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Applied Economic Modeling for the Veterinary Sciences

Many economic tools have been developed and are currently being applied to support decisions concerning animal health. These include basic methods such as partial budgeting, cost-benefit analysis and decision analysis, but also more advanced methodologies such as linear programming, the Markov chain and Monte Carlo simulation. You will learn about all of these, together with how to detail the critical steps in a systems analysis and choose appropriate modeling types and techniques.

By gaining greater knowledge of economic concepts and theory during this course, you will be able to contribute in an informed manner to economic decision-making discussions, policy development and implementation.

By the end of the course, you should be able to:

  • Analyze economic problems using basic methods such as partial budgeting, cost-benefit analysis and decision analysis
  • Detail the critical steps in system analysis and choose appropriate modeling types and techniques
  • Describe the use of more advanced methodologies such as linear programming, Markov chains and Monte Carlo simulations
  • Describe the uses of social cost-benefit analysis and multi-criteria analysis
  • Discuss the importance of animal health economics in decision-making, implementation and evaluation of animal health programs, and in policy development and implementation processes.

Entry requirements

  • A BSc or MSc, or a similar level of academic ability
  • A basic understanding of veterinary epidemiology, statistical and mathematical applications*
  • Basic MS Excel skills
  • Sufficient proficiency in English reading and writing

* You require some understanding of economics (at least in broad terms) from your previous education or professional experience. Terminology such as fixed and variable costs, supply and demand, depreciation and interest should be familiar.

You can gain the knowledge required for this course by following the course Economic Principles and Concepts in the Veterinary Sciences

Basic economic and microeconomic information is also available via Wikipedia.org and other internet sources, such as the following:

  • http://www.freeeconomicsbooks.com
  • http://www.mcafee.cc/Introecon
  • http://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&tbo=1&q=economics

You will need to be able to do some basic calculations with the MS Excel functions. If you lack MS Excel skills,use the Excel ‘help’ function or do an online tutorial here:  http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/training/get-to-know-excel-enter-formulas-RZ006107930.aspx

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As this is an online course, you do need access to an internet connection in order to be able to follow lectures, complete assignments and communicate with fellow participants.

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Our Professors

Wilma Steenveld PhD

Dr. ir. Steeneveld is Assistant Professor on Veterinary Economics at Utrecht University.

She teaches the online courses Applied Economic Modeling for the Veterinary Sciences and Economic Principles and Concepts for the Veterinary Sciences.

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I would recommend this course to anyone who is actively involved in animal production systems and to people who are involved with decisions about animal health at a governmental level. The Applied Economic modelling course was a well structured course that described various types of economic models and how they could be used to analyse animal health economics in various production systems. What I really enjoyed was the process of reading, watching and digesting the supplied information, interacting with a diverse group of people and then applying what I had learnt to my local context such that I could really understand the concepts covered in the chapters.

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Quick overview

Start date: 14 Nov 2022

3 ECTS

Web lectures, exercises, group discussions

Duration: 6 weeks

Academic Certificate

English

Workload: 14 hrs-per-week

Online learning, with guidance and support

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How would you like to study Epidemiology?

Single courses

One of the unique aspects of our learning approach is that you can choose to take an individual course rather than the whole MSc program. Experience one course from the MSc, having the same faculty and classmates with the convenience of self-enrollment.
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Online

In the full part-time MSc Program, you gain extensive knowledge and practical skills in patient-oriented research design, quantitative analysis and its application to human or veterinary medicine. The MSc Epidemiology Online starts in February and September.
Online Program

Face-to-Face

If your prefer to study in a face-to-face setting, you might want to consider applying for the identical fulltime face-to-face 1,5 year program in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

This program also starts in September, with the same course offerings.

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Questions? Contact us

By email
For questions about online learning info@elevatehealth.eu
For program information, admission & content msc-epidemiology@umcutrecht.nl

By phone
For questions about online learning +31 (0)85 4885381
For program information, admission & content +31 (0)88 7569710

Master Structure

  • 8 core courses
  • 3 specialization tracks
  • Research project

Specializations

  • Clinical Epidemiology
  • Veterinary Epidemiology
  • General Epidemiology

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The study of Epidemiology

Epidemiology has grown to be an indispensable asset for researchers, clinicians and practitioners. Far reaching in its impact. It is the foundation of evidence-based medicine for the individual patient and the cornerstone of public health policy for societies.

Epidemiology as a scientific discipline is an excellent option; for the doctor, who wishes to be armed with both biomedical knowledge and statistical wisdom when looking for the right patient care of their individual patient. Also for the public health professional, who faced with global health questions does not wish to lose sight of the impact for the individual. And for the veterinarian who is faced with challenges that play a national role yet must look at the impact on individual cases.
 
 

A Master of Epidemiology at Utrecht University

Epidemiology at Utrecht University is uniquely placed to offer you the broad context of epidemiology across human pharmaceutical and veterinarian branches. Not least through having the only faculty of veterinary medicine in the Netherlands, its content has been assembled across an impressive faculty from the Health sciences; Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences (UIPS) and the interfaculty Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS). In addition, Utrecht Science Park accommodates Utrecht Life Sciences, a strategic alliance between academia, public institutions private organizations and government in order to drive innovations in human and veterinary health care.

 
 

Online Education

It goes beyond the obvious advantages of online education, in the flexibility of allowing students to study at their institute of choice wherever their research or practice is. Online education at Utrecht University is where every student counts, each opinion being valued. It specifically helps students to develop skills on how to give and get the best out of feedback on assignments or research projects.

The MSc Epidemiology from Utrecht University has a unique history. The learning platform was custom built for this program. It was built with a global classroom in mind. Taking into account how to incorporate individual experiences and allow each unique perspective to make the learning experience the best possible and truly global. The content was meticulously converted to an online variant to take advantage of this.

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