Sustainable Development Policy Institute

• Introduction
• Who should attend?
• Objectives
• Training methodology
• Medium of instructions
• Workshop Contents
• Resource person
• Deadline for registration
• Registration fee
• Discount
• Withdrawal requests
• Cancellation/Postponement
• Award of certificates
• Further information
• Registration form

Introduction
Evaluative studies have become a standard practice in many fields to examine efficiency and usefulness of their programs. There is also a growing awareness of how to allocate scarce resources among alternative healthcare programs that ensure equity and economic efficiency. Evaluative studies -- cost-effectiveness, cost-utility and cost-benefit-- attempt to consider the costs of a treatment or intervention relative to the health outcomes produced. Often, the costs and outcomes of a new treatment are compared to those of an existing treatment to determine if an efficient use of resources might be gained from adopting the new approach. The workshop will be an extensive exercise to study relevance of economic evaluation in health care, and address health policy issues relating to resource allocation and the trade-offs between economic, ethical and social criteria for decision-making.

Who should attend?
Targeted to meet the needs of public health professionals, the workshop is designed to equip participants with the theoretical understanding of economic evaluation of public health programs and to evaluate their quality and validity. The audience for the workshop is personnel from, provincial and federal health departments, provincial and federal planning departments, Cabinet and Finance Division, Planning and Development Division, the Ministry of Health, university and college students, media related to social sector development and reforms, social development sector analysts, international organizations and non-governmental organizations.

Objectives
By the end of the workshop, participants will:

• Recognize how scarcity of healthcare resources necessitates making choices. Be aware of how share of national income is devoted to certain healthcare activities, and know the relative importance of alternative healthcare programs.
• Identify the ways in which health care is similar to, or different from other sectors of the economy, and why economic evaluation is important before any policy decision is undertaken in the health sector.
• Have strengthened analytical skills and the ability to apply economic evaluation techniques in health and health care.
• Recognize the difference between cost-benefit, cost-effectiveness and cost utility analysis.

Training methodology
The training will be interactive and participatory, including lectures, Power Point presentations, informal discussions, group exercises and experience sharing.

Medium of instructions
Though English will be the medium of instruction, a mixture of English and Urdu will be used to conduct the workshop.

Workshop Contents

Module 1: Introduction to Economic Evaluation

• Basic types of economic evaluation
• Meaning and importance of economic evaluation
• Techniques of economic evaluation

Module 2: Cost Containment for Health Care

• Introduction to economic costs of health care programs
• Need to minimize costs
• Cost minimization techniques

Module 3: Cost Effectiveness Analysis (CEA)

• Chosen measure of effectiveness
• How to obtain effectiveness data
• Cost Effectiveness Ratios
• Incremental Cost Effectiveness ratios

Module 4: Cost Utility Analysis (CUA)

• Utilities, values and preferences
• Health Utilities Index
• Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALYS).

Module 5: Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA)

• Scope of cost benefit analysis
• Assigning money values to health outcomes (The human capital approach)

Resource persons
Dr Shafqat Shehzad, a Research Fellow (Health) at SDPI, obtained her PhD in Economics from the University of Sussex, England. A pioneering health economist in Pakistan, her experience in Health Economics includes training and research on economic evaluation of health programs. Dr Shehzad has also worked extensively on the determinants of child health at the national and cross country levels. Her work relates to exploring various aspects of child health, including determinants of mortality, child survival in Pakistan and measurement models for child's unobservable health status. Dr Shehzad has also worked on economic evaluation of healthcare programs that aim at providing early intervention to hard of hearing children in Canada. She has presented her work internationally at prestigious conferences on population and health economics held in Hawaii, Istanbul, York, Hong Kong and Khatmandu. Currently, Dr Shehzad is responsible for developing an integrated program on health in Pakistan, extending her work not only in the Southern context but outlook for the North. Her research will cover, but not limited to, economic evaluation of health care programs, child health, gender and health disparities, health and environment, and macro-economic aspects of health. Dr Shehzad has published her work on issues relating to health unobservability, measurement and cross-country comparisons of infant and child mortality. Before joining SDPI, Dr Shehzad was Assistant Professor of Economics Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad and adjunct faculty, Fatima Jinnah University and Health Services Academy MoH.

Deadline for registration
Completed Registration forms should reach the Senior Training Coordinator via fax or mail latest by 14 June 2005. The institute will confirm registration upon receipt of fee by a return fax. Please use a separate registration form for each nominee. Please note that seats are limited and applicants will be registered on a first come, first served basis. Registration will close if all the seats are taken up before the last date.

Registration fee
Fee per participant is Rs 4,250/-

Discount

25% discount is available to the following:

• SDPI members
• HRDN members on each nomination (HRDN members should send their nominations through HRDN secretariat)
• PEP partners on each nomination
• Students registering through their institutions
• Other organizations registering 2 or more persons

Withdrawal requests will be processed as under:

10 or more days before workshop	Full refund
Nine to four days before workshop	75 percent refund
Three days before workshop	50 percent refund
Two or less days before workshop	No refund

Cancellation/postponement
SDPI reserves the right to cancel or postpone the workshop if circumstances require. In such an event, SDPI will ensure that registered participants are informed as soon as possible. SDPI will also refund registration fees according to our refund procedures.

Award of certificates
Trainees successfully completing 85 percent of the workshop would be awarded certificates.

Further information
For further details, please contact Assistant Training Coordinator, Arshad Aziz ( aaziz@sdpi.org ) at tel. ++92-51-2278134 or fax: 92-51-2278135.

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