The second part of the course examines the supply of health care, including professional training, licensure, specialization and compensation, hospital competition and finance and the determinants and consequences of technical change in medicine. The course concludes with an examination of recent proposals and initiatives for healthcare reform. This course is a seminar on organizational analysis of health care organizations such as hospitals, health care networks, medical groups, managed care organizations, nursing homes, hospice providers, and so on. We will use various theories and approaches in organizational analysis to understand rapid and dynamic changes that the health care field has experienced in the last two decades. This course will provide an introduction to the basic concepts of statistics as applied to the bio-medical and public health sciences.
Emphasis is on the use and interpretation of statistical tools For data analysis.
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