General details Increasing pressure on health care budgets worldwide is focusing attention on how best to organise health care systems and the spending within them. These programmes aim to provide you with the skills and confidence to apply the principles of health economics in your professional career. The Certificate programme provides you with the basic principles and tools of health economics. The Diploma programme provides you with these same basic tools and allows you to deepen your knowledge in a specific area. Each module has been designed around a workbook written specially by health economists in York and includes support from a tutor, a web-based learning environment, residential workshops and library services for distance learners.
Module workbooks The module workbooks form the ' core' of each module.
Workbooks contain the basic text for the programme, exercises for you to carry out on your own and in groups, and references to additional reading. You will be allocated a tutor who oversees your progress and who can advise on problems and questions you have on the modules. Residential workshops in York Residential workshops for each module will be run in York where you can take part in seminars and lectures and meet your colleagues and the programme team. Library services You can join our University library and use its distance learning service. Assessment Modules 1 to 4 are assessed by unseen written examination taken in the final week of the module.