PUBHHMP 7610
Public Health Law
The course will focus on the use of legal tools to improve the public's health. The course will survey the legal framework in which the government may regulate for the public's health, addressing issues including the origins and scope of public health authority, constitutional limits on public health powers, emergency legal preparedness and public health tort litigation.
Prequisite(s): Cross listed in Law 8810.
PUBHHMP 7608
The Role of Science in Health Policy‐Making
This course will explore the role that science, including social science, plays in public health and health services policy‐making. It will consider the conditions under which scientific research findings do and do not influence policy‐making with reference to the nature of scientific inquiry and public policy, the intellectual, institutional and practical similarities and differences between them.
Prequisite(s): None.
PUBHHMP 7607
Financial Management of Public Health Programs
Principles of accounting and finance applied to the management of public health agencies and programs.
Prequisite(s): An introductory accounting course and enrollment in MPH Program or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 823.
PUBHHMP 7606
Applied Health Policy
Introduction to public policy concepts and processes as they apply to the organization, financing and delivery of health services.
Prequisite(s): 6609 or permission of instructor.
PUBHHMP 7605
Introduction to Health Policy
Introduction to public policy concepts and processes as they apply to the organization, financing and delivery of health services.
Prequisite(s): 6611 or permission of instructor.
PUBHHMP 7603
Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programs
Intended to give students an overview of the theory and applications of cost‐benefit analysis, cost‐effectiveness analysis, cost‐utility analysis and related forms of economic evaluation of interventions in the health care sector.
Prequisite(s): Grad standing or permission of instructor
PUBHHMP 7602
Health Insurance and Payment Policy
This course examines the health insurance mechanisms used to pay for health care in the United States, system origins, incentives and policy.
Prequisite(s): Graduate student standing in PUBHHMP or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 802.
PUBHHMP 7601
Economic Analysis of Health Services
This course will cover applications of microeconomic analysis to the health services industry with emphasis on the market structure and managerial decisions.
Prequisite(s): Prereq or concur 6611, or permission of instructor.
PUBHHMP 7194
Group Studies in Health Services Management and Policy
Group studies of special topics within health services management and policy.
Prequisite(s): None.
PUBHHMP 7193
Individual Studies in Health Services Management and Policy
Study of individually designed topics not otherwise available in the curriculum.
Prequisite(s): None.