Learning objectives
The pharmacoeconomic course has the objective to supply useful knowledge and methodological instruments to evaluate the economic impacts of pharmacological interventions
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.
Bibliography
The teacher will supply notes