Health Services Administration: Program and Policy Evaluation

3 credits · Graduate School

This course addresses the economic and statistical evaluation of changes in the health care delivery system, either through programs specifically implemented to achieve such changes or through changes in health care delivery/financing policies. The primary designs--before/after, concurrent/retrospective control, interrupted time-series--and their strengths and limitations. The course includes didactic lectures and small group critical reading/presentation of current program/policy evaluations published in leading medical and economics journals. [3]