Health Care Management

This course will focus on the use of analytics to develop key performance indicators that integrate and evaluate clinical, administrative, and financial performance. Key concepts in this course will include information management, performance metrics, data visualization, and communication of results across the healthcare ecosystem. Specific topics will include health outcomes analysis, financial performance, developing an analytics strategy, data quality and governance, and the four stages of actionable intelligence.

The Health Administration Law course is designed to help establish a foundation of health system law that can guide and shape future administrators' decision making. The health administration perspective of law and health care law surrounding the delivery of healthcare within organizations and systems are the foundation of the course. Additionally, legal concepts, laws, legal issues, proceedings, regulatory actions, and judicial processes within the context of health administration will be examined.

This course covers topics related to environmental economics and policy, with an emphasis on comparative policy analysis and business strategies toward the environment.

This course is designed to help students understand how the theories and models of economics can be applied to the study of health and health care. The examination of the markets (demand and supply) for health, health care and health insurance is stressed. In addition, the economic analytic tools such as microeconomic theories and economic evaluation methods also will be reviewed and introduced. The objective of this course is to equip students with the knowledge tools to examine and analyze the problems issues of health care from the perspective of economics.

Prereq: ECON 2200 or equivalent.

An investigation of the broad range of policy issues, theoretical concerns and practical management strategies influencing the design, organization and delivery of long-term care services.

Prereq: None

This course is designed to help prepare students for administrative roles in health services organizations and public health. The course examines health administration concepts and broadens student knowledge of administrative and operational aspects of health services organizations, systems and public health, within the U.S. Healthcare system. Administrative concepts and contexts, health system operational aspects, and health delivery issues will be addressed throughout the course to help build the skills needed to be an effective administrator in a health organization or in public health.

The course will cover the development and need for information security policies, issues regarding privacy, and the application of computer ethics. (Cross-listed with IASC 8570)

Prereq: BSAD 8030, or permission of instructor.

Health care finance represents an analysis of health care concepts, issues and trends from a health care and an organizational perspective. Application of specific principles, concepts, and techniques of financial management to health care systems will be addressed. Examination of the role and responsibilities of health care administrators in relation to financial management will also be explored.

Prereq: PA 8120 OR PSM 806 OR PSM 820

Alternative: HSRA 872 (UNMC)

This course helps students understand major health care policy making and related issues. It focuses on the history/background; physical, social, and economic environment; policy process; and political marketplace of contemporary U.S. health care policies. Topics include health care reform, cost containment, indigent health care and urban vs. rural health care. A health care background is helpful, but not required.

Prereq: None

Alternative: HSRA 874 (UNMC)

Overview of the U.S. health and medical care delivery system. Topics are covered from a historical, economic, sociological, and policy perspective and include the following: social values in health care; need, use, and demand for services; providers of health systems; public and private payment systems; alternative delivery systems; and models from other countries.

Prereq: None

Alternative: HSRA 810 (UNMC)

The purpose of this course is to study the theoretical foundations of health behavior. Candidates will develop an understanding of the determinants of health behavior, the models and theories that provide a framework for predicting health behavior, and the strategies employed to bring about behavioral changes for health and disease prevention in individuals and groups.

Prereq: None

Public Health Leadership &
Advocacy

This course incorporates public health leadership theory and practices that are grounded in biomedical and social science and sanctioned by public law. Also included is the politics of communities and organizations. Advocacy is emphasized as a key tool to secure funding and to help assure that local, state, and federal policymakers will adopt, implement, and maintain important public health regulations, policies and programs.

Prereq: Fifteen (15) health education graduate credits.