26:834:581Introduction to Health Care Systems (3) Provides an overview of the health care system in the United States, including a survey of health care uses, providers, financing, and quality-of-care issues. |
26:834:582Health Care Management (3) Focus on major social and political issues involved in the organization, delivery, and management of health care systems. |
26:834:584Health Care Finance (3) Processes and methods of financial management in the health care industry. Patterns of health care expenditures, methods of financing health care, financial planning and development, third-party reimbursement, and controls in health institutions management. |
26:834:585Health Care Policy (3) Analysis, development, implementation, and evaluation of policies and programs affecting health. Focuses on health care institutions, with some attention to managing health problems with nonmedical interventions at the community level. Uses the case method applied to realistic situations in which specific decisions must be made by health managers or officials. |
26:834:586Violence in the United States (3) Life-cycle approach to violence, including violence against children; juvenile, domestic, male-male, and cultural violence. With each type of violence, examination of historical and empirical dimensions of the problem; current theories about dynamics and causality, and the likely efficacy of current and proposed interventions. Emphasis placed on class, racial, and gender inequalities. |
