Summer Session for Public Health Studies
Health Policy and Management
Students will learn
how to analyze current health policy issues through the application of basic
economic principles. No previous
economics training is required. The
course will begi...
This course is designed for practicing physicians and those with an interest in health care management. It will explore both the theory and practical methods being employed to make improvement in hea...
This course introduces students to health services research. The course includes sessions on both methodologic techniques and applications. Individual sessions will be devoted to research design, an...
This course introduces students to the major health policy issues facing the United States today. The course focuses on the roles of hospitals, doctors, private and government insurance, and differen...
This course will address potential applications of existing large databases to study important questions regarding clinical risk factors, treatment, outcomes, and health policy. Strengths and l...
This course provides an introduction to two of the major tasks confronting managers of health care organizations. Building on an introduction to organizational theory, the course focuses on the main ...
This course will address the use of data from clinical information systems in performing clinical effectiveness research, including the strengths and limitations of these data. Major topics will incl...
This course emphasizes introductory concepts, methods, and practical procedures for developing instruments for assessing patients' health status, quality of life, satisfaction and cost-effectivene...
Introduces the following topics: decision analysis methods relevant to clinical decision making and clinical research; the use of probability to express uncertainty; Bayes theorem and evaluation of d...
This course deals with intermediate-level topics in the field of medical decision making. Topics that will be addressed include modeling issues, evaluation of diagnostic tests, ROC and summary ROC ana...