Health Economics Workshop, Cairo
Introduction to Economic Evaluation with Special Application to Non-Communicable Diseases
Cairo, Egypt 16-18 December 2012
A three-day capacity-building workshop was organised by WHO-EMRO to introduce researchers from partner academic and research institutions in the RESCAP-Med project to the principles of economic evaluation of health care programmes and its application as related to NCD prevention, surveillance and management. This was the first of a series of workshops aimed at building research capacity in the area of Economic Evaluation in partner countries.
Aim and Objectives
The aim of the Workshop was to build national research capacities in the area of Economic Evaluation of health programmes.
By the end of the workshop, participants would be able to:
- identify the fundamental purpose and use of economic evaluation to aid priority setting in the health sector;
- distinguish the features of the various types of Economic Evaluation;
- use Economic Evaluation results to aid priority setting and encourage immediate action to monitor, manage and prevent non-communicable diseases in country-specific settings.
Content
The workshop covered the following topics:
- Principles of Economic Evaluation
- Types and features of Economic Evaluation; e.g., Cost-Effectiveness, Cost-Utility and Cost-Benefit Analyses
- Country-applications of Economic Evaluation to aid priority setting and encourage immediate action to deliver an effective, realistic and affordable package of interventions and services for people with NCDs.
Programme
The two day workshop included formal presentations, interactive discussions and group exercises on the main topics to familiarise participants with selected country applications.
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Day 1: Sunday, 16 December 2012 |
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08:15 – 08:30 |
Registration |
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08:30 – 08:45 |
Opening Remarks by Dr Ala Alwan, Regional Director |
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08:45 – 09:00 |
Workshop Objectives |
Dr Awad Mataria |
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09:00 – 11:00 |
General introduction to Health Economic |
Dr Awad Mataria
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11:00 – 11:130 |
Coffee Break |
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11:30 – 13:30 |
Introduction to Economic Evaluation |
Dr Awad Mataria
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13:30 – 14:30 |
Lunch Break |
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14:30 – 16:00 |
Introduction to Cost Analysis |
Dr Kaan Sözmen |
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16:00 – 16:30 |
Coffee Break |
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16:30 – 17:30 |
Exercise on Cost Analysis application to NCDs
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Dr Kaan Sözmen |
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Day 2: Monday, 17 December 2012 |
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08:30 – 10:30 |
Introduction to Cost-Effectiveness Analysis |
Dr Awad Mataria
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10:30 – 11:00 |
Coffee Break |
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11:00 – 13:00 |
Exercise on Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Application to NCDs |
Dr Awad Mataria
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13:00 – 14:00 |
Lunch Break |
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14:00 – 15:30 |
Introduction to Cost-Utility Analysis Decision trees and Markov Modelling |
Dr Awad Mataria & Dr Kaan Sözmen |
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15:30 – 16:00 |
Coffee Break |
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16:00 – 17:00 |
Exercise on Markov Modelling with Application to NCDs |
Dr Kaan Sözmen |
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Day 3: Tuesday, 18 December 2012 |
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08:30 – 10:30 |
Introduction to Cost-Benefit Analysis |
Dr Awad Mataria
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10:30 – 11:00 |
Coffee Break |
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11:00 – 13:00 |
Exercise on Cost-Benefit Analysis Application to NCDs |
Dr Awad Mataria |
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13:00 – 14:00 |
Lunch Break |
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14:00 – 15:00 |
Plenary Discussions Closure |
Dr Sameen Siddiqi. Director/HSD |
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Participants
A group of researchers from the six RESCAP-Med-Mediterranean partner institutions (three participants from each partner country) in addition to selected health economics and health policy experts from a few other EMR countries and relevant WHO staff were the target audience for this workshop. In total 13 participants attended. There were 3 participants from Jordan, Turkey and Tunisia and 2 participants from Palestine and Lebanon. Due to socio-political instability within the country there were no participants to this workshop from Syria. The participants were mainly female and early and mid-career researchers (Table 3.2 and 3.3).
Distribution of participants by country and gender
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Country |
Number of Participants |
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Female |
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Jordan |
3 |
2 |
1 |
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Turkey |
3 |
1 |
2 |
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Palestine |
2 |
0 |
2 |
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Tunisia |
3 |
1 |
2 |
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Lebanon |
2 |
0 |
2 |
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Syria |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Total |
13 |
4 |
9 |
Facilitators
Dr Awad Mataria from WHO/EMRO designed and co-ordinated the workshop with help of Dr Kaan Sözmen form Dokuz Eylül University of Izmir and Dr Sameen Siddiqi from WHO/EMRO. Dr Shahaduz Zaman, from Newcastle University, participated as an observer.
Feedback
The workshop received very positive feedback from all participants.
