Master of Health Economics
Compulsory courses (36 units)
- ECON8039 Health Economics
- EMET8005 Economic Models and Introductory Econometrics or IDEC8017 Econometric Techniques
- ECON8025 Diploma Microeconomics
- And any three of:
Notes
a) Students who have completed EMET6007 Econometric Methods and EMET6008 Econometric Modelling as part of the Graduate Diploma in Applied Economics at ANU are exempt from EMET8005 and must substitute an elective.
b) Students who have completed ECON8025 Diploma Microeconomics as part of the Graduate Diploma in Applied Economics at ANU are exempt from this course in the Masters program and must substitute an elective.
c) Students entering directly into the Masters program may apply to the Course Convenor for exemption from either or both of EMET8005 and ECON8025 if they can demonstrate that they have undertaken equivalent coursework elsewhere. If approved, they must substitute electives for these courses.
Electives (12 units)
Students will not normally be permitted to count courses as electives that have been taken towards satisfying the requirements of an alternate degree program.
- ECON8002 Applied Welfare Economics
- ECON8003 Economic Policy Issues
- ECON8010 Public Economics
- ECON8011 Microeconomic Theory A
- ECON8018 Cost-Benefit Analysis
- ECON8022 Macroeconomic Theory
- ECON8034 Principles of Public Economics
- ECON8038 Industrial Organisation
- ECON8041 Labour Economics and Industrial Relations
- ECON8047 Law and Economics
- ECON8053 Strategic Thinking: An Introduction to Game Theory
- EMET8001 Applied Micro-econometrics
- EMET8014 Advanced Econometric Methods
- DEMO8008 Principles of Population Analysis
- DEMO8011 Demographic Analysis II
- DEMO8079 Health Demography
- IDEC8053 Environmental Economics
- IDEC8088 Applied Economics: Cost/Benefit Analysis
- ECON8070 Political Economy of Macroeconomic Policy
- ECON8073 Applied Health Econometrics
- ECON8074 Economics of Health Insurance and Financing
- ECON8075 Economic Evaluation of Health Programs
- POPH8100 Epidemiology
Note
a) Courses in this list are not available if previously taken.
b) Students should check that they satisfy the prerequisites of each of their Elective courses and must confirm their choice of Electives with the Program convenor.
c) Not all of these courses may be offered in any particular semester or year.
Working Rules
Working Rules for this program are available here
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