Health Policy

Catalog description

Pre-requisites: ADSS 8005. This course is designed to provide students with the competencies to understand health policy in the health sector. The course provides a dual approach to understanding the role of government leadership in formulating and implementing public health policy and the participation of relevant community, institutional and professional actors in shaping the direction and implementation of policy, through the design, financing, and delivery of health services. Through lectures, group discussions and real -life case discussions, students will examine and discuss relevant literature in the health policy field, specifically, and health services and public health fields, in general. The course provides an applied approach to the examination of policy options through a p olicy memo, emphasizing policy decision making under time constraints; and a policy paper designed to compare major health system reform initiatives. It emphasizes the consumption of the results of applied research to enable evidence-based policy decisions.