70139 - PLANNING AND EVALUATION OF HEALTH PROMOTION PROGRAMS

Anno Accademico 2018/2019

  • Docente: Mario Mazzocchi
  • Crediti formativi: 5
  • SSD: SECS-S/03
  • Lingua di insegnamento: Inglese

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

At the end of the course, the student has developed the skills supporting evidence-based decision making, and has adequate knowledge of the evaluation approaches and their applications to the different health promotion programs.

Contenuti

  • Types of economic evaluation of health promotion programs
  • Ex-ante vs. ex-post evaluation methods
  • Economic evaluation of health care programmes: cost-effectiveness, cost-utility and cost-benefit analysis
  • Evaluation with non-experimental data: indirect methods
  • Counterfactual estimation, Difference-in-Difference, Regression Discontinuity Design, Propensity Score Matching, Instrumental Variable Methods
  • Case studies: Information and promotion measures; Taxation; Advertising regulations; School measures

Testi/Bibliografia

Books

Mazzocchi, M., Traill, W.B., Shogren, J.S., 2009, Fat Economics: Nutrition, Health and Economic Policy, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

M. F. Drummond, Mark J. Sculpher, George W. Torrance, 2005, Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes, Oford University Press, Oxford

Myoung-jae Lee, 2005, Micro-econometrics for policy, program, and treatment effects, Oxford University Press, Oxford

Journals

A selection of journal articles will be recommended during the course

Metodi didattici

The course consists of a combination of theoretical lectures, case studies on real-life evaluations, and lab tutorials using Stata. 

During the course, students will be provided with examples of evaluations through:

1) Lab sessions on the application of policy evaluation methods for quasi-experimental data using Stata

2) A set of published articles on the evaluation of health policies and programs

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

Written exam, structured in three sections:

1) A short part with multiple-choice questions on the foundation of evaluations of health promotion programs (20% of final mark)

2) A section on the interpretation of the stata outputs produced during the lab sessions (30% of final mark)

3) A section on the interpretation of the evaluation outputs from the selected scientific articles distributed to the students during the course (50% of final mark)

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

This module provides a set of case studies on the economic evaluation of actual programs and policies designed to contrast obesity and its adverse health outcomes. The e-learning platform Moodle will enable access to interactive contents, data and case studies, including Stata data-sets and codes demonstrated in the lab.

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Mario Mazzocchi

SDGs

Salute e benessere Ridurre le disuguaglianze

L'insegnamento contribuisce al perseguimento degli Obiettivi di Sviluppo Sostenibile dell'Agenda 2030 dell'ONU.