Management, Leadership, Assurance and Health Services (4 credits)
PBHL 600
Explores critical elements of the assurance from the premise that effectiveness of program delivery and the assurance role itself requires understanding of organizations, leadership and change, in economic, strategic, and systemic context. Applies management concepts and theories through an integrated model of the management process. Extends, applies, and integrates previously developed concepts and theories with those of strategy, planning, accounting, financial management, and information systems.
Policy and Advocacy (4 credits)
PBHL 650
Introduces the fundamentals of public-health law and the concepts and theories of health-policy development, adoption, and evaluation. Introduces the advocacy process and its importance to development of sound public health policy. Emphasizes systemic integration and the integration of the assessment, assurance, and policy development roles of public health.
The Business of Healthcare: Advanced Healthcare Financial Management (3 credits)
PBHL 603
The Business of Healthcare: Advance Healthcare Financial Management is a course designed for non-financial health care managers. Using the case study approach, it will offer an introduction to the most-used tools and techniques of health care financial management. There will be a particular focus on fundamentals.
Strategy, Innovation and Change Management (3 credits)
PBHL 605
Strategy, Innovation and Change Management is a required course for the Master of Public Health (MPH) program of study, Concentration in Health Management and Policy. This course prepares students for management responsibilities in delivering new health services. The course focuses on developing strategies to adopt innovative services and management techniques.
Emerging Issues in US Health Policy (3 credits)
PBHL 609
This course introduces students to the major health policy issues facing the United States today, and that will challenge the nation in the foreseeable future. It will explore how gaps in financing and service delivery pose major barriers to improving health, reducing disparities, achieving universal insurance coverage, enhancing quality, controlling costs, and meeting the needs of patients and families. Students will gain an awareness of the complexities of emerging health policy issues, the historical evolution of issues and themes, how different interests and actors interact, the influence of special interests, why we face the challenges that we do, and why reform is so difficult to achieve.
Race, Ethnicity and Health (3 credits)
PBHL 611
This course explores racial and ethnic disparities in health status and access to health care and examines intervention approaches to eliminate them. Course themes include: genetic and social constructions of race and ethnicity; measuring race and ethnicity; differences in prevalence and patterns of disease across groups; the role of economic, social and individual factors; cultural and structural factors that affect health care delivery; discrimination; racism, health status and health care delivery; and public health approaches to prevention and improving health care delivery. Students will learn to define and describe racial and ethnic health disparities, discuss mechanisms underlying disparities, think critically about existing health research on health disparities, and develop proposals for reducing health disparities.
The Management of Healthcare Outcomes (3 credits)
PBHL 601
This course allows students to develop an appreciation of theory and the application of analysis of health outcomes through examination of such topics as quality of care, medical error, and evidence-based medicine, as well as gaining familiarity with data sets reporting on health services outcomes and tools for their analysis.
The Evolution of the U.S. Health System (3 credits)
PBHL 607
The Evolution of the US Health System is a required course for the Master of Public Health (MPH) program of study, Concentration in Health Management and Policy. This course will provide students with an understanding of the organizational and financial foundations of the US Health system.
Fundamentals of Disaster Management (3 credits)
PBHL 608
Fundamentals of Disaster Management will provide an understanding of the broad range of disaster management issues, and study strategies used to help a community plan for, manage, and recover from a natural or man-made disaster. Coursework will include case studies, small group planning, presentations by local experts, and individual research.