Course Catalog - 2011-2012

     

POST 430 - THE SHAPING OF HEALTH POLICY

Long Title: THE SHAPING OF HEALTH POLICY
Department: Policy Studies
Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Study of how health-care policy decisions are made and implemented, using an interdisciplinary approach involving government, law, ethics, economics, and history. Includes case discussions of major policy problems by faculty experts in these disciplines and guest speakers who are leading national figures in the shaping of public policy.