Year/Quarter: 20254
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Independent Study
Individual library or field study project selected in consultation with a faculty adviser.
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Independent Study
Individual library or field study project selected in consultation with a faculty adviser.
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Public Health Practice
Students integrate and apply knowledge of health determinants and public health systems, analytic skills, and evidence-based approaches to real world public health problem solving. Helps develop system thinking skills and an understanding of the interrelationships between public health infrastructure, generation and evaluation of public health evidence, public health policy, leadership, management, communication and community engagement.…
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Implementing Public Health Interventions
Students learn about the role of theory, evidence, community engagement, and ethics in health promotion intervention design, implementation, and evaluation. Focuses on identifying population needs, assets and capacities to inform intervention design; implementation of interventions and intervention strategies across the socio-ecological framework; and monitoring intervention implementation and evaluating intervention outcomes. Prerequisite: PHI 511; PHI 512;…
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Informatics in Healthcare Management
Medical informatics concerns the representation, organization, and manipulation of biomedical information and knowledge. Exposes students to a high-level understanding of informatics and its healthcare applications. Discussion of successes and failures in implementing information technology focuses on gaining leadership and management knowledge that embraces informatics.
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Health Economics
Uses economic concepts and tools to examine range of issues pertaining to healthcare, delivery of healthcare services. Includes demand analysis, production of health services, expenditure growth, markets for hospital and physician services, externalities. Emphasis on using economics to examine issues and solve problems. Prior economics courses not required.
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Strategic Management of Healthcare Organizations
Management of goals, strategy, and structure in healthcare organizations. Design of external relationships and internal structures., strategy-formulation, decision-making, and change. Integration of professional, social, and organizational values. Theory, student and practitioner experience, and case studies used to enhance repertoire of management approaches and skills. Prerequisite: HSERV 511 and HSMGMT 560 or equivalent.
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Quality Process Management
Provides a thorough understanding of the main concepts of operations management with a focus on total quality management techniques, along with key integrative frameworks that provide the foundation for successful applications of these approaches, as applied to healthcare organizations.
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Quantitative Methods
Concentrates on fundamental concepts of statistics and their application to healthcare management. Approaches statistics from two different perspectives that benefit leaders in healthcare: that of biostatistics and evidence based medicine, and that of management statistics for process improvement.
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Capital Planning
Emphasizes preparing clinical executives for managerial and leadership in healthcare organizations. Key concepts include capital cycle, creditworthiness, financial planning, cost of capital, capital structure, and capital allocation.