Health Care Delivery Systems

Catalog description

This course includes identification and analyses of health care delivery systems in the United States. Topics include the various factors that influence health care delivery systems and their structures. Health care systems and influences will include hospital, multi-hospital systems, health care manpower, financing health services, private health insurance and employee benefits, managed care, and the regulation and monitoring of health care systems. The politics of health care and the national health care policy will also be included in this course. Classroom Hours - Laboratory and/or Studio Hours – Course Credits: 3-0-3