Course Descriptions
- HPA500 Introduction to the Health Care System (3): Orientation to delivery, financing, and organization of the health care system.
- HPA501 Health Care Policy and Politics (3): History, methods, results, and evaluation of health care policy and politics.
- HPA502 Law and Ethics of Health Management (3): Private health law and ethics, including professional liability, relationship of physician and patient, malpractice reform, health institutions, and health access.
- HPA503 Government Regulation of Health Services (3): Public law regulation; health care quality, personhood and individual autonomy, life/death decisions, antitrust, health care financing and cost control.
- HPA509 Health Care Economics (3): Allocating, financing, and delivering medical care services. Prerequisite: microeconomics
- HPA510 Health Care Cost Accounting (3): Basic cost-accounting concepts, principles, and applications in the health care setting. Prerequisite: basic financial accounting.
- HPA511 Health Care Finance (3): Aspects of health care financial management fundamentals and managerial accounting for strategic financial management. Prerequisite: HPA 512
- HPA512 Health Management Decision Science (3): Application of decision science technology to risk-analysis problems in healthcare for both investor-owned and non-profit entities. Prerequisite: HPA 510.
- HPA515 Health Care Management (3): Introduction to the knowledge, skills, and values associated with the practice of health management.
- HPA516 Health Quality Management (3): Overview of the total field of health quality, including strategic quality management programs, quality assurance, quality control and design.
- HPA599.1 Health Care Human Resources Management: Application of human resource management principles (e.g., recruitment, selection, performance appraisal, compensation, benefits, retention, and termination) in health care.
- HPA519 Biostatistics and Epidemiology for the Health Sciences (3): Application of quantitative methods to problems in the health sciences. Introduction to statistical analysis software.
- HPA520 Research and Evaluation Methods (3): Basic research and evaluation methods for health care professionals. Prerequisite: statistics or HPA 519.
- HPA530 Health Care Information Systems (3): Key attributes of health care information systems and their evolution in the health care environment.
- HPA570 Marketing for Health Care Organizations (1): Basic marketing concepts, principles, and issues related to marketing public and private health care.
- HPA571 Managed Care/Integrated Delivery Systems (3): Business, regulatory, and liability issues in the field of managed care. Prerequisite: HPA 500, 511
- HPA572 Health Care Ethics (3): Ethical issues affecting health care institutions, professionals, and consumers.
- HPA573 Comparative International Health Care (3): Analysis of key attributes of health care policy in selected countries and comparisons with the US health care system.
- HPA574 Rural Health Care in America (3): The unique characteristics, professional opportunities, problems, and reform alternatives in rural health care.
- HPA575 Aging and Long-term Care Administration (3): Introduction to issues in population aging and requirements for administration of aging and long-term care programs.
- HPA576 Managing Change for Healthier Communities (3): Prepares health leaders for managing change to create healthier communities through understanding determinants of health and implications of collaborative approaches.
- HPA577 Women’s Health: Social, Psychological, and Physiological Issues (2): Contemporary issues in women’s health focusing on physiological, social, and psychological aspects.
- HPA578 Innovative Leadership and Management (3): Key issues affecting nursing administration; nursing and management theories for application in nursing service settings. Same as Nurs 513.
- HPA579 Mental Health Policy and Law: Professions regulation, negligence, consent, privacy; civil commitment, treatment rights, guardianship, trial competency, insanity defense, sex offenders, execution capacity, entitlements, discrimination.
- HPA580 Disability and Aging Policy (3): Policy aspects of disability, aging and chronic illness; including work disability, health and long term care, rationing, gender and class.
- HPA590 Strategic Management and Marketing (3): Key components and processes in strategic planning. Prerequisite: HPA 511, 515
- HPA596 Seminar in Health Policy (V, 1–3): May be repeated for credit; cumulative maximum 9 hours. Major problems and research issues in health policy through dialogue among students and experts.
- HPA597 Internship (V, 1–5): Student experience in professional work settings. S, F grading.
- HPA599 Special Topics: Health Policy and Administration (V, 1–3): May be repeated for credit; cumulative maximum 9 hours.
- HPA600 Special Projects or Independent Study (V): S, F grading.
- HPA700 Master's Research, Thesis, and/or Examination (V): S, F grading.
- HPA702 Masters’ Special Problems, Directed Study, and/or Examination (V): S, F grading.