PHARMACOECONOMICS
cod. 13403

Academic year 2009/10
4° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Farmaceutico tecnologico applicativo (CHIM/09)
Field
Ambito aggregato per crediti di sede
Type of training activity
Hub-specific activity
32 hours
of face-to-face activities
4 credits
hub:
course unit
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Learning objectives

The pharmacoeconomic course has the objective to supply useful knowledge and methodological instruments to evaluate the economic impacts of pharmacological interventions

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

<br /><br />The request of sanitary programmes, the drug market, the scientific research, the organization of the sanitary system, the classification of the drugs. <br />The consumption of drugs, the drugs expense in Italy and Europe, the devolution.<br />The generic drugs. <br />Definition, objects and applications of pharmacoeconomic. <br />The cost analysis, the direct and non-direct costs, the frictional costs, the perspective of the analysis.<br />The pharmacoecomonic studies: cost-effectiveness analysis, cost-utility analysis, and cost-benefits analysis. <br />The clinical research and the economic data. <br />Practices. 

Full programme

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Bibliography

The teacher will supply notes

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Assessment methods and criteria

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