The purpose of this course is to provide students with an overview of issues in access to health care. Students will gain an understanding of the way in which barriers to care affect access. Barriers can be viewed in terms of their effects on specific population groups or on specific causes of morbidity and mortality.
Barriers can also be systemic or organizational.
Systemic barriers are those that result from the way that the US healthcare system is organized and financed. Organizational barriers are those that can be altered within individual organizations or systems. At the conclusion of this course, students will be required to develop a recommendation for reducing or eliminating a specific barrier to care. A database will search your terms in the title, source, and body of the text of each record. Subject searching is much more specific.