Healthcare Systems

Catalog description

This course explores the healthcare structure, resources and delivery systems in the United States and other countries around the world. Contemporary issues affecting healthcare delivery systems; and service provision, physician reimbursement, hospitals, pharmaceuticals, adoption of new technologies and expenditures in public or private sectors will be discussed. The role of prevention in population health outcomes key management and policy issues in contemporary health systems, the process of policy development and its impact on the prospect of health systems will be examined.