- Healthcare System Dynamics US

Catalog description

The course introduces students to the historical development, structure, operation, as well as the current and future directions of the major components of the American health care delivery system. It examines the ways in which health care services are organized and delivered, the influences that impact health care public policy decisions, factors that determine the allocation of health care resources and the establishment of priorities, and the relationship of health care costs to measurable benefits. Issues concerning health insurance, health care facilities, various health care services, and medical products will be analyzed to help students become wise health care consumers.