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3.00 Credits
A survey of the American Health Care System that examines the elements related to the organization, delivery, financing and planning of health services.
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3.00 Credits
This course will present the United States’ health care system from a cost perspective. Students examine the history of health care costs in the U.S., the nature of competition, the characteristics of the market for medical services that influence competition, and the implications of these factors on the health care sector of our economy. Special emphasis will be placed on the most current legislation and administrative proposals/ enactments. Prerequisite- Corequisite Prerequiste: HCM 193 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Managed Health Delivery Systems is designed to engage students in a learning process about the intricacies of managed care. It will provide a core of basic information about managed care in the United States - history, promises and shortcomings. In addition, this course will focus on managerial parameters of managed care. Strategies for marketing services, physician recruitment and price quality competition will be presented in the context of the new market place realities. Finally, consumer health behavior and utilization dynamics will be discussed and evaluated from the standpoint of their practical rather than theoretical significance. Prerequisite- Corequisite Prerequisite: HCM 193 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Health care ethics is designed for health care professionals and students planning to enter the health care field. It offers participants the chance to understand health care ethics. Some topics covered in the course will include: autonomy in long-term care settings and withdrawing fluids and nutrition, euthanasia, and physician assisted suicide (medicide); HIV, reproductive rights, allocating health care resources, institutional missions, and obligations, competition and entrepreneurship in health care, and rationing.
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3.00 Credits
Economics of Health and Medical Care is designed for students that seek an understanding of the tools, vocabulary, and way of thinking about economics as it is applied to decision making in the delivery of health services, administration, and policy. The basic methods of micro-economics will be emphasized as tools to help individuals, organizations, and policy makers, make better decisions about health care in the United States. Prerequisite- Corequisite Prerequisite HCM 193 and HCM 194.
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3.00 Credits
Long-term care will be studied in its current and dynamic environment. Students will learn how longterm care has evolved in the United States. Specific emphasis will be placed on levels of care, payment systems, social and economic concerns, current legislative initiatives, and the future needs of our expanding long-term care population.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to both the study of history and the evolution of modern society, including its basic ideas, values and institutions, through an examination of Western Civilization. The Age of Transition - the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment. The Industrial Transformation, appearance of modern constitutional and authoritarian government, major socio-political ideologies - liberalism, socialism, communism, nationalism, imperialism, fascism, totalitarianism. The intellectual crisis of the 20th Century, World Wars I and II; the Rise and Fall of the Cold War.
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3.00 Credits
A course in world history to 1500CE. Prehistory and the origins of civilization. Development of early civilizations in western Asia, Africa, India, China, and the Americas. Classical Mediterranean civilizations (Greece, Rome). Medieval civilizations of Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Development of cities, writing, technology, trade, and cultural traditions. Material and cultural exchanges between civilizations. Beginnings of the modern world.
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3.00 Credits
A course on modern Western civilization in relation to other civilizations and societies. Early modern societies of Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Age of discovery and the first colonial empires. Early development of world trade and cultural exchange. Renaissance and reformation, scientific, technological, and industrial revolutions. Age of the Atlantic revolutions in Europe and the Americas. Evolution of modern social and political life. Age of imperialism. Era of the two world wars and political changes in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. The Cold War and the collapse of the colonial empires. The contemporary world.
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3.00 Credits
The United States from 1607 to 1877. The colonies, Revolution, Constitution, early national period, Jacksonian era, expansion, Civil War and Reconstruction, and Westward Movement. Survey of political, economic, social and cultural developments through most of the 19th century. Satisfies the civic education requirement.
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