC | ACTIVITIES |
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Module
1: Core Concepts
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| Economics Concepts Overview | Lecture 1 |
| Solidifying Underlyinc Concepts | LiveTalk 1 |
| Recommendations of the Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine | Lecture 2 |
| Solidifying Concepts from Recommendations | LiveTalk 2 |
| Decision Rules | Lecture 3 |
| Discussion of decision rules and how the rules apply to cancer treatment. | LiveTalk 3 |
| Decision rules | Exercise 1 |
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Module
2: Quality Adjusted Life Years
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| Quality Adjusted Life Years | Lecture 4 |
| Discussion of the concepts behind QALYs, implications of using QALYs, and how QALYs were calculated in the Discussion III piece. | LiveTalk 4 |
| QALYs | Exercise 2 |
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Module
3: Costs and Calculations
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| Measuring Cost Over Time | Lecture 5 |
| Multiple Year Cost Calculations | Lecture 6 |
| Solidifying Cost Concepts | LiveTalk 5 |
| Costs | Exercise 3 |
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Module
4: Putting It All Together
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| Putting It All Together (with examples from the readings). | Lecture 7 |
| Any outstanding issues. | LiveTalk 6 |
| Final Assignment | Final assignment |
| Course Evaluation | Course Evaluation. Student input is a highly-valued source of information when doing course revisions. As such, please take a minute to fill out the end of course evaluation. |
