Last modified: 27 Feb 2018 18:45
The health behaviour of individuals – smoking, alcohol, poor diet, physical activity – are major contributors to development of health problems. Health policy needs to be effective and cost-effective. Economics as a discipline contributes to the understanding of health behaviors and provides tools for evaluating policy interventions to influence health behaviour.
| Study Type | Postgraduate | Level | 2 |
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| Term | Second Term | Credit Points | 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Old Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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This course introduces the students to key economic concepts that help explain and predict health behaviours. This course builds on some of the methods introduced in 'PU5401: Economic Evaluation – Principles and Frameworks', by providing discussion of how economics can be used as a means of understanding health behaviours, and how that understanding can then be applied in the development and evaluation of policies and interventions that aim to inform or change behaviours. The types of health behaviours that will be studied in the course include lifestyle choices relating to diet, physical activity, alcohol consumption and smoking, both for healthy populations as well as for people with long-term conditions.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
Short answers (40%); Short essay (60%); Contribution to group discussion via MyAberdeen (0%).
Resit: a resit assignment will be set in the same format as the original - short answers and essay.
There are no assessments for this course.
Essay and short answers - marked online using standardised rubrics with additional comments to highlight areas of excellence and/or improvement.
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