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HESY-010 Health Care in America: The Fractured System
This course provides an introduction to the healthcare system, orienting the student to its overall structure, functions, and processes. It provides a social, political, and economic context for understanding contemporary healthcare systems, discusses the organization and financing of healthcare, and furnishes vocabulary and a frame of reference for students to understand the dilemmas in the current healthcare environment. Addressing the complex inter-relationships of system elements, the course uses an organizing theme of well functioning biological and other systems in comparison to systems in healthcare, and provides a basic framework for understanding the roles of community health, economics, ethics, politics, health insurance models, and the business community in shaping public policy.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
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Fall '09:
Goldenberg, R
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HESY-010-01 Health Care in America: The Fractured System
This course provides an introduction to the healthcare system, orienting the student to its overall structure, functions, and processes. It provides a social, political, and economic context for understanding contemporary healthcare systems, discusses the organization and financing of healthcare, and furnishes vocabulary and a frame of reference for students to understand the dilemmas in the current healthcare environment. Addressing the complex inter-relationships of system elements, the course uses an organizing theme of well functioning biological and other systems in comparison to systems in healthcare, and provides a basic framework for understanding the roles of community health, economics, ethics, politics, health insurance models, and the business community in shaping public policy.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
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