Development Of Undergraduate Health Economic Teaching

Resources

Emma Frew, Billingsley Kaambwa, Stirling BryanDepartment of Health Economics

University of BirminghamHESG January 2008

Objectives

Overall, develop undergraduate teaching resources that would be available via the Health Economics Network website.

1. Review all undergraduate teaching in Economics Departments across the UK.

2. Conduct face-to-face interviews with heads of Economics Departments.

3. Do a similar exercise within Medical Schools.

Review of Economics Departments (so far…)

Reviewed websites of 18 Universities and found 6 to be actively teaching health economics either as stand-alone course or as module within a course.

Review of Economics Department (so far…) TeachingYork UniversityCity UniversityUniversity of East AngliaNottingham UniversityQueen Mary (London)University of Sheffield

Not TeachingUniversity of SussexUniversity College LondonUniversity of BristolAston UniversityUniversity of BathBournemouth UniversityUniversity of DundeeUniversity of DurhamUniversity of KentKingston University (London)University of PortsmouthUniversity of Reading

And Birmingham…

Face-to-face interview with Head of Economics Department within University of Birmingham and found the following…

Attitudes towards Health Economics

Keen to have health economics as part of undergraduate course.

Reservations: ‘Examination’ ‘Softer’ subject (compared to Trade, Finance,

International) Maths/Algebra versus Diagrams Staff Profiles 2nd or 3rd year subject

On-line resources

At the end of this process, be able to…

Understand the barriers to teaching health economics at undergraduate level.

Help us to more appropriately design teaching resources/support that will encourage health economics teaching at the undergraduate level.