Cost and Efficiency Analyses of Health Care Providers

Knowledge

You will know:

• The foundations and scope of cost and efficiency analyses
• How efficiency analyses can be used in formulation of public policy
• What information that are needed to do analyses
• Empirical methods that are in use in this area

Skills

You will learn:

• Production theory, incl. cost functions, efficiency and productivity concepts
• Stochastic frontier analysis (SFA)
• Data envelopment analysis (DEA) and Malmquist productivity index
• Statistical tools for analyzing costs, productivity and efficiency
• Empirical productivity analyses of hospital data

General competence

You will be able to:

• Understand the basis of cost and efficiency analysis of health care institutions
• Calculate efficiency and cost estimates based on provider data
• Discuss the relevance and limitations of empirical efficiency and performance measures

This course is only available for students at the following master programmes:

• MFM2-HEPAM
• MFM2-EMHEM

Students who are admitted to study programmes at UiO must each semester register which courses and exams they wish to sign up for in Studentweb.

If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures.

Individual term paper.

Examination and grading at The Faculty of Medicine.

For Eu-HEM students:

An EU-hem student cannot present her or himself for the examination in a course more than two times. There will be held re-sits for EU-hem students who have failed an exam or who have legitimate absence (usually illness) in January and August. If you are entitled to a re-sit you must contact the student advisor via email no longer than one week after the result of the exam has been published.

For students at Eu-HEM: English

For students at HEPAM: The problem set will be given in English. Answers can be given in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish or in English.