Health Care Policy, Politics, and Process

Graduate / Professional

This course provides an overview of past and current health policy and provides the student with the opportunity to critically analyze basic concepts, principles and consequences of policy options for achieving selected health services goals across the spectrum of healthcare. It is built upon the understanding that health care delivery is the transformation of health science into health service. Policy, politics, and processes occur at the national, state, and local levels. Because the course has a primary focus on national healthcare policy, students increase their aptitude in policy, politics, and process to shape improvements. The class tracks and analyzes contemporary legislative and regulatory proposals, processes, and relevant materials to inform discussion. Required for all post-master’s D.N.P. students in their second year. Forty-five hours. Prerequisite: all first-year courses. 3 Course cr HTBA