What is covered?
The modules are organised in a similar manner to the Certificate programme, that is, each lasts for approximately 12 weeks and comprises five or six individual study 'units'. Modules are weighted at 20 'credits', where one credit equals approximately 10 hours of study time.

Required Modules:
1 Basic Economic Concepts
2 Health Economics: Concepts and Analysis
3 Introduction to Health Care Evaluation
4 The Economics of Health Care Systems
5 Statistics for Health Economics
6 Advanced topics in Economic Evaluation
8 Project
The modules in detail

The MSc. in Health Economics has been running since 1978 and the course has been completed by over 300 British and overseas students. It provides a comprehensive training in the theory and practice of Health Economics and gives students the experience and skills needed for research and health service decision-making. Graduates work in government departments, research units, universities, national health services and health care organisations, and the pharmaceutical industry.

Students apply the principles of economic analysis in all aspects of health and health care, studying the supply of demand for health and health care, economic analysis of health care systems and health care reforms, econometrics, microeconomics, clinical decision analysis (selection).

The compulsory core elements are double units in each of the following:
1. Health Economics
2. Evaluation of Health Care
3. Either Econometrics or Quantitative Analysis or Econometric Methods for Research
4. Either Advanced Microeconomics or Applied Microeconomics for Decision-Making and Policy Analysis
5. Clinical Decision Analysis (Single Unit)

Plus one unit chosen from: Applied Microeconometrics, Cost-Benefit Analysis ,Development Project Appraisal, Economics of European Integration, Experimental Economics, Game Theory: Economic Applications, Health Care Management, Industrial Economics, International Macroeconomics, Labour Economics, Management Decision Analysis, Advanced Macroeconomics, Political Economy from the General Equilibrium Point of View, Public Finance
Public Sector Economics: Microeconomic Applications.

Linda Whiting
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 321 448
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 321 456
Email: econ-pg-admissions@york.ac.uk or Ihwr@york.ac.uk
Internet: http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/econ/prospective/grad/courses/msc-hlth.htm

A three-day course focusing on the use of regression analysis methods for health economic evaluation of individual patient-level cost, effect and cost-effectiveness data.
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Know how to apply a range of regression methods suitable for health economic evaluation
• Report and present the output from such analyses to policy makers
• Have experience in applying regression methods for cost-effectiveness analysis in STATA

Liz Ingham
Course Administrator
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 321437
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 321402
Email: ei1@york.ac.uk
Internet: http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/che/training/regression.htm

This is a research-based degree with multidisciplinary methods training to equip you to design and conduct a substantial research project. You will focus on the production, critical appraisal and use of scientifically rigorous research evidence, applied to a range of health-related areas.

You will take ten taught modules (all ten credits). The modules are:

* Research Methods
* Applied Biostatistics
* Epidemiology
* Health Economics
* Randomised Controlled Trials
* Systematic Reviews
* Biostatistics in Research Practice
* Qualitative Methods
* Either Health Policy or Health Psychology
* Students select from a group including: Health Inequalities, Measuring Health and Disease and Medical Sociology
It is also possible to study these modules flexibly on an individual basis, dependent on your needs.

Research project: The research project contributes 80 credits to your degree, and will be a substantial piece of in-depth research. You will be matched with a tutor with complementary research interests, and together you will design an appropriate project, using the skills and techniques taught in the modules. You have substantial choice in your area of research, and for part-time students in employment, the project can represent an area that is of interest and value to your employer.

This programme is particularly relevant to science and social science graduates and health care professionals who wish to develop their health-related research and evaluation skills, and to people from any health-related background interested in a career in health services research. A number of our students on this pathway have upgraded to MPhil / PhD study.

Applicants are required to have a good first degree (>2:1) and motivation to work in the general field of health care. Vocational health professional's qualifications will be considered if accompanied by a research protocol and/or certificates that illustrate the applicant's academic aptitude.

Diane Stockdale
Tel: +44 (0)1904 321 372
Email: ds21@york.ac.uk
Internet: http://www.york.ac.uk/healthsciences/gsp/hsr.htm

The MSc in Health Sciences (International Health) is a new taught masters programme focusing on the epidemiology and determinants of major chronic and communicable diseases around the world. The course will cover the health needs of people living in resource poor settings, the epidemiology and biology of pathogens, and the use of vaccines and other methods of disease prevention. You will learn how to initiate and conduct research and disease prevention measures in developing country settings. It will be of interest to people currently working, or aspiring to work, in public health or in developing countries, and it has a more international focus than our MSc in Health Sciences (Population Health) pathway.

Research training: Your taught modules contribute 120 credits to your degree. You will take the following compulsory modules (ten credits except where indicated):
. Research Methods
. Applied Biostatistics
. Epidemiology
. International Health (20 credits)

You will then choose modules from the following list (ten credits except where indicated) to make up a balance of 120 taught credits:
. Biostatistics in Research Practice
. Cancer Epidemiology and Biology (20 credits)
. Global Public Health
. Health Economics
. Health Inequalities
. Measuring Health and Disease
. Medical Sociology
. Public Health and Ethics

It is also possible to study these modules flexibly on an individual basis, dependent on your needs.

Research project: The research project contributes 60 credits to your degree. You will be matched with a tutor with complementary research interests, and together you will design an appropriate project, using the skills and techniques taught in the modules. For part-time students in employment, the project can represent an area that is of interest and value to your employer.

http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/econ/prospective/grad/financialaid.htm

Tel: +44 (0)1904 321 372
Fax: +44 (0)1904 321 320
Email: health-matters@york.ac.uk
Internet: http://www.york.ac.uk/healthsciences/gsp/masters/public-health-int/