Required:

HMP 401, US Health Care Systems

HMP 501, Epidemiology and Community Medicine

HMP 721, Managing Health Care Organizations

HMP 711, Health Systems Research I

HMP 712, Health Systems Research II

Course Descriptions:

HMP 401 - United States Health Care Systems                  [Gen Ed 7;  Discovery SS]
Credits: 4.00
Nature and functions of health care services and health professionals; impact of social, political, economic, ethical, professional, legal, and technological forces on health care systems. Current health policy issues.

HMP 501 - Epidemiology and Community Medicine
Credits: 4.00
The distribution and determinants of disease, illness, and health in the community. Community health and illness measures, health status, and source of data. Development of hypotheses and study designs to reduce community health problems using epidemiological reasoning, methods, and analyses. Lab.

HMP 721 - Managing Health Care Organizations
Credits: 4.00
Organizational characteristics of ambulatory, acute, and long-term care facilities. Management issues and strategies involving governance, clinical services, human and fiscal resources, and community-based services. Prereq: major or permission.

HMP 711 - Health Systems Research I
Credits: 4.00
This course introduces students to intermediate techniques for data manipulation and analysis for the health care field. The course also introduces methods for survey research and large data set manipulation and analysis. There will be a lab section utilizing a statistical software package where students will perform tasks from a large national data set. Prereq: introduction to statistics.

HMP 712 - Health Systems Research II
Credits: 4.00
This course introduces students to decision science and applies decision making to health systems. It teaches the techniques of health care management, epidemiological analysis, and policy analysis as they relate to the decision making process. There will be a lab section with applied exercises. Prereq: HMP 711. Lab.