Credits Health Care Policy Development and History Students will explore the history of health care delivery and policy development in the United States and globally. Students will analyze, from a historical perspective, the impact of history on policy development, both present and future. References will include works on history and policy, as well as analysis of the works of health care analysts. This course presents statistical methods commonly used in the collection and analysis of health research data. Statistical software will be used.
Emphasis is on understanding and applying statistical concepts and techniques to research data.
This course provides a review of the research process, including design, measurement, and statistical analysis. Emphasis is placed on the selection of appropriate methodologies for a variety of problem- solving situations. Emphasis is placed on qualitative and quantitative research methods. The focus of this course is to introduce students to qualitative research methods of inquiry. Phenomenological inquiry, grounded theory, ethnography, and other approaches to qualitative research will be examined.