Health Systems Organization and Financing

4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

Lecture, four hours. Limited to Master of Public Health students. Introduction to health policy and management focusing on basic concepts underlying health-care organization, finance, and policy with a focus on health systems. Topics include development of U.S. health-care system, comparisons to international health-care systems, trends in health-care spending, role of public and private insurance, care delivery, health equity, health policy processes, role of federal, state and local government in health policy and regulation, and current landscape of health-policy reform. Letter grading.