Sustainable Health Economics
PostgraduateTAS-CEA6012025
Course information for 2025 intake
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 13 July 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Start dates
- 21 July 2025
- Price from
- $2,780
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Sustainable Health Economics
About this subject
On successful completion of this subject, students will be able to:
- Appraise and interpret the economic and environmental factors which challenge the sustainability of contemporary healthcare systems.
- Compare the mechanisms by which social, economic, and environmental determinants impact human health outcomes.
- Evaluate theories and evidence on how health, healthcare, the economy and the natural environment interact in both positive and negative ways.
- Devise appropriate organizational responses to improve the economic and environmental sustainability of healthcare services and systems.
- Refer to MyLO for study topics.
This subject will develop your competencies in applying economic and sustainability principles to health and healthcare policy and decision-making. You will learn about the importance of social, economic and environmental factors as determinants of health, and how health and healthcare in turn impact on the wider economy and the natural environment. You will develop a deeper understanding of how health economics theory and techniques can be used to support sustainable, equitable and efficient access to healthcare for all. You will learn about how the unfolding ecological crisis will impact human health, how healthcare services and systems need to change to become environmentally sustainable, and understand new approaches to economic policy and thinking that can better sustain good health and healthcare in the future.
- Issues Briefing (40%)
- Video Presentation (30%)
- Critical Review (30%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- TAS-AHE-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Health Economics)
- TAS-AHE-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Health Economics)
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Teaching Arrangement: 10 hours Self-directed learning weekly
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Health Economics)
PostgraduateTAS-AHE-GDI
Master of Advanced Practice (Health Economics)
PostgraduateTAS-AHE-MAS