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.

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  & 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.