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EPH4003
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Identifying and Assessing Good and Best Practices in Health
Period 2: from 28-10-2024 to 20-12-2024
Co-requisites:
None
Coordinator:
Zvonareva, O. / Czabanowska, K.
ECTS credits:
5
Language of instruction:
English
Publication dates timetable/results in the Student Portal
Deadline publication timetable
The date on which the timetable of this module is available:
11-10-2024
Deadline publication final result
The date on which the final grade of this module is available: 24-1-2025
Resit booking
Exam booking for a test in current academic year (resit)
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Exam booking for a test from a previous academic year (exam only)
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Course information
Description:
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EN: In this third module, students are introduced to the evaluation of prevention and care in the European region, and to the identification and selection of best practices. They learn about models for evaluation and selection of best practices based upon criteria of equity, humanity, client satisfaction, efficiency, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness; they familiarise themselves with the methodology to assess the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of prevention and care; and learn how these models and methods can be applied for cross-national comparison. In addition, they learn how to apply systematic reviews and benchmarking with a view to standardisation and best practices. The methodologies of health impact assessment (HIA) and health technology assessment (HTA) are introduced and applied. The students also study the international comparability of cost of illness. 2. Module Content 2.a. Contents: At the start of the module, students learn about different approaches to the evaluation of prevention and care. They are introduced to the different goals of process versus output and outcome evaluation, and learn about the methods for the assessment of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of interventions for prevention and care. Specifically, they are introduced to the hierarchy of evidence for defining best practices, including systematic reviews and meta-analysis, randomised controlled trials, cohort studies, case-control studies, cross-sectional surveys, case reports, and expert opinions. They are also introduced to criteria and protocols that have been specifically designed to address scientific evidence for public health interventions, including the Cochrane Library and review protocols, and are invited to critically reflect on the applicability of these approaches to public health and health promotion. In close connection to the Essentials and Project strands, the students gain a thorough understanding of systematic reviews and economic evaluation (notably cost-effectiveness, cost-benefit and cost-utility analyses). The different steps of a systematic review process and the methodologies of health impact assessment (HIA), health technology assessment including economic evaluation (HTA) are introduced and applied. Next, the students learn how to apply these models and methods for cross-national comparison and they explore methods for benchmarking based on standardisations and best practices. Further emphasis is given to the question how cross-national and cross-regional research methodology is feasible. Students learn to identify pitfalls in cross- national and regional research and how to improve such research methodologically. This means using techniques to assure comparability and standardisation of the methods employed in each country. As this is the first module to deal explicitly with the concept of ‘best practice’, students critically reflect on this concept from the perspective of the philosophy of health sciences. A first strand of discussion leaves from a critical appraisal of evidence-based medicine (and Randomised Controlled Trials) and leads to lessons to learn for European Public Health. To consolidate the understanding of evaluation and review, respectively, and to learn how to apply the theoretical knowledge, practice sessions are foreseen to learn to apply the different steps of a systematic review process and of health impact assessment and health technology assessment. In addition, a field trip to Luxembourg will be arranged to sensitise the students to topics for Module 4, including: policymaking and the world of politics, ‘lobbying’ to the European Institutions and working with civil society. The trip involves visits to a Directorate General of the European Commission, the Executive Agency for Health and Consumers, and possibly the European Parliament.
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Goals:
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EN: Objectives Knowledge and understanding At the end of the module, students have - insight in and knowledge of definitions and concepts of evaluation - insight in and knowledge about models and methods to assess effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, cost-benefit and cost-utility - insight in and knowledge about methods for systematic review and selection of best practices - insight in and knowledge about techniques to ensure cross-national comparability and standardisation - insight in and knowledge about concepts, models and methods of benchmarking - insight in and knowledge about methodologies of health impact assessment (HIA) and health technology assessment (HTA) - insight in basic concepts of sociology of science - insight in meta-analysis, systematic reviews and observational research designs Application of knowledge and understanding At the end of the module, students are able to: - understand the concept and role of evaluation in prevention and care - are able to apply methods to select and define best practices in prevention and care - are able to formulate a design or protocol to assess effectiveness of practices in prevention and care - understand the quantitative aspects of effectiveness, cost- effectiveness and cost-utility analysis and of systematic reviews - understand the difficulties and pitfalls in cross-national and cross- regional research - are able to apply the concepts, models and methods of benchmarking - understand the methods of health impact assessment (HIA) and health technology assessment (HTA) Making judgements At the end of the module, students are able to: - critically reflect on the concepts of context, European culture and (scientific) culture - critically reflect on approaches to evaluation, evaluation studies and best practices - critically reflect on cross-national and cross-regional comparisons of prevention and care - make suggestions for evidence-based improvement of prevention and care practices Communication At the end of the module students are able to: - communicate in a professional way with researchers, health experts, policy makers and other representatives of European organisations about issues of evaluation, effectiveness and best practices in health across the EU - write, discuss and present issues of evaluation, effectiveness and best practices in health across the EU in a professional manner Learning skills At the end of the module, students a e able to: - read, understand and comment on published evaluation studies and reviews - select appropriate methods to assess prevention and care practices in a cross-national context - search for, identify, analyse and interpret key information to underpin recommendations for improvement of practices in prevention and care
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Key words:
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EN: Good practice, best practice, evaluation,
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Literature:
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This is the link to Keylinks, our online reference list.
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Teaching methods:
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- Assignment(s)
- Lecture(s)
- Problem Based Learning
- Presentation(s)
- Training(s)
- Working visit(s)
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Assessments methods:
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This page was last modified on:11-4-2018
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