ECTS
120 credits
Duration
2 years
Training structure
Faculty of Economics
Presentation
The Health Systems Economics program is part of the Master's Degree in Economics offered by the Faculty of Economics, in the field of Law, Economics, and Management.
The program focuses on economic issues in healthcare systems. An aging population and technical advances in healthcare are leading to major changes in the organization of care and the financing of healthcare systems. These changes require a more integrated definition of patient pathways and trajectories and the emergence of new players and tools for regulating healthcare provision.
Objectives
The Master's program aims to train economists specializing in the evaluation of programs and policies in the field of health and social action, based on dual expertise in health economics and quantitative methods.
Know-how and skills
The skills developed are those involved in designing, managing, and implementing evaluation processes for systems and programs related to healthcare organization: for example, developing care pathways, structuring coordinated healthcare provision, and regional consolidation projects.
Students have a very good knowledge of social protection systems.
They acquire specific skills in healthcare systems and their transformations (chronic diseases, e-health, breaking down barriers between city and hospital, and care and support), as well as in the evaluation and management of health programs.
The training enables them to develop expertise in healthcare supply regulation tools, 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, multi-criteria analysis, performance measurements).
The training also provides mastery of patient participation methods and tools in order to promote patient-centered solutions and openness to issues of inequality and access to care.
She has mastered communication and project management techniques, as well as analytical skills and rigor.
Organization
Program
Master's 1:
At the Master 1 level, the choice has been made to share resources extensively with other courses in the Economics program 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) associated with software proficiency.
The Master 1 program includes two health economics courses specific to the program, focusing respectively on the organization and financing of health systems (semester 1) and the regulation of health systems (semester 2). The compulsory research project in Master 1 allows students to use the quantitative tools they have acquired to answer a question related to the challenges of organizing or regulating health systems.
Master 1 - Semester 1
EU
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, 20 hours of lectures)
Econometrics (4ECTS, 30 hours of lectures, 15 hours of tutorials)
Survey Methods (4ECTS, 20 hours of lectures, 9 hours of tutorials)
Introduction to SAS (3ECTS, 15 hours of tutorials)
Master 1 - Semester 2
EU
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)
Econometrics of qualitative variables (4ECTS, 10hCM, 15hTD)
Data analysis (3ECTS, 10hCM, 15hTD)
Excel VBA (3ECTS, 15hTD)
The Master 2 program is organized around six teaching units:
1. Evaluation methodology
2. Medical-economic evaluation
3. Health project management
4. Challenges in the organization of care
5. Challenges for health systems
6. Communication and professional development tools.
Courses 2 and 4 are shared with the Master's program in Statistics and Health Sciences at the Faculty of Medicine.
Choose one of two options:
Introduction to SAS
Project management and financial evaluation
3 creditsDigital transformation of the economy
Econometrics
Introduction to R software
1 creditPIR
Law and economics
2 creditsSurvey methods
Healthcare and social protection system
5 creditsOptional
Optional
Choose one of two options:
Economics of innovation and intellectual property
3 creditsIndustrial organization
4 creditsHealthcare system regulation
Excel VBA
3 creditsEconometrics of qualitative variables
PIR
5 creditsData analysis
3 credits
Double difference methods
3 creditsHealth and Digital Technology
3 creditsHealth and territories
2 creditsEvaluation of public policies
3 creditsMultidisciplinary primary care and care pathways
2 creditsMeasuring well-being in assessment methods
2 creditsAdvanced SAS
2 creditsEnglish
2 creditsEconomic assessment and market access
2 creditsPrinciples of medical-economic evaluation
3 creditsEvaluation of non-market effects
3 creditsIntroduction to epidemiology and clinical research methods
3 credits
And after
Continuing education
The training also provides an opportunity to present the EN3S competition, which trains leaders of social protection organizations.
The Master's degree in Economics in general, and the Health Systems Economics track in particular, allows students to continue their studies at the doctoral level.
Professional integration
Graduates find employment in healthcare administration (ministries, CNAM, MSA, HAS, ARS), as well as in the private sector in mutual insurance companies and provident institutions, NGOs, consulting firms, and pharmaceutical companies. Targeted positions include management roles such as research manager and project manager.