Master of Health Economics (MHEcon) - Course List

Information valid for students commencing 2010

The program rules for the Master of Health Economics and Master of Health Economics (Advanced) refer to completion of courses from the Master of Health Economics list. The Master of Health Economics list is provided below.

Part A

Course Code Units Course Title
ECON7010 2 Microeconomics for Business
ECON7030 2 Microeconomic Analysis
ECON7300 2 Statistics for Business & Economics
ECON7310 2 Elements of Econometrics
ECON7460 2 Health Economics
ECON7830 2 Health Economics and Policy
PUBH7600 2 Introduction to Epidemiology

Part B

Fields of Study

Economic Evaluation

Course Code Units Course Title
ECON7740 2 Benefit/Cost Analysis & Project Evaluation A
ECON7750 2 Benefit/Cost Analysis & Project Evaluation B
ECON7810 2 Economic Evaluation and Health
PUBH7021 2 Evaluation in Public Health
PUBH7616 2 Burden of Disease Methods
PUBH7617 2 Pharmacoeconomics
PUBH7618 2 Cost Effectiveness in Health and Medicine

Health Development

Course Code Units Course Title
ECON7510 2 Economic Development
ECON7560 2 Globalisation and Economic Development
ECON7570 2 Contemporary Issues in Economic Development
ECON7840 2 Health & Economic Development
PUBH7014 2 Health Financing
PUBH7100 2 International Disease Control Priorities
PUBH7108 2 Project Planning for International Health
PUBH7113 2 Health & Development
PUBH7115 2 Mortality Analysis
PUBH7614 2 Health Systems
PUBH7645 2 Global Health Policy

Part C

Course Code Units Course Title
ECON7020 2 Macroeconomics for Business
ECON7040 2 Macroeconomic Analysis
ECON7320 2 Advanced Applied Econometrics
ECON7322 2 Business & Economic Decision Techniques
ECON7350 2 Applied Econometrics for Macroeconomics and Finance
ECON7360 2 Applied Econometrics for Microeconomics
ECON7410 2 Advanced Managerial Economics
ECON7420 2 Information Economics
ECON7430 2 Competition & Regulation Policy
ECON7440 2 Public Economics
ECON7720 2 Ecological & Environmental Economics
ECON7900 2 Special Unit
PUBH7610 2 Research Protocol Development
PUBH7611 2 Principles of Epidemiology
PUBH7612 2 Control of Non-Communicable Disease
PUBH7650 2 Evidence Based Health Care
PUBH7651 2 Systematic Reviews of Evidence
PUBH7670 2 Injury Epidemiology & Prevention

one of the following -

Course Code Units Course Title
ECON7920 4 Economic Project
ECON7921 4 Economic Project
ECON7922 4 Economic Project

Part D

one of the following -

Course Code Units Course Title
ECON7920 4 Economic Project
ECON7921 4 Economic Project
ECON7922 4 Economic Project

and one of the following -

Course Code Units Course Title
ECON7930 4 Thesis
ECON7932 4 Thesis
ECON7931 4 Thesis