Postgraduate Certificate in The Mechanics of Health Economics

What you’ll learn

• How public sector resources are allocated and how to evaluate demographic, illness and medical data
• The structure and operation of the international pharmaceutical industry and evaluate how they interact with each other
• The role of budgeting and financial management within public and private sector healthcare and how to construct, manage and assess healthcare budgets
• Investment processes within health and how to audit, build and use Excel models for health investment decision-making
• How to understand the complexities of contracts and legal issues within the health industry
• How to apply risk analysis and evaluation techniques for health investment and risk management

How you’ll learn

• A new module is released every two weeks
• Read the units online, save them to your computer or print them out
• Study at your own pace
• Efficient and cost-effective - no need to travel or take time off work
• Apply new skills and expertise to your work straight away

Why Choose The Postgraduate Certificate?

This programme is quality assured by Middlesex University. Benefits of a Middlesex qualification include:

• Networking opportunities during and after the course
• Access to exceptional teaching staff
• Applied learning experiences
• Combines academic rigour with individual support

International reach

Middlesex University is committed to meeting the needs and ambitions of a culturally and internationally diverse range of students by providing challenging academic programmes. It has a major international business school based in London with overseas campuses in Dubai and Mauritius and a global portfolio of partnerships delivering high quality accredited programmes in business and management.

Staff and students come from a wide spectrum of cultures and backgrounds with a common interest in executive education that is world-class, modern and applicable. Middlesex University Business School is proud of its dedicated teachers and its rich range of learning resources including distance learning and virtual learning environments.

Core modules

• Unit 1 – Demography, illness and medicine
• Unit 2 – Public sector health provision and investment: personnel, facilities and management
• Unit 3 – The pharmaceutical industry, r&d and the future
• Unit 4 – Private and quasi-private sector health arrangements: payment structures, services and institutions
• Unit 5 – Measuring healthcare costs, budgets and performance
• Unit 6 – Healthcare capital investment and management decision-making
• Unit 7 – Contracting out and Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) in healthcare
• Unit 8 – Financial structures in healthcare investment and operation
• Unit 9 – Contracts for healthcare projects: construction, finance, service provision and operation
• Unit 10 – Risks and risk mitigation techniques in healthcare investment and management