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100. Health Services
Organization.
Lecture, two hours; discussion, one hour. Prerequisites: four
units of social sciences. Structure and function of American
health care system; issues and forces shaping its future.
M110. Ethnic, Cultural,
and Gender Issues in America's Health Care System.
(Same as Asian American Studies M110.)
Lecture, three hours. Prerequisites: four units of social sciences.
Introduction to the study of gender, ethnicity, and cultural
diversity related to the health status and health care delivery
in the United States.
134. Introduction to Health Services Research.
Lecture, four hours; fieldwork, four hours. Prerequisite: one
upper division microeconomics, statistics, calculus, or political
science course. Concepts underlying health planning, state of
the art, and some relevant literature.
150. Contemporary Health Issues.
Lecture, four hours. Prerequisite: upper division standing.
Exploration of the nation's health challenges, the epidemiologic
basis of the public's health, the organization and financing
of health services in the United States and elsewhere, and current
strategies for advancing the people's health.
199. Special Studies
(2 to 4 units).
Prerequisites: senior standing, consent of instructor and
department chair (based on written proposal outlining course
of study). Individual undergraduate guided studies under direct
faculty supervision. Study to be structured by instructor and
student at time of initial enrollment. Only four units may be
taken each term.
Graduate Courses
200A-200B. Health Systems Organization and Financing.
Lecture, four hours; discussion, two hours. Prerequisites: health
services major; four upper division courses in two of following:
social science, political science, history, economics, anthropology,
medicine or health science, law, management or organizational
behavior, operations research, philosophy; consent of instructor.
In-depth analysis of health services systems in the U.S., using
relevant theories, concepts, and models.
M204A-C. Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy.
Discussion, three hours, every other week for three terms. Prerequisites:
Economics 201A-C or equivalent, graduate standing in public
health or economics, consent of instructor. Various topics in
economics of pharmaceutical industry, including rates of innovation,
drug regulation, and economic impact of pharmaceutical. In Progress
grading.
205.
Pharmaceutical Policy
The course will acquaint students with policy issues pertaining
to the pharmaceutical sector. Topics to be covered include determinants
of expenditures on drugs, price setting in the industry, health
insurance coverage for pharmaceuticals, and the research and
development process.
206. Latino Health
Policy: Theory, Method and Data. (4 units).
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour.
This course will acquaint students with theory, method, and
data pertaining to Latino health policy issues. Topics to be
covered include minority disparity model, theories on Latino
culture, issues on communicable diseases, immigration, assimilation
and physician supply.
214. Measurements
of Effectiveness and Outcomes of Health Care.
Lecture, three hours. Prerequisites: courses 200A-200B-200C,
422, and Biostatistics 100A or equivalent, or consent of instructor.
Historical perspective for development of health status measures
and their utilization in assessment of outcomes and effectiveness
in medical care. Review of current methods in context of current
research and practice.
220. Seminar: Cost
Containment.
Lecture, three hours. Through lectures and discussion of journal
articles, analysis of success and failure of alternative methods
of controlling U.S. health care costs. Examination of how other
countries have controlled their costs.
231. History of Public
Health.
Discussion, three hours. Prerequisite: doctoral standing or
consent of instructor. Emphasis on topics which illuminate current
issues in public health policy. Discussion of historical perspectives
on health care providers, health care institutions, health care
reform movements, public health activities, child birth, and
AIDS.
232. Governmental
Health Services and Trends.
Prerequisites: course 100, two additional upper division
social or behavioral sciences courses, consent of instructor.
Systematic analysis of interface between organized programs
of personal health services and governmental agencies at all
jurisdictional levels. Study of changing relationships between
traditional public health and newer medical care and quality
control functions.
M233. Health Policy Analysis.
Lecture, two hours; discussion, two hours. Prerequisites:
course 100 or equivalent, three social sciences courses, consent
of instructor. Conceptual and procedural tools for analysis
of health policy, emphasizing role of analysis during various
phases of the life cycle of public policy.
