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MPH5317 · Healthcare and economic management
2026 Handbook6 credit pointsLevel 5School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine
Last checked: 23 Aug 2026 UTCOverview
The complexities of care delivery in the ever-evolving world of health services has never been more challenging or significant. Healthcare delivery and funding are intertwined, thereby fluency in health economics is essential. The ability to evaluate cost effectiveness of transforming care practices has become essential as government funding for health is increasingly interpreted as funding quality outcomes. In this unit you will explore concepts of resource allocation and will analyse and compare funding for competing health needs. You will investigate the production of health care and services within an economic framework, incorporating/cementing this knowledge with case studies. It will also include critical analysis of the impact of innovation and how this is incorporated into current health care funding, utilising systematic methods and evidence-based medicine in the form of economic evaluations and their application.
Offerings
| Campus | Teaching period | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| Monash Online | Teaching period 3 | Monash Online (MO) |
Assessment
The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.
| # | Assessment | Type | Weight | Hurdle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Online development activities (3 x 800 words) | Exercise | 40% | — |
| 2 | Case study (2,400 words) | Written | 40% | — |
| 3 | Critical appraisal reflection (1,200 words) | Written | 20% | Threshold |
Assessment in this unit includes hurdle assessment tasks. Failure of any hurdle assessment task may result in failure of the unit.
Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.
Requisites
prohibitions
- MPH5264 — Economic management in healthcare
Learning outcomes
- Categorise the funding impacts of the Australian healthcare system in the context of service delivery.
- Apply principles of health economics to the allocation of resources within health care.
- Appraise and interpret economic production function for healthcare, and how service delivery is structured around economic production and innovation.
- Analyse and evaluate resource allocation in healthcare and the use and role of economic evaluations in decision-making.
- Critically appraise peer-reviewed published economic evaluations in order to apply the evidence to healthcare.
Workload
24 hours per week including directed and self-directed learning (including any asynchronous and synchronous tasks, prescribed activities and independent work).
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