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University of Manchester: Health Economics

Institution University of Manchester
Department Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health
Web https://www.manchester.ac.uk
Email admissions.doctoralacademy@manchester.ac.uk
Telephone +44 (0)161 275 5608
Study type Research

Summary

Our PhD/MPhil Health Economics programme enables you to undertake a research project that will improve understanding of Health Economics.

Our main research themes within health economics apply or develop economic methods to understand: - Incentives and provider performance;

  • Equity in healthcare and geographical resource allocation;

  • Workforce planning and determinants of labour supply;

  • Measurement and valuation of preferences for benefits of healthcare;

  • Determinants of variation in healthcare costs and benefits;

  • Economic evaluation of complex cross-therapeutic interventions;

  • Utilisation of routinely collected data across health and social care to value costs and benefits in economic evaluation;

  • Causal analysis of complex interventions, complex needs and less-regulated (mainly diagnostic) services;

  • Innovative study design to take account of complexity in intervention design and increase in emphasis on integration of health and social care.

The research covers a number of clinical areas, including for example, ageing, mental health, precision medicine and patient safety.

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD

Master of Philosophy - MPhil

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