HCM 6010 - Healthcare Systems, Services, and Infrastructure - A Global Perspective

(3 units)

This course provides an overview of the evolution, structure and current issues in the health care system. It examines the unique features of health care as a product, and the changing relationships between patients, physicians, hospitals, insurers, employers, communities, and government. Coursework examines the structure of health care systems in different counties, focusing on financing, reimbursement, delivery systems and adoption of new technologies along three broad dimensions of the health care industry: payers, providers and suppliers. The course also encompasses study of creative solutions such as drug development partnerships, public-private partnerships, and other incentive programs to engage the private sector in the development of vaccines and medicines for tropical and neglected diseases, as well as therapeutic approaches and care systems for the rapidly growing problems of chronic diseases in populations in the developing world.