234. Health Service Organization and Management Theory.
Prerequisites: course 131, upper division social science
course, consent of instructor. Application of contemporary organization
and management theory to systems that provide personal health
care services. Environmental characteristics, missions/goals,
structure and processes of health service organizations.
235. Law, Social Change,
and Health Service Policy.
Prerequisites: course 100, two upper division political science
or sociology courses or equivalent, consent of instructor. Legal
issues affecting policy formation for environmental, preventive,
and curative health service programs.
236. Microeconomic
Theory of the Health Sector.
Prerequisites: Biostatistics 100A or equivalent, Economics 1,
2, consent of instructor. Microeconomic aspects of the health
care system, including health manpower substitution, choice
of efficient modes of treatment, market efficiency, and competition.
237A-237B-237C. Special
Topics in Health Service Research Methodology.
Lecture, one hour; discussion, three hours. Prerequisites:
course 100, Biostatistics 100A, 100B, 100C, or equivalent, consent
of instructor. In-depth consideration of problems in application
of statistical and other quantitative methods in health services
research. Critique of adequacy of study designs, appropriateness
of analyses, and degree to which conclusions are supported by
data.
238. Politics of Health
Care.
Prerequisites: one social sciences course, consent of instructor.
Concepts and procedures for political analysis; national, state,
and local politics in health care; examination of selected case
studies.
239. Aging and Long-Term
Care.
Prerequisites: course 100, 138, Community Health Sciences 270,
or equivalent, consent of instructor. Long-term care of the
chronically ill elderly examined from the perspective of political
and sociodemographic trends, including populations at risk,
policy options, and alternative forms of care such as nursing
homes, home care, and care by informal support systems.
240. Health Care Issues
in International Perspective.
Prerequisites: two health administration courses, two upper
division social sciences courses, or equivalent, consent of
instructor. Analysis of crucial issues in health care; manpower
policy, economic support, health facilities, patterns of health
service delivery, regulation, planning, and other aspects of
health care systems probed in settings of European welfare states,
developing nations, and socialist countries.
M241. Women, Health,
and Aging: Policy Issues (2 or 4 units).
(Same as Social Welfare M290D.)
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Prerequisites: two
upper division social sciences courses, two upper division biological
sciences courses, or equivalent, consent of instructor. Social
and economic context of older women's aging, major physical
and psychological changes older women experience, delivery of
health services to this population, and policies that respond
to their health needs.
244. Seminar in Health
Services and Policy Evaluation.
Prerequisites: Biostatistics 100A, 100B, basic courses in program
evaluation and health services organization, or equivalent,
doctoral standing, consent of instructor. Seminar applying alternative
evaluation research theories and methods to health service organizations
and systems. Topics include linking evaluation criteria to policy
decisions, theories, and previous research; political and organizational
context of evaluation; utilization of findings; and meta-evaluation.
245. Society's Response
to Aging.
Prerequisites: two health services courses, two upper division
social sciences courses, or equivalent, consent of instructor.
Examination of central issues of health care delivery to the
elderly in the U.S. Topics include demographic trends, economic
characteristics, health status, demands for care, health care
financing, long-term care, and continuum of care for the aged.
246. Special Populations:
Health Service Policy Issues.
Prerequisites: courses 138, 230A-230B, 232, or equivalent, consent
of instructor. Limited to doctoral students or M.S. and M.P.H.
students with advanced degrees. Doctoral-level seminar which
focuses on health services for selected priority population
groups, integrated scientific, organizational, economic, ethical,
and political evidence as a basis for public policy. Different
populations may be selected for attention each year.
247. Research Topics
in Health Economics.
Prerequisites: courses 100, 236, 446 or equivalent, consent
of instructor. Seminar in economic analysis of current health
services issues. Critical examination of studies pertaining
to health manpower, health care costs and controls, diffusion
of technology, and cost-benefit analysis of health programs.
248. Small Area Planning
for Resources for Personal Health Service.
