This course focuses on the major dimensions of health policy, analyzing key contemporary issues in healthcare policy with their legal and economic impacts. The theoretical frameworks of policy formulation, implementation, and evaluation are discussed along with the roles of different branches and levels of government in healthcare. Analysis of selected legal principles and their application to health field are included. Health Policy framework is utilized in this course to bridge the government and market forces in a continuum to explain the legal and economic implications of our decisions in determining health policies in the United States.
Junior Standing