Courses Description

HPSM 6248 Organizational Behavior
[3 Credits] This course examines behaviors at the individual, group/team, and systems level within the environmental context of an organization. Behavioral science, organizational, leadership, and management theories will be utilized to examine the complex dynamic behaviors existing in an organization.

HPSM 6268  Managing Health Services Organizations
[3 Credits]  This course is designed to provide Public Health and Health Professional students with an introduction to the skills needed to manage and lead health care and public health programs, organizations and systems with an emphasis on planning and execution.

HPSM 6269 Healthcare Economics and Economic Evaluation of Healthcare Services
[3 Credits] The purpose of this course is to give students an overview of the major economic considerations in the health care industry and to demonstrate how economic ideas are crucial to an understanding of the functioning of the health care system from both policy (external) and health care management (internal) points of view. There will be a strong emphasis both on economic theory and on empirical studies of the various topics and on economic evaluation of health care programs including cost effectiveness, benefit and utility analysis. Prerequisite: HPSM 6268.

HPSM 6270 Financial Management and Accounting in Healthcare Organizations
[3 Credits] This course introduces the most-used tools and techniques of health care financial management, including health care accounting and financial statements; managing cash, billings and collections; making major capital investments; determining cost and using cost information in decision-making; budgeting and performance measurement; and pricing.

HPSM 6271 Introduction to Healthcare Quality
[3 Credits] This course examines major concepts of quality healthcare and basic techniques used in planning, controlling, and improving quality. The course will begin by exploring the concept of quality as it applies to healthcare processes, systems and outcomes. The relationship of quality and cost will be then discussed.

HPSM 6272 Methods in Healthcare Quality
[3 Credits] This course is an in-depth presentation of methods and techniques for evaluating, monitoring, and improving the quality of healthcare. Statistical process control will be discussed in detail. Specific issues in healthcare measurement will then follow. A session will be devoted to patient satisfaction surveys. Additional sessions will concentrate on functional status measurement. Prerequisite: BIOS 6221.

HPSM 6273 Information Systems in Healthcare
[3 Credits] This course examines the rapidly evolving discipline of health informatics in the complex and diverse world of healthcare. The course will review the history, current applications, and the potential future of information, information management and information technology, including data acquisition, storage and processing; information systems (clinical and administrative); standards; security; decision support; and an understanding of medical/health informatics methods and principles.

HPSM 6274 Marketing in Healthcare
[3 Credits] This course provides an introduction to nature of healthcare markets, healthcare consumers and consumer behavior, marketing strategies and techniques, market research, sources of market data and the future of healthcare marketing.

HPSM 6275 Human Resources Management in Healthcare
[2 Credits] This course is designed to provide students with a basic understanding of human resources management in a wide array of health care organizations at the corporate, departmental, team and individual level and to gain an appreciation for the distinct roles that managers and human resource professionals play in resolving conflicts and dealing with other human resources issues.

HPSM 6276 Organizational Leadership
[2 Credits] This course examines historical, traditional, and contemporary models of leadership in public health practice. Students will analyze social, cognitive, psychological and affective dynamics of organizational leadership.

HPSM 6277 Health Advocacy and Community Based Activism
[2 Credits] The purpose of this course is to consider public health issues that have social, political, and economic determinants and to examine how health professionals can promote change through advocacy and activism. The course consists of 3 parts, which are intertwined. The first part covers social epidemiology, a history of the U.S. health system and the role of government in health care, and the principles of organizing for social change. The second part builds on this foundation taking up the most important issues of the day. Perspectives are provided by visiting faculty who have played leadership roles in solving problems on the front lines. The third part is like the second but is based on readings with discussions led by students.

HPSM 6279 Special Topics in Healthcare Quality
[3 Credits] The purpose of this course is to enable students to apply what they have learned in the introductory and methods courses in healthcare quality and patient safety and to gain proficiency in areas of current interest. Prerequisites: HPSM 6271, 6272.

HPSM 6280 Capstone in Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety
[3 Credits] The purpose of this course is to enable students to gain mastery in the principles and practice of healthcare quality. It builds on what they have learned and provides students the opportunity to demonstrate what they have learned.

HPSM 6288 Health Care Policy
[3 Credits] This course explores the formation, implementation, and evaluation of health policy, and the impact of the political process on the delivery of health services and provides a foundation for a more detailed analysis of health policy in the United States.

HPSM 6289 The Role of Government in Health and Health Care
[3 Credits] This course examines the role of government in improving access to healthcare, controlling the costs, and improving the quality and safety of healthcare. The impact of recent developments in the private and public sectors including changes in the provider and payer systems and the experience of other countries with different systems for organizing and financing will be examined. Special topics will include prescription drugs, mental health services, long-term care and HIV.

HPSM 6290 Public Health Law, Ethics, and Human Rights
[2 Credits] This course examines the legal powers and duties of the state that exist to assure the conditions for people to be healthy and the limits on that power to constrain the autonomy, privacy, liberty, proprietary, or other legally protected interests of individuals for protection or promotion of community health. Consideration is given to the role of the state from legal and ethical perspectives, to the application of ethical principles to populations as well as individuals and to the inherent rights that exist for all humans to a healthy life.

HPSM 6291 Capstone in Health Policy
[3 Credits] The purpose of the Capstone course in Health Policy is to enable students to gain proficiency in the application of their knowledge and analytic skills in the development of data driven/ evidence based health policy and in advocacy for its adoption with a special focus on improving access to health care for underserved people. Prerequisites: HPSM 6288, 6289, 6258, 6277, 6290.