Graduate Course Directory and Schedules

This course addresses issues and questions regarding values and ethics in health, with particular attention to public health practice and health policy and management. It provides students with opportunities to consider issues in health and social services that challenge values and pose ethical issues, and assists students in addressing these issues in the context of both personal and organizational values and beliefs. Specific course content includes, but is not limited to, ethical issues such as reproductive issues, emerging diseases, product liability, pharmaceutical controls, advertising, occupational and environmental issues, and research dilemmas.

Prerequisite

Completion of at least 30 credits of the graduate program

Slash Listed Courses

Doctoral students register for the HSMP 673 section.

This course enables students to deepen their understanding of local, regional, national and international health policies and policy issues with specific reference to the underlying dynamics of the policy process. Understanding the process and nature of policy choices will be emphasized – who, what, how and why of explicit and implicit decisions and choices that lead to the ultimate policy. Students will develop an understanding of how health policy can be successfully developed and sustainably implemented.

Prerequisite

HSMP 571 – Health Policy

Slash Listed Courses

Doctoral students register in the HSMP 675 section.

Introduction to concepts of population health as they relate to policy and practice. In addition to exploring various meanings of the term “population health”, the course considers three primary drivers of population health: long-term demographic trends (e.g., population aging, immigration, fertility); social and economic policies (including health policy); and characteristics of the healthcare system. Special emphasis is placed on translating knowledge into effective policies and practice to address population health.

Slash Listed Courses

Doctoral students register for the HSMP 681 section.

Health policy has a fundamental transactional nature. Economics provides a broad theoretical framework that seeks to assess and understand transactional relationships. Thus, economics has particular value as a means to diagnose the transactional problems that underpin health system dynamics and provide frameworks for proposed solutions. This course applies economic theory to assess problems in health systems and propose solutions, as well as critique existing policy and develop sound policy alternatives.

Prerequisite

Successful completion of HSMP 586 – Introduction to Health Economics, with an earned “B-” minimum passing grade

Slash Listed Courses

Doctoral students register for HSMP 683.

Students are introduced to the practice of implementation science as a strategic means to improve implementation efforts and as a foundation for designing research to further that end. Common implementation science frameworks, models and strategies are introduced and assessed for their implications for action or measurement at the policy, system, organization and community level. This course is an elective for the Health Management and Policy (HMP) program.

Slash Listed Courses

Also offered for doctoral-level credit as HSMP 685 and may only be taken once for credit.

Provides an introduction to traditional methods of designing and conducting health services research. It is intended that at the completion of the course students will understand multiple approaches to health services research, be able to be both participants in and consumers of the research process, and will be competent in conducting critical appraisals of the health services literature and in writing research proposals.

Prerequisite

BSTA 525 – Intro to Biostatistics

Slash Listed Courses

Doctoral students register in the HSMP 689 section.