US Healthcare Delivery Systems

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This course provides an overview of the nature, organization, and function of the continuum of health services in the United States. Emphasis is placed on the business of health care, the history of its development and the roles of various business entities and healthcare professionals in the delivery of care to the patient. Topics include cost, access, and quality of health care services; governmental influence on health care delivery, private industry role in health care, services for the medically indigent and elderly, types of health insurance, managed care, highly integrated health care systems, and population health management.