HADM 3303 - U.S. Health Care Systems

Description

Fundamental concerns such as cost, access, quality, financing, health workforce, and public health represent key topics. We will apply these topics or problems to real-life situations. The approach will be purposeful to allow the successful student to recognize how these topics interact with each other within the whole health care system.

Learning Objectives

• Develop a comprehensive understanding of "the big picture" of health care.
• Understand how to measure health status.
• Analyze the health status of the U.S. and the increase of chronic diseases.
• Understand the healthcare system as a whole.
• Analyze the impact of the reduced workforce and its impact on quality of care.
• Understand government based insurance plans vs. the private market.
• Analyze the cost of care, health insurance trends, and health care financing.
• Define managed care.
• Understand quality of care and health care regulations.
• Develop an understanding of the national health policy proposals.