SOCIOL 681 - Health Care Policy

3 Credit(s)

Description:
This course focuses on recent changes in health care policy and in the organization of medicine, with special attention to the impact of these changes on the delivery, distribution, and quality of health services. Additional emphasis is given to the history of medicine; the political economy of health care; inequality in utilization of and access to health services; rising costs and cost containment programs; attempts at regulation; and government health programs and private health service organizations.

Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Applied Sociology or Sociology PhD

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