| Public Health | Department | Health Sciences | College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| HCM550 | Course Code: | Healthcare Policy Analysis and Development | Course Name | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3 hours | Contact Hours | 3 credit Hours | Credit Hours | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| English | Arabic | Teaching Language | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| HCM 500
| Prerequisite | Level 3 | Course Level | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course Description: This course introduces and examines methods for assuring quality in policy, process, and outcome management, as well as the significance and statistical application of measuring outcomes. The healthcare policies and changing trends are identified and analyzed. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course learning outcomes: 1. Define the important concepts, theories, laws, literature that impact public opinion and policy within the healthcare environment. 2. Outline the health policy process at both the state and national levels in areas associated with research, funding, and delivery. 3. Analyze the healthcare policy and politics in the United States, Canada, and the European Union. 4. Evaluate the political dimensions of an area of national healthcare policy and project its impact over the next five years. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Assignments | Quizzes | Mid-Term Exams | Grading: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lab Work | Project | Final Exam | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Blank, R., Burau, V., & Kuhlmann, E. (Eds.). (2017). Comparative health policy (5th ed.). Palgrave. ISBN: 9781137544957 | Text Book: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rochefort, D. A. (2014). The rhetoric of “crisis” and implementing the Affordable Care Act. Harvard Health Policy Review, 16(1), 5-10. Thieme Sanford, S. (2014). Mind the gap: Basic health along the ACA’s coverage continuum. Journal of Health Care Law & Policy, 17(1), 101-127. | Reference Book (s): | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
