Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: THE SHAPING OF HEALTH POLICY

Department: Social Sciences Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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. Course is part of the course work required for the M.S. in Bioscience Research and Health Policy housed in the School of Natural Science. Cross-list: POST 430.