Lecture, three hours: laboratory, two hours. Prerequisites:
courses 100, 134, or equivalent, consent of instructor. General
planning theory and health planning theory, methods, and experience
with planning for personal health care resources for small geographic
areas. Determining needs and estimating required utilization
levels and health care resources. Survey of elements of different
disciplines used in areawide health planning. Laboratory projects
and exercises designed to implement studies of health planning
theory and methods.
249A-249Z. Special
Topics in Health Services (2 to 4 units each.)
Prerequisites: consent of instructor, additional prerequisites
for each offering as announced in advance by department. Advanced
seminars covering current issues and special topics in health
policy, health financing, and organization and administration
of health services. Sections offered on regular basis, with
topics announced in preceding term. May be repeated for credit
with topic change.
249D. Principles of
Organization Leadership: Applications in Public Health and Welfare.
Prerequisites: doctoral level standing or consent of instructor.
Course examines principles and models of organization leadership
including presentation by current leaders in the fields of health
and welfare. Will also consider theories and empirical investigations
of leadership qualities.
249E. Health
Policy Seminar.
Prerequisites: courses 200A, 236, Biostatistics 100A, 100B,
or equivalent, consent of instructor. Limited to doctoral students
and M.S. or M.P.H. students with advanced degrees. Public policy
concerning payment for medical care services and characteristics
of the market for those services: demand for care, fee-for-services
and prepaid payment systems, regulation of price and capital
investment, private sector efforts to control health care costs.
249F. Quality
Assessment and Assurance.
Prerequisites: course 100, Biostatistics 100A, Epidemiology
100, one additional health services or epidemiology course,
or equivalent, consent of instructor. Fundamental issues in
quality assessment, quality assurance, and measurement of health
status.
249G. Medical
Technology - Development, Diffusion, Assessment, and Health
Services.
Prerequisites: courses 200A-200B-200C, 238, or equivalent, one
upper division policy analysis course. Doctoral-level seminar
focusing on public policies that pertain to advancement of medical
science and development of new technologies and promotion and
regulation of their use. i
249H. Current Research
Issues. (2-4 units)
Prerequisites: doctoral level standing or consent of instructors.
Review of articles in health services journals nominated as
the best published during the past year. Articles will be analyzed
to determine contribution to theory, methods, and/or implications
for management or policy in Health Services Organizations or
Health Services as a field.
249I. Research Methodology.
Prerequisites: doctoral level standing, courses 237A-C. Course
emphasizes theory-driven model building and specification, operationalization,
data definition and documentation, data screening and transformation
techniques, the use of indexes and scares and data reduction
methods.
249J. Mental Health
Services.
Prerequisites: 200A-200B-200C, doctoral level standing or consent
of instructor. Survey of contemporary American delivery of health
services to the emotionally and mentally ill and retarded. Analysis
of characteristics of such services, with historical background
of their evolution, and projections of their future prospects.
249K. Health Care
Practice Guidelines, Variations in Care, and Patient Outcomes.
Prerequisites: HS 200A-200B-200C, Biostatistics 100A-100B, HS
422. Critical review and discussion of variations in care, and
the implementation of clinical guidelines.
249L. Ethical Issues
in Public Health.
Prerequisites: HS 200A-200B-200C. Ethical aspects of public
health and management of health services, the impact of legislation
and judicial decisions on the scope of ethical decision-making.
250. Evolution of
the Health Professions in the Twentieth Century.
Lecture, two hours; discussion 2 hours. Review of the forces
responsible for the dramatic changes in the composition of the
"helping" professions, and a description of the processes
by which lay persons are educated/socialized into the major
subgroups of the health professions. The major social forces
external to the health care system affecting the composition
of the work force also will be reviewed.
251. Process Improvement
and Information Systems in Health Care Organizations.
Introduction to concepts of health care quality measurement,
process improvement, and information systems, as well as organizational
aspects of implementing them.
M252. Medicare
Reform (same as Policy Studies MS267).
