Health Care Delivery Systems

Catalog description

This course is an overview of the political, economic, social, and epidemiological characteristics of health and medical care. The forms of health services financing, organization, and delivery systems in the United States and other industrialized nations, processes of health and disease in individuals, families and communities, and the moral and ethical issues facing health-care decision makers. The course will address how economic and policy issues influence the delivery of quality care and paying for health care, particular attention will be paid attention to accessibility, Medicaid, Medicare, self-pay, and different types of insurance. Inequities in the delivery of services based on race, economic status, gender, disability, and religious affiliation constitute a major concern for the course.