UM SPH Executive Education Courses

Health Management and Policy Executive Masters

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Students in the On Job/On Campus Executive Masters program will be pre-registered for these courses by their departmental Student Service Representatives. For further information please contact your Departmental Student Services Representative.

Common Courses for Both Degrees (MPH and MHSA)

BIOSTAT503

Introduction to Biostatistics

Fall term(s)

4 Credit Hour(s)

Instructor(s): Staff; Mukherjee, Bhramar

Offered every year

Prerequisites: Elementary algebra

Fundamental statistical concepts related to the practice of public health: descriptive statistics; probability; sampling; statistical distributions; estimation; hypothesis testing; chi-square tests; simple and multiple linear regression; one-way ANOVA. Use of computer in statistical analysis.

Syllabus for BIOSTAT503 (PDF, 91474 bytes, last modified on Wednesday, September 03, 2008 )

EHS500

Principles of Environmental Health Sciences

Fall term(s)

2 Credit Hour(s)

Instructor(s): Hu, Howard

Prerequisites: Seniors with Perm. Instr.

This course provides a broad overview of some of the most important and current challenges to human health from environmental and occupational risk factors while teaching the basic knowledge and multi-disciplinary skills used to assess, control, and prevent them. We will address specific threats, such as outdoor and indoor air pollution, toxic metals, pesticides, radiation and occupational stressors; analyze impacts on specific diseases and injuries, such as cardiovascular disease, asthma, cancer, musculoskeletal injuries and impaired child development;; and introduce emerging threats, such as the hormone-mimicing potential of plastic chemicals and the impact of global climate change on heat-related mortality and shifting patterns of infectious disease. Emphasis will also be given to understanding the worsening environmental health impacts of industrialization on developing countries, the effects of globalization, such as the growing movement of hazardous industries, products, and wastes across borders. and the rise of the environmental justice movement. The course fulfills the MPH core competency in environmental health and is also open to students in LSA and other UM graduate schools. A basic understanding (high school level) of human biology and chemistry is recommended.

EPID503

Strategies and Uses of Epidemiology

Winter term(s)

3 Credit Hour(s)

Instructor(s): Eisenberg, Joseph

Last offered Winter, 2008

Prerequisites: Biostat 503, Grad Status

This course offers an introduction to the principles, concepts, and methods of population-based epidemiologic research. It is intended to be the introductory course for students who are NOT majoring in Epidemiology. The course will be divided into three primary sections. The first section will serve as an introduction to the basic principles of epidemiology and the measures used in epidemiology. The second section will discuss epidemiologic study design (including case-control, cohort studies) and analysis (including bias, confounding, effect modification). The third section will cover special topics that are important to an introductory understanding of epidemiology (including outbreak investigations, screening, and the role of epidemiology in public health.

HBEHED600

Psychosocial Factors in Health-Related Behavior

Fall term(s)

3 Credit Hour(s)

Instructor(s): Strecher, Vic

Psychological and social determinants of health, illness, and sick role behavior, emphasizing the decisional bases for health-related actions. Critical review of models of health behavior. Role of social communication and influence processes in health decisions. Application of concepts from behavioral science to a variety of health problem areas.

Syllabus for HBEHED600 (PDF, 179307 bytes, last modified on Tuesday, November 04, 2008 )

HMP565

Spreadsheet Modeling

term(s)

1 Credit Hour(s)

Instructor(s): Staff

HMP600

The Health Services System I

Fall term(s)

3 Credit Hour(s)

Instructor(s): Lichtenstein, Richard L

Prerequisites: Enrollment in HMP or Perm Instr

First part of two-course sequence focusing on major issues in the organization of a health services system: role of values; assessment of health status; analysis of need, access and use of services; current supply and distribution of health resources; analysis of health care costs and expenditures. Students enrolling in HMP 600 are expected to also complete HMP 601.

HMP601

The Health Services System II

Winter term(s)

3 Credit Hour(s)

Instructor(s): Wyszewianski, Leon

Prerequisites: HMP 600

Second part of two-course sequence focusing on major issues in the organization of health services system: private and public financing of health services; quality of care assessment; control of quality and costs of care through market-oriented strategies, professional self-regulation, managerial approaches, and government regulations; and system reform.

HMP606

Managerial Accounting for Health Care Administrators

Winter term(s)

3 Credit Hour(s)

Instructor(s): Grazier, Kyle; Smith, Dean G

Prerequisites: Intermediate microeconomics theory

Concepts and techniques of managerial accounting for generalist health care administrators. Topics covered include full cost measurement, differential cost measurement and analysis, sources of revenue, price setting, budgeting and control, costs and decision-making fund accounting

HMP607

Corporate Finance for Health Care Administrators

Fall term(s)

3 Credit Hour(s)

Instructor(s): Wheeler, John RC

Prerequisites: HMP606

Corporate finance theory and applications to health care organizations. Topics include the capital expenditure decision, the capital financing decision, financial feasibility, financial planning, cash management, and financial aspects of prepayment programs. The course makes extensive use of case studies.

HMP631

Health Insurance and Payment Systems

Winter term(s)

3 Credit Hour(s)

Instructor(s): Grazier, Kyle

Not offered 2008-2009

Prerequisites: HMP 600, HMP 602, HMP 606, HMP 661 or Perm Instr

This course examines the conceptual and management frameworks for financing health care services through insurance, contracting and managed care. It analyzes past and current research on the formulation of payment techniques and the impact of reimbursement methods on consumers, providers, payers and society. The course explores the theories on which health care pricing, payment and reimbursement systems are based and the administrative and financial mechanisms through which they operate. Lectures, cases, readings.

