| source Yale (X) |
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department Health Policy Administration (X) |
HPA 510 01 (14031) MW 10.30-11.50 LEPH WINSL Fall 2009 This course provides an introduction to the making and understanding of health policy. The various goals of policy making and the alternative means of achieving those goals are examined. Health issues are placed in the context of broader social goals and values. The current performance of the health care system is assessed, with particular emphasis on shifting needs, rising costs, and changing institutional arrangements. The course provides an overview of the important actors in the health care and political systems and introduces students to methods for understanding their behavior. Students apply these methods to a set of concrete policy issues.
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HPA 529 01 (14033) Th 3.00-4.50 LEPH 102 Fall 2009 This course provides students with policy analysis skills and teaches students to think critically and write succinctly about health care policy. The course integrates the study of policy analysis and the world of health politics as analysts must do in real life. The course begins broadly by thinking first about the nature of public policy and the theories of policy analysis and policy decision making. Next, eight key components of the policy analysis process are considered, and the impact of major political organizations and institutions on the process of analyzing and selecting public health care policy is jointly examined. Prerequisite: HPA 510a.
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HPA 545 01 (14034) W 10.00-11.50 LEPH 102 Fall 2009
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HPA 546 01 (14035) M 1.00-2.50 LEPH 103 Fall 2009 Public health policy is always the product of controversy. Scientific considerations blend with political and ethical conflicts in public health; questions of autonomy, coercion, justice, and the common good are central. This seminar discusses these issues of ethics and political theory in reference to selected public health issues such as preventive medicine and behavior modification, smoking, control of infectious disease, and contraception and teen pregnancy.
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HPA 547 01 (14036) F 9.00-10.50 LEPH WINSL Fall 2009 This course is a survey of legal topics important to the management of health care organizations. It is designed to acquaint the future health care manager with the basic legal issues that daily affect the provision of health care services. The course examines the relationships among the parties involved in the delivery of health care; the law of business organizations, including that of corporations and partnerships; the legal constraints that affect health care organizations, including state and federal regulatory laws, labor relations, and antitrust doctrines; and doctrines particularly applicable to managed care organizations. The course also considers a variety of emerging legal issues in the health care field.
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HPA 555 01 (14037) HTBA Fall 2009 The Health Management Practicum is a project-based learning experience. Students work 8-10 hours per week for one or two terms. Designed to parallel the Doctor-Patient Encounter class offered to medical students in which students are paired with practicing physicians, the Health Management Practicum allows students to focus on current issues confronting a hospital department while working under the guidance of a departmental administrator. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
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HPA 580 01 (14047) T 3.00-4.50 LEPH 102 Fall 2009
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HPA 617 01 (14038) M 12.00-1.30 LEPH 102 Fall 2009 This seminar focuses on the analysis of current issues in health policy and on state-of-the-art methodological issues in health services research. The format includes guest speakers and presentations by EPH as well as other faculty and graduate students of ongoing research projects. Students participate in critical discussions of the issues that arise in both types of sessions. Prerequisite: Ph.D. student status or permission of the instructors.
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