Objectives of HealthEcon

Focused Learning
Focused Learning

To equip health and allied health science professionals with comprehensive knowledge and skills in health economics. This will enable them to evaluate health technologies using the principles of health economics and thereby influence healthcare policies and practices.

Online Training Program
Online Training Program

The course will also cover new topics in health economics that are of significant interest to public health professionals through specially designed live/recorded lectures and related reading materials.

A Common Platform
A Common Platform

This platform will work as a single-window access to information on health economics related learning materials.

National Health System Cost Database for India

The Indian National Cost database provides a one-stop shop for cost information for healthcare decision-making in india.The database is intended for a diverse set of users including: health economists involved in economic evaluation, health care programme managers establishing budgets, policy makers making resource allocation decisions, Ministry of Health personnel setting prices, health financing experts looking at resource requirements, researchers, consultants, NGOs and donors.



Data Collection Tools
Health Service Input Prices
Publications
Training
Further Analysis
Other Costing Resources


Basic Course on Health Economics

This online course on basic health economics has been envisaged to be pivotal in enhancing the knowledge and skills of health professionals by strengthening their capacity to implement activities and services in the field of public health using principles of health economics.

The principles of demand and supply

Understand the principles of equity

Measuring the impact of public health programs

Economic evaluation concept & typology


Advanced Course on Economic Evalution for HTA

This course on economic evaluation for HTA will equip professionals with the skills to navigate complex challenges in resource allocation and maximize health benefits. It focuses on economic evaluation, assessing costs, measuring health benefits, and performing comparative analyses. Key questions addressed include where and how to invest resources, how to cost health services, and how to measure and compare the benefits of healthcare interventions.

Commissioning an Economic Evaluation

Estimating the Cost of a Healthcare Program or Intervention

Undertaking an Economic Evaluation

Critically Examining an Economic Evaluation


Latest updates

  • − Free online certificate course in Basic Course on Health Economics
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  • − Next Batch from 1st November to 31st March , 2025
  • − Free online certificate course in Economic Evaluation For Health Technology Assessment
  • − Click here for apply in Advance course in HTA Click..
  • − Next Batch from 1st November to 31st May , 2025
  • Organized a special session entitled: “iHEA 2021 Special session: Necessity as the mother of invention: Locally adapted Health Technology Assessment as a driver of methodological and institutional innovation” and also delivered a talk on the topic “Developing Reference Case for HTA in India: Adaptation in the Drugs, Devices and Programs” at International Health Economics Association conference, on July 12-15, 2021.
  • Organized the “Workshop on Health Economics” at Advanced Peadiatric Centre, PGIMER- ICMR Centre for Evidence Based Child Health on May 21, 2021
  • Conducted training on “Costing of Healthcare Services” in association with the Department of Health Research and the International Decision Support Initiative, London on March 24-25, 2021.
  • Organized an online Roundtable Consultation on the “Role of Supplementary Mechanisms in Financing Immunization in India” on October 28, 2020.
  • CME on Economics of Health and Health Care on 9th March 2021, Chandigarh during the 48th National Conference of Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine (virtual), Chandigarh, India.
  • CME on Financing for Universal Health Coverage at the 60th National Conference of Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine, Shimla (HP), India, March 2019.
  • National Consultation on Health Financing Policies in India in New Delhi, Feb 27, 2019. Co-organized with the Centre for Health Economics, York University, UK & GiZ, India