Health & Social Policy Descriptions

For catalog cycle Fall 2007 to Spring 2009

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HSP 650: Social Policy Analysis

Effective Aug 28, 2006 View History

Description:

Develops theoretical perspectives on social policy, social justice, and social change, and a framework for analyzing and developing social policies. Introduces students to a selection of social problems and the social programs and policies designed to address them, and provides students with an opportunity to explore a social policy area of their choosing. (Offered fall semester.)

Units

3 Units

Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:

None

HSP 651: Health Policy Analysis&Advocac

Effective Jan 22, 2007 View History

Description:

Explores the complexity of health policy analysis and advocacy in the context of rapidly changing roles and expectations for healthcare institutions and providers; the interface between public health and the private medical sector; and a comparative analysis of publicly and privately financed U.S. and non-U.S. healthcare systems. Critical and historical analyses of U.S. and non-U.S. health policy form the basis of a health policy analysis assignment. (Offered spring semester.)

Units

3 Units

Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:

None