Health Policy

Catalog description

This course focuses on the integration of evidence into policy making andpolicy analysis in public and private sectors including and not limited to health care delivery settings and all levels of government. It includes an overview of the policy process using the US as the foundation, while addressing global implications of health policies for patients and populations. It spans U.S. health care reform efforts from the mid-1960s to today. Health policies will be discussed from the diverse perspectives of economics, politics, bioethics, social justice, and equity. Opportunities and challenges for nurses and other policy stakeholders, both individually and collectively, to use evidence in health policy will be emphasized. This course is required for DNP students at NYU Meyers. Other Meyers students and doctoral students in other master’s or doctoral programs may enroll with permission of one of the instructors.