Course Aim
- Compare sectors in the health care system and their inter-relationships.
- Identify key policy issues in contemporary health systems.
- Compare and contrast cost, quality, and access issues across health care sectors.
- Apply concepts and measures for evaluating the performance of health systems.
- Analyze strategies for health system improvement through public policy, select a policy to improve the health system, and advocate for its adoption to a health care decision maker
- Apply classical economic theory to the health care marketplace.
- Determine sources and uses of payment for health care services and their impact on quality, cost, and access
Course Description:
This course is designed to introduce participants from multiple disciplines to the fundamental characteristics of health care systems; the organization, financing, and delivery of services in the Global health care system; the role of prevention and other non-medical factors in population health outcomes; key management and policy issues in contemporary health systems; and the process of public policy development and its impact on the prospects for health system improvement.
Course Content:
- Overview and Analysis of Health Systems
- A Systems Perspective on Health Care Reform
- Health Care System in Global Perspective
- Development and Structure of the Global Health Care System
- Analyzing Policy Options for Health System Improvement
- Organization and Delivery of Care
- Workforce
- Primary Care
- Hospitals
- Sectors of the Health Care System
- Pharmaceuticals: Health Care and Business
- Long Term Care
- Mental Health Care
- Integrative Medicine
- Safety Net Services
- System Challenges
- Disparities in Health Care Access and Outcomes
- Health Care Quality and Efficiency
- Economic Analysis and Health Care Costs
- Public Policy and Health Systems Development
- o Private Health Insurance
- Health Care Reform
- Public Health Insurance and the Uninsured
- Implementing Health Care Reform: New Payment Systems and Population Management
- Policy Making Process
- Case Study of Federal Health Policy: Mental Health Parity
