ECTS
120 credits
Duration
2 years
Training structure
Faculty of Economics
Presentation
The Economics of Health Care Systems program is part of the Master's degree in Economics offered by the Faculty of Economics, in the Law-Economy-Management field.
The course focuses on economic issues in health systems. The aging of the population and technical progress in health care are generating major transformations in the organization of care and in the financing of health care systems. This implies a more integrated definition of patient pathways and trajectories and the emergence of new actors and tools for regulating the supply of care.
Objectives
The Master's degree aims to train economists specializing in the evaluation of programs and policies in the field of health and social action, based on a dual competence in health economics and quantitative methods.
Know-how and skills
The skills developed are those of designing, steering and implementing evaluation procedures for systems and programs related to the organization of care: for example, the development of care paths, the structuring of a coordinated care offer, and territorial grouping projects.
Students are equipped with a very good knowledge of social welfare systems.
They acquire specific skills in health care and health systems and their transformations (chronicisation of pathologies, e-health, decompartmentalisation of city/hospital and care/accompaniment) as well as in the evaluation and management of health programs.
The training enables them to develop a mastery of the tools for regulating the supply of care, methods and tools for processing health data (individual data and health account data), and methods for evaluating health programs and interventions (impact analysis, efficiency analysis, multicriteria analysis, performance measures).
The training also allows for a mastery of patient participation methods and tools in order to promote patient-centered solutions and an openness to the issues of inequality and access to care.
It ensures a mastery of communication and project management techniques as well as analytical skills and rigor.
Organization
Program
Master 1:
At the Master 1 level, the choice is made to have a strong mutualization with the other courses of the Economics mention in order to develop both the students' skills in economic theory (industrial organization, economics of innovation and intellectual property) and also quantitative tools (econometrics, survey methods, data analysis) associated with the mastery of software.
Master 1 includes two courses in health economics specific to the program, focusing respectively on the organization and financing of health systems (semester 1) and on the regulation of health systems (semester 2). The compulsory research project in Master 1 allows students to use the quantitative tools acquired to answer a question related to the organization or regulation of health systems.
Master 1 - Semester 1
UE
English (2ECTS, 10hCM, 10hTD)
Individual Research Project (3ECTS, 6hCM, 3hTD)
Project Management and Financial Evaluation (3ECTS, 20hCM, 9hTD)
Health System and Social Protection (5ECTS, 30hCM)
Digital Transformation of the Economy (3ECTS, 30hCM)
Economics of Law (3ECTS, 20hCM)
Econometrics (4ECTS, 30hCM, 15hTD)
Survey Methods (4ECTS, 20hCM, 9hTD)
Introduction to SAS (3ECTS, 15hTD)
Master 1 - Semester 2
UE
English (2ECTS, 10hCM, 10hTD)
Individual Research Project (5ECTS, 12hTD)
Regulation of health systems (6ECTS, 30hCM)
Industrial organization (4ECTS, 30hCM, 15hTD)
Economics of innovation and industrial property (36ECTS, 30hCM, 15hTD) 36ECTS, 30hCM)
Econometrics of qualitative variables (4ECTS, 10hCM, 15hTD)
Data analysis (3ECTS, 10hCM, 15hTD)
Excel VBA (3ECTS, 15hTD)
The Master 2 is organized around 6 UE :
1. evaluation methodology
2. medico-economic evaluation
3. Conducting health projects
4. Issues in the organization of care
5. Issues for health systems
6. Communication and professionalization tools.
The UE 2, 4 are shared with the master Statistics and Health Sciences of the Faculty of Medicine.
Your choice: 1 of 2
Introduction SAS
Project management and financial evaluation
3 creditsDigital transformation of the economy
Econometrics
Introduction to R software
1 creditsPIR
Legal economics
2 creditsSurvey methods
Healthcare and social protection
5 creditsOptional
Optional
Your choice: 1 of 2
Economics of innovation and intellectual property
3 creditsIndustrial organization
4 creditsRegulation of healthcare systems
6 creditsExcel VBA
3 creditsEconometrics of qualitative variables
4 creditsPIR
5 creditsData analysis
3 credits
Double-difference methods
3 creditsHealth and Digital
3 creditsHealth and territories
2 creditsPublic policy evaluation
3 creditsMulti-professional primary care and care pathways
2 creditsMeasuring well-being in assessment methods
2 creditsAdvanced SAS
2 creditsEnglish
2 creditsEconomic evaluation and market access
2 creditsPrinciples of medico-economic evaluation
3 creditsEvaluation of non-market effects
3 creditsIntroduction to epidemiology and clinical research methods
3 credits
And then
Further studies
The training also allows students to take the EN3S competitive examination, which trains the managers of social protection organizations.
The Master's degree in Economics in general, and the Health Systems Economics program in particular, allows students to continue their studies at the doctoral level.
Professional integration
The professional insertion is done in the administrations of the health system (ministry, CNAM, MSA, HAS, ARS), but also in the private sector of mutual insurance companies and provident institutions, NGOs, research offices, pharmaceutical industries. The job profiles targeted are management positions with profiles of study managers and project managers.