HCM 651 - Health Industry Analysis

This course serves as an introduction to the analysis of health care delivery in the United States. The focus is on identifying and understanding factors that affect the health care industry as a whole and its component parts. Specifically, the course examines how trends in health technology, personnel, health status, disease and government affect health care. These and other factors affecting public health, hospitals, medicine, and long-term care are analyzed from a variety of perspectives with tools such as epidemiology and cross-national analysis.
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3 Credits