Health
How can we improve healthcare access and quality—while lowering costs? What are the links between a community's state of health and its housing, transportation, and education? Our health policy and management focus area provides knowledge and skills for public service professionals to make an impact in health. This focus area aims to develop students’ knowledge and skills for careers as managers and policy analysts in the field of healthcare services. The foundational courses provide a base that prepares students for more specialized, elective courses in either healthcare management or policy.
Foundational Courses
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HPAM-GP 1830 - Introduction to Health Policy and Management
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HPAM-GP 1833 - Health Services Management
Healthcare Management electives
Healthcare Policy electives
Preventing Costly Re-hospitalizations
Professor John Billings researches the issues facing the healthcare delivery system. His successful project for the National Health Service (NHS) in England set up programs to prevent expensive re-hospitalizations.
Why Your Broken Rib Costs You an Arm and a Leg
Why is healthcare in the US so expensive compared to care provided in other countries with similar or better outcomes? Dean Sherry Glied's talk examines the evidence on this paradox and describes the implications of these findings for health policy.
Why Your Broken Rib Costs You an Arm and a Leg
Why is healthcare in the US so expensive compared to care provided in other countries with similar or better outcomes? Dean Sherry Glied's talk examines the evidence on this paradox and describes the implications of these findings for health policy.
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