MPH5317 Healthcare and economic management
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
MPH5317 Healthcare and economic management is a level 5, 6-credit-point, postgraduate unit from the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. It isn't offered in 2027. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2027
- Other periods
- Monash Online
- Assessment
- No exam
- 3 tasks
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Requisites
Before MPH5317
Prohibitions
You can't enrol if you have passed any of these.
After MPH5317
No unit lists MPH5317 as a prerequisite in the 2027 handbook.
Enrolment rules
Must be enrolled in course M6007, B6026.
Overview
The complexities of care delivery in the ever-evolving world of health services has never been more challenging or significant. Healthcare delivery and funding are intertwined, thereby fluency in health economics is essential. The ability to evaluate cost effectiveness of transforming care practices has become essential as government funding for health is increasingly interpreted as funding quality outcomes.
In this unit you will explore concepts of resource allocation and will analyse and compare funding for competing health needs. You will investigate the production of health care and services within an economic framework, incorporating/cementing this knowledge with case studies. It will also include critical analysis of the impact of innovation and how this is incorporated into current health care funding, utilising systematic methods and evidence-based medicine in the form of economic evaluations and their application.
Offerings in 2027
| Teaching period | Campus | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| Teaching period 3 | Monash Online | Mo |
Assessment
- Online development activities (3 x 800 words)Exercise40%
- Case study (2,400 words)Written40%
- Critical appraisal reflection (1,200 words)WrittenThreshold hurdle20%
Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Categorise the funding impacts of the Australian healthcare system in the context of service delivery.
- 2
Apply principles of health economics to the allocation of resources within health care.
- 3
Appraise and interpret economic production function for healthcare, and how service delivery is structured around economic production and innovation.
- 4
Analyse and evaluate resource allocation in healthcare and the use and role of economic evaluations in decision-making.
- 5
Critically appraise peer-reviewed published economic evaluations in order to apply the evidence to healthcare.
Workload and teaching
24 hours per week including directed and self-directed learning (including any asynchronous and synchronous tasks, prescribed activities and independent work).
Contacts
- Unit Coordinators
- Yong Yi Lee
- Mr Long Le
- Chief Examiners
- Yong Yi Lee
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for MPH5317?
MPH5317 has no prerequisites, but enrolment rules apply.
When is MPH5317 offered?
MPH5317 has no offerings listed in the 2027 handbook.
Does MPH5317 have an exam?
No. MPH5317 has 3 assessment tasks and no exam.