Health Systems Planning and Strategic Management

Catalog description

Pre -requisites: ADSS 8011. This course is targeted to doctoral students. The course comprehensively examines health systems planning, strategic planning and management related to health care organizations at the global, regional, national and local service levels. The course conten t builds upon the fundamental models and methods of planning and management, with special attention paid to the problems and challenges specific to the health care industry from a systemic and strategic analysis standpoint. Emphasis is given to strategic thinking and analysis, environmental analysis, strategy formulation analysis and evaluation of alternatives and strategic choice. In- depth emphasis is also given to scenario construction and planning models and to strategy identification, evaluation and selection as applied to public health and private sector issues. Planning models and principles will be applied to public health and private sector issues.