HCM 460Health Policy & Management

This capstone course integrates the academic disciplines related to healthcare for use in planning, implementing, and evaluating programs and services. This course will examine the three cornerstones of healthcare policy: access, cost, and quality and their interrelations. The student will examine significant health policy and management issues. The policy decision-making process is explored and methods and approaches for the study of policy issues are considered. It also focuses on the evaluation of health care outcomes and the effectiveness and efficiency of contemporary health services. Students analyze cases dealing with administrative, management and policy issues in health. Prerequidstes: HCM 101, 240, 300 and 410.