Health Delivery Systems

Catalog description

This course discusses design and implementation of health care delivery systems and the pressure and stakeholders which impact those systems. H ADM 552 Health Delivery Systems (3) This course covers the design and implementation of health care delivery systems. Beginning with policy and environmental pressures, the course considers the interests of diverse stakeholders such as regulators, purchasers, providers and consumers. The content of the course is organized in four areas: (1) traditional delivery systems; (2) managed care concepts and practices; (3) healthy communities approaches; and (4) reform and futures issues.The objective of the course is to increase students' knowledge of the evolving health care delivery systems. This course functions as an elective course in the MHA program. It builds on core courses that have presented the basics of health systems. Students will be required to take a mid-term and final exam and write a term paper (grade 1/3 each). The course will be offered every third semester with an expected enrollment of 20 students.