HMP652

Health Law

Fall term(s)

3 Credit Hour(s)

Instructor(s): Jacobson, Peter

Prerequisites: HMP 600, 601

The purpose of this course is to introduce public health students, especially those interested in health administration and management, to the legal issues they are likely to face in managing a health care organization. The goals of the course are for students to understand generally: the functions of and interaction between courts, legislatures, regulators; the role of the courts in health policy and health care delivery; how to recognize legal issues and communicate with attorneys; how law will affect students as strategic thinkers in health care positions; how to apply basic tort and contract principles; and how to apply basic corporate law and antitrust principles. Specific topics will vary, but will usually include: liability; health care institutions as corporations; antitrust; tax exemption; privacy and confidentiality; regulatory oversight of health care systems, including quality of care; legal requirements for access to health care; nondiscrimination; and general employment issues. This class can be taken as an elective or in fulfillment of the law/politics requirement.

HMP654

Operations Research and Control Systems

Fall term(s)

3 Credit Hour(s)

Instructor(s): Mendez, David

Prerequisites: Biostat 503 or Biostat 553 or equiv and Grad Status

Provides rational framework for decision making for both operating and control systems in the hospital environment. Emphasizes basic modeling techniques and examples of actual hospital applications. Aims at thorough understanding of concepts of total value analysis, objective function formation, and exception reporting. Students become familiar with operations research techniques of inventory modeling, queuing, computer simulation, PERT/CPM, mathematical programming, and quality control. Presentation emphasizes objectives, constraints, and required assumptions of each of these techniques as applied to specific hospital examples.

HMP656

Understanding Organizations

term(s)

1 Credit Hour(s)

Instructor(s): Alexander, Jeffrey A; Staff

HMP660

Economics of Health Management and Policy I

Fall term(s)

3 Credit Hour(s)

Instructor(s): Hirth, Richard

Prerequisites: Grad Status

This course covers the principles of microeconomic theory and the fundamental concepts of the field of health economics. The focus is on individual behavior (demand), firm behavior (supply), and how these forces interact to yield market outcomes (prices and quantities) in health and health care. No previous background in economics is assumed. The purpose of the course is not to train you to be health care economists, rather it is to give you experience analyzing health management and health policy issues using economic tools. The basic framework of economics will be used to analyze the behavior of consumers, insurers, physicians, and hospitals. The tools of economics will be applied to both managerial issues such as pricing decisions and policy issues such as the medically uninsured. Additionally, these economic tools will be used to predict how various parties might respond to changes in the health care system.

HMP661

Economics of Health Services (Econ 438)

Winter term(s)

3 Credit Hour(s)

Instructor(s): Norton, Edward

Not offered 2008-2009

Prerequisites: HMP 660, Econ 401, SPP 555 or Perm Instr

This course gives students experience analyzing health management and health policy issues using economic tools. The basic framework of economics is used to analyze the behavior of consumers, insurers, physicians, and hospitals. The tools of economics are applied to both managerial issues such as pricing decisions and policy issues such as the medically uninsured, By the end of the course, students should be able to assess the potential impact of hypothetical changes in the health care system on costs and access as well as on providers and consumers.

This course is cross-listed with ECON438 in the Literature Science & the Arts (Economics) Econ is the home dept. department.

HMP682

Case Studies in Health Services Administration

Winter term(s)

3 Credit Hour(s)

Instructor(s): Grazier, Kyle

Prerequisites: Second year HMP masters candidate or Perm Instr

Analysis of cases dealing with administrative and policy issues in health services, offered as one of two integrative capstone course for persons completing the MHSA or MPH in the Department of Health Management and Policy. The course addresses primarily issues of healthcare delivery, from the perspective of corporate strategy. Emphasis is on student solutions to ill-defined, multi-faceted problems taken from actual situations. Specific competencies developed by the course address both process team work and collaboration to analyze complex issues, presentation skills and contents identifying key business success factors and strategic alternatives for provider organizations and health insurers in various settings.

HMP691

Introductory Seminar

term(s)

1 Credit Hour(s)

Instructor(s): Wyszewianski, Leon

This course familiarizes students in the HMP OJOC MPH/MHSA program with currently important research in health policy and management. Seminar sessions are conducted by guest researchers who discuss projects addressing issues related to provider organization, regulatory policy, payment system incentives, quality of care, and host of other areas currently significant to health policy and management. The seminar series includes seven 2-hour sessions spaced over the 2-year OJOC calendar.

HMP692

Case Studies in Health Management & Policy

term(s)

4 Credit Hour(s)

Instructor(s): Smith, Dean G; Smith, Dean G

Prerequisites: HMP 600/601

This course is a case study course for students completing the MHSA or MPH degree in the Executive Program in health management and policy. Its principal purposes are to integrate the material covered elsewhere in the curriculum and to develop the student's skills in presentation and applications.

HMP699

Current Issues in Public Health

term(s)

1-3 Credit Hour(s)

Instructor(s): Citrin, Toby

This course will explore four priority issues facing the public health system: Workforce training deficiencies; smoking prevention; genetics in public health and the implications of managed care. Each issue will be presented by a guest lecturer with expertise in the topic. Advanced reading will be selected by the guest lecturers. Each lecture will be followed by a discussion session, and further discussion will be carried out on the CourseTools web site. For an optional two credit hours, students will write a term paper analyzing one of the issues presented.

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