Objective:
The course objective is to provide students with an overview of the health care system; its organization and the various components that play a role in the assessment for, development of and implementation of health policy.
Learning Outcomes:
- Analyze health policy, and the variants, determinants and analysis of health policy as it relates to the health care system
- Contrast the differences between individual health and community health; outlining gap and overlap areas, while distinguishing the uses of health policies in both sectors
- Compare the various 'stakeholders' in health policy development and implementation; and evaluate the roles they play
- Identify and evaluate health policies that impact individuals and communities on local, state, national and international levels
- Understand the US health system, its organization and financing, and the different sectors within the system that make up the whole; and apply this information to the development of health policy
- Comprehend the general development, implementation and use of 'policies' in society
- And interpret and summarize the role of research, analysis, and peer review in the development of solid, impact oriented health policies
General Course Topics:
- An introduction to health and public policy
- Overview of the U.S. health care system
- Organization of health services and systems
- Health care financing
- Health service providers, care and delivery
- Public health and U.S. health care
- U.S. health services and policy
- Determinants in health policy
- Health policy development, implementation and impact
- Understanding health policy analysis
- Analyzing health programs and systems
- Health policy research