Health Policy, Economics, & Finance (NAP 804)
Term: 2024-2025 Acad Year Spring
Description
This course provides students with an overview of the US health care policy, including analysis of the political, institutional, cultural, and economic environments in which policy is formed. It also addresses how policy is created and focuses on select current issues in health policy. Students will be prepared to discuss the complexities of health policy development and implementation, historical evolution, and themes in the U.S. healthcare system. Emphasis will be placed on health care costs and financing, public health, health care quality, and Medicare and long-term care. Global, national, state, and local systems of financing health care will be compared.
Pre-requisites: None. Co-requisites: None.