Get a comprehensive view by exploring the Master in Health Economics, Policy & Law approaches to the complexities of healthcare systems. Healthcare systems worldwide face complicated challenges. Policymakers want to retain or improve access to good-quality healthcare, but they also want to keep systems affordable for patients and taxpayers. Meanwhile, healthcare expenditure is increasing, demographics are changing, expectations are higher, and expensive new treatments are becoming available.

MSc in Economics and Business with a Specialisation in Health Economics is a major sector of a modern economy, accounting for 10-18% of GDP in high-income countries. Advances in medical technology generate substantial improvements in population health but also create major economic and social challenges. Healthcare costs are rising rapidly. Population aging both increases the need for health care and reduces the fraction of people working to pay for it. Health inequalities remain stubbornly high and further reduce productivity.

Het Europese Master in Health Economics and Management-programma streeft naar uitmuntendheid op het gebied van gezondheidseconomie en -management, waarbij het gezamenlijke Europese masterprogramma wordt gegeven door de vier beste Europese universiteiten op dit gebied. Het eerste semester begint in Bologna, het tweede, derde en laatste semester kun je zelf bepalen. Tijdens deze tweejarige masteropleiding kun je ervoor kiezen om in Oslo, Innsbruck of Rotterdam te studeren.

De Research Master-programma in Health Sciences is bedoeld om studenten te voorzien van een grondig begrip van methoden in zowel klinische of volksgezondheid onderzoek. Specialisaties omvatten klinische epidemiologie, epidemiologie, volksgezondheidsepidemiologie, genetische en moleculaire epidemiologie en gezondheidseconomische analyse.