High Value Health Care Reform

3 credits · School of Public Policy

Course will focus on recent and proposed reforms in health care practices and policies to improve the value of health care; namely, achieving significantly higher quality of care with better outcomes and lower costs. Emphasis on public and private approaches to reforming and transforming care in the US health care system; will also draw on global experiences with health care reform. Students will learn how to critically assess approaches to improving health care and lowering its costs; understand and bring together different stakeholder perspectives on reform; and, identify and implement practical strategies to improve health care systems.