Lecture, 3 hours; outside study, 9 hours. Designed for graduate
students. Analytical and managerial skills learned earlier to
be used to analyze problems with existing medicare program and
to develop specific options for reforming features of program
to accommodate coming pressures generated by retirement of baby-boom
generation.
265. Challenges in
Clinical Health Services Research.
Prerequisites:
courses 200A-B. Course is designed to prepare students for the
challenges involved in conducting health services research on
clinical topics and populations. Topics include: formulated
appropriate questions, identifying sources, mechanics of conducting
field studies, identifying funding sources, writing grants,
and publishing findings.
286.
American Political Institutions and Health Policy.
Seminar, 3 hours.
Federal and state health politics and policy-making, through
the lens of American political institutions. In-depth analysis
of the evolution of Congress, the Presidency, executive agencies,
courts, state government, and the interaction between America's
political development and the health care system. Case studies
are used to illustrate the pivotal role of political institutions
in shaping health policy. For students in the Health Services
policy track, the course is the first of a three course sequence
on policy and policy analysis.
M287. Politics of
Health Policy.
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Prerequisites: courses
200A-B, or Community Health Sciences 210. Examination of politics
of health policy process, including effects of political structure
and institutions; economic and social factors, interest groups,
classes, and social movements; media and public opinion, and
other factors.
400. Field Studies
in Public Health (2 or 4 units).
Prerequisites: consent of instructor. Field observation and
studies in selected community organizations for health promotion
or medical care. Students must file field placement and program
training documentation on form available from Student Affairs
Office. May not be applied toward M.S. minimum course requirement;
four units may be applied toward 44-unit minimum total required
for M.P.H. degree.
403.
Financial Accounting
Provide introduction to financial and managerial accounting
and its application to the health services industry. The course
will also provide the basis for understanding of the "language
of business."
M411. Issues in Cancer
Prevention and Control.
Introduction to causes and characteristics of the cancer epidemic,
cancer control goals for the nation, and interventions designed
to encourage smoking cessation/prevention, cancer screening,
and other dietary, psychosocial, and lifestyle changes.
422. Practices of Evaluation in Health Services: Theory and
Methodology.
Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Prerequisites: Health
Services masters students or consent of instructor. Introduction
to health services evaluation. Examination and performance of
specific evaluation procedures. Conducting of health services
investigations, reporting results and methodologies. In progress
grading.
425. Law and Epidemiology.
Examination of the relationship between law and epidemiology,
including the rise in litigation over mass exposure to toxic
materials, other environmental hazards, and potential harms
from pharmaceuticals and medical devices.
431. Managerial Processes in Health Service Organizations.
Lecture, one hour; laboratory, three hours. Prerequisites: course
234, consent of instructor. Managerial skills and behaviors
applied to components of organizations at several levels: individual,
interpersonal, group, intergroup, interorganization, and system.
Unique features of health service organizations are stressed
as applications are presented.
432. Integrative Seminar in Health Services Management.
Prerequisites: course 431. Residents and preceptors are responsible
for presenting cases of actual administrative problems for solution
by teams of students and faculty.
433. Health Service Organization Policy and Strategy.
Lecture three hours; discussion, one hour. Prerequisites: courses
131, 234, 400 (at least six units), or equivalent, consent of
instructor. Conceptual, analytical, and technical aspects of
policy and strategy formulation in health service organizations.
Special attention to structure and dynamics of competitive markets,
corporate-level strategic planning and marketing, managerial
ethics and values, organizational creativity innovation.
434. Employer/Employee Health Management.
Lecture, two hours; discussion, two hours. Prerequisites: course
100, a combination of three graduate courses in health planning,
hospital finance, health policy, health insurance, occupational
health, health services research, and health information systems,
or equivalent, consent of instructor. Preview and analysis of
how employer and employee groups provide, sponsor, and manage
health-related services for others.
435. Management Science
for Health Planning and Administration.
