HLT POL 239BSpecial Topics in Health Services: Advanced Topics in Decision Analysis and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Health Policy and Management · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
How to conduct uncertainty analyses, understand methods used to construct quality-adjusted life years (QALYs), conduct Markov analyses, critically analyze large-scale published cost-effectiveness analyses (CEAs), effectively present strengths and limitations of published CEAs to peers, and use advanced features of TreeAge software to construct and analyze CEA models, including Markov models. May be repeated for credit with topic change.
Letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: course 239A.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
HLT POL 239B
- HLT POL 239ASpecial Topics in Health Services: Introduction to Decision Analysis and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
- HLT POL 200AHealth Systems Organization and Financing
- HLT POL 200BHealth Systems Organization and Financing
- HLT POL M233Health Policy Analysis
- HLT POL M236Microeconomic Theory of Health Sector
- HLT POL M287Politics of Health Policy
1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 7 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.