Health Politics and Policy

Catalog description

Pre-requisites: SALP 6006. This course is designed to introduce students to health care policy and its impact on the organization, financing and delivery of health services. The students will examine the role of major actors and institutions, including government, providers, consume rs and insurers, as well as professional societies, in shaping and influencing health policy. Topics are presented from the perspective of the health care environment of Puerto Rico and the united states employing a comparative approach. The policy decision process at different levels will be discussed using political, social and economic frameworks. Through interactive lectures, documentaries and group discussions, students learn specific policy issues that are currently being debated and are of major relevance in the health care environment.