Lecture, three hours; laboratory, two hours. Prerequisites:
Biostatistics 100A and either Biostatistics 403 or Management
404, or equivalent, consent of instructor. Introduction to use
of quantitative analyses to support managerial and operational
decisions in health services organizations. Topics include mathematical
models for structuring decisions, resource allocation, inventory
control, task sequencing, scheduling, and forecasting. Use of
microcomputers.
436. Financial Management
of Health Service Organizations.
Prerequisites: courses 131, 132, 234, or equivalent, consent
of instructor. Application of financial management and accounting
principles to health care facilities, including unique financial
characteristics of health care facilities, third-party reimbursement,
cost finding and rate setting, operational and capital budgeting,
auditing, and risk management.
437. Legal Environment
of Health Service Management (2 units).
Prerequisites: course 131 or equivalent, consent of instructor.
General survey of legal aspects of health services management,
including governance, agency, informed consent, medical malpractice,
contracts, negligence, and case law relating to health facility
operations.
438. Issues and Problems
of Local Health Administration.
Prerequisites: course 100, Epidemiology 100, one additional
health services course, or equivalent, consent of instructor.
Analysis of organizational issues currently faced by local health
departments in increasing scope and quality of services; exploration
of administrative problems and inter-agency relationships.
439. Dental Care Administration.
Prerequisites or co requisites: Biostatistics 100A, Epidemiology
100, or equivalent, consent of instructor. In-depth examination
of several specific dental care policy issues: manpower, relationship
of treatment to disease, national health program strategies,
and evaluation mechanisms.
440A. Health Information Systems: Organization and Management.
Lecture, two hours; laboratory, three hours. Prerequisites:
courses 200A-200B-200C or equivalent, consent of instructor.
Principles of and systems relating to organization and management
of a health facility's health information system.
440B. Health Information Systems: Organization and Management.
Lecture, two hours; laboratory, three hours. Prerequisites:
course 440A or equivalent, consent of instructor. Health and
administrative research using clinical records. Principles of
planning for routine and special studies. Individual investigation
in methods of obtaining and processing data to meet needs of
programs in institution and agency. Introduction to principles
of medical auditing; analysis of medical and health services.
441. Ambulatory Care in the U.S.
Seminar, three hours. Prerequisites: courses 132, 200A-200B-200C,
and Management 403, or equivalent, or consent of instructor.
Introduction to organization and management concepts, problems,
and issues in ambulatory health services, including financial
management and information systems requirements.
442A. Managed Health Care: Quality and Cost.
Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Overview of issues related
to growth, management, and planning of managed health care systems.
Review of role of HMOs and PPOs, as well as discussion of managed
care as a solution.
442B. Managed Care
Practices.
Prerequisite: 442A. Introduction to practices and methodologies
required of those participating in managed care sector. Attention
to pros and cons and advantages and disadvantages of various
aspects of managed care. Topics include revenue maximization
and cost control, negotiating and contractual relationships
among the parties to deliver care, and quality and performance
measurement.
443A. Preventive Medicine in Public Health Practice.
Lecture, two hours; discussion, two hours. Prerequisites: courses
100 or 200A-200B-200C, Biostatistics 100A, Epidemiology 100,
graduate standing, consent of instructor. Development, current
status, and potential of preventive medicine in public health
practice, focusing on risk indicator approach (exercise, alcohol,
stress, etc.), with consideration of program settings, delivery
problems and issues.
443D. Advanced Hospital Financial Management Simulation.
Lecture, one hour; discussion, one hour; laboratory, two hours.
Prerequisites: courses 100, 132, 436, consent of instructor.
Practical aspects of hospital management decisions in a changing
environment examined through computer simulation, with particular
attention to economic projections, demand patterns, investment
programs, and health care regulations.
443E. Advanced Hospital Financial Management.
Prerequisites: courses 100, 131, 132, 436, or equivalent, consent
of instructor. Hospital financial management, including reimbursement
management, capital financing, and capital investment analysis,
discussed and analyzed with respect to students' individual
residency sites.
