Course
Descriptions
SET
ONE
The
Health
Services
System
I
First
part
of
a two-course
sequence
focusing
on
major
issues
in
the
organization
of
a health
services
system:
role
of
values;
assessment
of
health
status;
analysis
of
need,
access,
and
use
of
services;
current
supply
and
distribution
of
health
resources;
analysis
of
health
care
costs
and
expenditures.
Microeconomic
Theory
Concepts
and
methodology
of microeconomics
including
demand
and
supply;
underlying
concepts
of consumer
and
production
analysis;
decision
making
under
risk
and
uncertainty;
income
distribution;
market
imperfections
and
public
goods.
Strategies
and
Uses
of Epidemiology
Basic
epidemiology
for
the
public
health
professional,
with
review
of fundamental
principles
and
concepts,
and
application
to selected
examples
of chronic,
non-infectious
and
infectious
diseases.
Introduction
to Biostatistics
Fundamental
statistical
concepts
related
to the
practice
of public
health:
descriptive
statistics;
probability;
sampling;
statistical
distribution;
estimation;
hypotheses
testing;
chi-square
tests;
simple
and
multiple
linear
regression;
one-way
ANOVA.
Use
of computer
in statistical
analysis.
Introduction
to Public Health Policy
Nature of, and theoretical motivations for, public policy interventions in public health; influence of politics, bureaucracy, and social environment on policy decisions; effects of public health policies. Analysis of case studies of public health policy decisions.
Principles
of Health
Behavior
An
overview
of psychosocial
factors
related
to health
and
illness
behavior;
processes
of belief
and
behavior
change
in relation
to health,
including
strategies
for
change
at the
individual,
group,
and
community
level.
Discussion
of health
education
interventions
in an
array
of health
programs.
SET
TWO
Economics
of Health
Management
and
Policy
Uses
the
basic
framework
of economics
to analyze
the
behavior
of consumers,
insurers,
physicians,
and
hospitals.
The
tools
of economics
are
applied
to both
managerial
issues
such
as pricing
decisions
and
policy
issues
such
as the
medically
uninsured.
The
Health
Services
System
II
Second
part
of a
two-course
sequence
focusing
on major
issues
in the
organization
of the
health
services
system:
private
and
public
financing
of health
services;
quality
of care
assessment;
control
of
quality
and
costs
of care
through: market-oriented
strategies,
professional
self-regulation,
managerial
approaches,
third party payers, and
government
regulation;
and
system
reform.
Managerial
Accounting
for
Health
Care
Administrators
Concepts
and
techniques
of managerial
accounting
for
generalist
health
care
administrators.
Topics
covered
include
full
cost
measurement,
differential
cost
measurement
and
analysis,
sources
of revenue,
price
setting,
budgeting
and
control,
costs
and
decision-making
fund
accounting.
Operations
Research
and
Control
Systems
Provides
rational
framework
for
decision
making
for
both
operating
and
control
systems
in healthcare organizations.
Emphasizes
basic
modeling
techniques
and
examples
of actual
health
applications.
Covers
total
value
analysis,
objective
function
formation,
and
exception
reporting.
Students
become
familiar
with
inventory
modeling,
queuing,
computer
simulation,
PERT/CPM,
mathematical
programming,
and
quality
control.
Corporate
Finance
for
Health
Care
Administrators
Corporate
finance
theory
and
applications
to health
care
organizations.
Topics
include
the
capital
expenditure
decision,
the
capital
financing
decision,
financial
feasibility,
financial
planning,
cash
management,
and
financial
aspects
of prepayment
programs.
The
course
makes
extensive
use
of case
studies.
SET
THREE
Understanding
Organizations
Overview
of key
issues
confronting
modern
organizations,
with
an emphasis
on healthcare
organizations.
Course
aims
to provide
a working
understanding
of:
organizational
dynamics;
how
organizations
are
formed,
governed,
designed,
and
improved;
how
workers
and
organizations
relate
to each
other,
and
how
organizations
relate
to their
environment
and
other
organizations.
Politics
of Health
Policy
Role
of government
institutions
in health
policy
making,
including
Congress,
Presidency,
interest
groups,
bureaucracy,
the
budget
and
the
states.
Models
of the
policy-making
process.
Health
Law
Introduces
students
to the
legal
issues
in managing
a health
care
or public
health
organization.
Specific
topics
include:
liability;
health
care
institutions
as corporations;
the
nature
and
scope
of public
health
authority;
antitrust;
fraud
and
abuse;
privacy
and
confidentiality;
tax
implications;
regulatory
oversight;
legal
requirements
for
access
to health
care;
nondiscrimination;
conflicts
of interest;
and
constitutional
constraints
on public
health
initiatives.
Principles
of Environmental
Health
Sciences
Basic
knowledge
and
skills
required
to
assess
impact
of
environmental
health
contaminants.
Teaching
format
utilizes
representative
examples
of
environmental
health
problems.
Each
example
includes
assessment
of
environmental
interactions,
health
effects,
risk
assessment
and
control
measures.
Health Insurance and Payment Systems
Examines financing health care services through insurance, contracting and managed care. Explores the theories on which health care pricing, payment and reimbursement systems are based, the administrative and financial mechanisms through which they operate, and the impact of reimbursement methods on consumers, providers, payers and society.
Case
Studies
Capstone
Integrative
capstone
course.
Analysis
of cases
dealing
with
administrative
and
policy
issues
in the
health
field.
Designed
to develop
skill
in addressing
ill-defined,
multi-faceted
problems
taken
from
actual
situations.
