ECTS
120 credits
Duration
2 years
Training structure
Faculty of Economics
Presentation
The Economics of Healthcare Systems program is part of the Economics Master's degree offered by the Faculty of Economics, in the Law-Economy-Management field.
The course focuses on economic issues in healthcare systems. The aging of the population and technical advances in healthcare are generating major transformations in the organization of care and the financing of healthcare systems. This implies a more integrated definition of patient pathways and trajectories, and the emergence of new players and tools to regulate healthcare provision.
Objectives
The aim of the Master's program is to train economists specializing in the evaluation of programs and policies in the field of health and social action, drawing on a dual expertise in health economics and quantitative methods.
Know-how and skills
The skills developed are those needed to design, manage and implement assessment procedures for systems and programs linked to the organization of care: for example, the development of care paths, the structuring of a coordinated care offer, and territorial grouping projects.
Students have a very good knowledge of social protection systems.
They acquire specific skills in healthcare systems and their transformations (chronicization of pathologies, e-health, decompartmentalization of city/hospital and care/support), as well as in the evaluation and management of healthcare programs.
The training enables them to develop mastery of tools for regulating healthcare provision, methods and tools for processing health data (individual data and health account data), and methods for evaluating healthcare programs and interventions (impact analysis, efficiency analysis, multi-criteria analysis, performance measurement).
The training also provides a mastery of patient participation methods and tools to promote patient-centered solutions, and an openness to issues of inequality and access to care.
It ensures mastery of communication and project management techniques, as well as analytical skills and rigor.
Organization
Program
Master 1 :
At Master 1 level, we have opted for a high degree of mutualization with the other courses in the Economics specialization, in order to develop students' skills in economic theory (industrial organization, economics of innovation and intellectual property) as well as quantitative tools (econometrics, survey methods, data analysis) combined with mastery of software.
Master 1 includes 2 health economics courses specific to the program, focusing respectively on the organization and financing of healthcare systems (semester 1) and the regulation of healthcare systems (semester 2). The compulsory research project in Master 1 enables students to use the quantitative tools they have acquired to answer a question linked to the organization or regulation of healthcare 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 Care 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)
Projet Individuel de Recherche (5ECTS, 12hTD)
Régulation des systèmes de santé (6ECTS, 30hCM)
Organisation industrielle (4ECTS, 30hCM, 15hTD)
Éco. de l'innovation et de la propriété indus. 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 units:
1.evaluation methodology
2.medico-economic evaluation
3. Managing healthcare projects
4. Issues in the organization of care
5. Challenges for healthcare systems
6. Communication and professionalization tools.
Units 2 and 4 are shared with the Faculty of Medicine's Masters in Statistics and Health Sciences.
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 course also qualifies students to sit the EN3S competitive entrance examination, which trains managers for social protection organizations.
The Master's degree in Economics in general, and the Health Systems Economics pathway in particular, enables students to continue their studies at doctoral level.
Professional integration
Graduates enter the healthcare system in government departments (Ministry, CNAM, MSA, HAS, ARS), as well as the private sector, including mutual and provident societies, NGOs, consultancies and the pharmaceutical industry. The job profiles targeted are managerial positions with profiles of research and project managers.