444. Applied Methodology in Health Planning.
Lecture, three hours; fieldwork, four hours. Prerequisites:
courses 230A-230B, or equivalent, consent of instructor. Demonstration
of methodology of health planning by involving students in formulation
of actual health plan for existing agency in Los Angeles area.
446. Financing Health Care.
Prerequisites: course 100, Economics 1, 2, or equivalent, consent
of instructor. Patterns of health care financing by consumers,
providers, third-party intermediaries; trends in health service
use; expenditures, national health insurance, and international
comparisons of health financing.
447. State Health Policy Issues.
Seminar, three hours. Prerequisite: course 238. Focus on health
policy development and implementation at state government level,
with emphasis on financing, direct provision, and regulation
of health care services, facilities, equipment technology, and
manpower. Exploration of intergovernmental relationships.
447D. Management of Health Maintenance Organizations.
Lecture, three hours. Prerequisites: courses 100, 134, or equivalent,
consent of instructor. Alternative approaches to fee-for-service
for paying, providing, or arranging for delivery of health care
services, and relating these approaches to national health policy.
447E. Health Insurance Principles and Programs.
Prerequisites: courses 100, 232, one additional health services
course, or equivalent, consent of instructor. Examination of
social actuarial, and commercial assumptions underlying private
health insurance. Comparison with government-sponsored health
insurance. Analysis of diversity of voluntary medical care insurance
plans under different sponsorships and with varied scopes of
coverage and benefits and their implications for public and
private medical care developments.
M448. Health Policy Issues for Dental Professionals (2 units).
(Same as Dentistry M422.)
Prerequisites: course 100, Biostatistics 103, Epidemiology 100,
or equivalent, consent of instructor. Current public health
policy issues in dental health, including cost, financing, role
of government, and quality assurance.
M448D. Case Studies in Dental Practice (2 units).
(Same as Dentistry M433A.)
Provides students with practice methodology for evaluation of
dental care settings. Didactic and field experience, providing
foundation for evaluation of programs.
M448E. Introduction to Health Care (2 units).
(Same as Dentistry M441C.)
Description and analysis of American dental care system form
historical, ethical, and legal perspectives. Assessment of how
dentistry fits within general provision of health care services
in America, with comparisons to dental care provisions in other
countries.
495. Teacher Preparation in Health Services (2 units).
Prerequisites: 18 units of cognate courses in area of specialization,
consent of department chair. May not be applied toward master's
degree minimum total course requirement. May be repeated for
credit. S/U grading.
498. Quality Assessment and Improvement.
The goals of this course is to prepare students to implement
quality assessment, and improvement programs in various health
care settings including acute care hospitals, long-term care
facilities and ambulatory care facilities.
501. Cooperative Program (2 to 8 units).
Prerequisite: consent of UCLA graduate adviser and graduate
dean, and host campus instructor, department chair, and graduate
dean. Used to record enrollment of UCLA students in courses
taken under cooperative arrangements with USC. No more than
eight units may be applied toward master's degree minimum total
course requirement; may not be applied toward minimum graduate
course requirement. S/U grading.
596. Directed Individual Study or Research (2 to 8 units).
Prerequisites: graduate standing, consent of instructor.
Individual guided studies under direct faculty supervision.
Only four units may be applied toward M.P.H. and M.S. minimum
total course requirement. May be repeated for credit.
597. Preparation for Master's Comprehensive or Doctoral Qualifying
Examinations (2 to 8 units).
Prerequisites: graduate standing, consent of instructor.
May not applied toward any degree course requirements. May be
repeated for credit. S/U grading.
598. Master's Thesis Research (2 to 8 units).
Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Only four units may be applied toward M.P.H. and M.S. minimum
total course requirement; may not be applied toward minimum
graduate course requirement. May be repeated for credit. S/U
grading.
599. Doctoral Dissertation Research (2 to 8 units).
Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
May not be applied toward any degree course requirements. May
be repeated for credit. S/U grading.
Please e-mail Health Services' Student
Affairs Officer Nanette Ramzan (nramzan@ucla.edu)
for further HS course information.
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