Health, Politics & Policy

3 units

Health, Politics, and Policy: This course focuses on how public policies are actually made in the United States, and, in particular, health policies. The course is designed to introduce students to the literature, concepts, theories, and politics of the policy process and methods for analyzing this process. The emphasis in the readings will be on different concepts for studying the policy process and analyses. This course will focus on concepts related to policy processes including policymaking and politics.