| 174:100 Executive Seminar Series |
0 s.h. |
| Issues in the health care industry; talks by executives
from academic health centers, health-related associations, multi
hospital systems, government agencies, health maintenance organizations,
community hospitals, health insurance industry. |
| 174:102 Introduction to US Health Care System |
3 s.h. |
| The US health care system; socioeconomic,
political and environmental forces that influence the organization,
financing and delivery of personal and pulic health services;
health services, policy, concepts, terminology. Same as 06J:159. |
| 174:140 Mental Health Services and Policy I |
3 s.h. |
| Contemporary mental health services and policy;
characteristics of mental health services, historical background,
evolution, future prospectus. Same as 096:100. |
| 174:144 Medicare and Medicaid Policy |
3 s.h. |
| Health policies most pertinent to Americans over age of 65. Same as 153:144. |
| 174:200 Introduction to Health Care Organization and
Policy |
3 s.h. |
| Organization of U.S. health care system, health
policies that shape its development; historical, socioeconomic,
political, environmental forces that influence the organization,
financing, and delivery of personal and public health services;
health services, policy concepts, and terminology, including
health determinants, access to care, system integration, policy
development, federalism. Same as 173:280. |
| 174:201 Health Care Management |
3 s.h. |
| Application of basic management principles such
as leadership, goal setting, decision making, human resource
management, to health care organizations. Consent of instructor
required. |
| 174:202 Hospital Organization and Management |
3 s.h. |
| Role of hospitals, governance, organizational
structure, medical staff organization, departmental operations.
Prerequisites: 174:200 and 174:201 or consent of instructor. |
| 174:203 Strategic Planning and Marketing |
3 s.h. |
| Management, marketing. Prerequisite: 174:201 |
| 174:204 Quantitative Management in Health Care |
2-3 s.h. |
| Quantitative analysis techniques used by managers
in health care settings to assist with planning, decision making,
resource allocation. Consent of instructor required. |
| 174:205 Issues in Health Management and Policy |
3 s.h. |
| Integration and application of theories, concepts,
principles; case studies. Consent of instructor required. Prerequisite:
174:201 and consent of instructor. |
| 174:206 Leadership in Health Care Organizations |
2-3 s.h. |
| Management and leadership concepts and their application
in health care organizations. Prerequisite: 174:201 |
| 174:207 Group Practice and Ambulatory Care Administration |
3 s.h. |
| Delivery of ambulatory health care
services, for-profit, and not-for-profit organization; emphasis
on structures, payment mechanisms, compensation, effects of
managed care, other internal issues.. Prerequisites: 174:200,
174:201, 174:202; or consent of instructor. |
| 174:208 Health Services Information Systems |
2-3 s.h. |
| Conceptual, practical aspects of analysis, development,
and use of computer-based information systems; emphasis on application
to the health sciences environment. |
| 174:212 Health Economics I |
3 s.h. |
| Microeconomic principles applied to health care,
health insurance, information and uncertainty, models of physician
and hospital behavior, theory of the firm, market structure,
regulation, competitive reform, managed care. Consent of instructor
required. |
| 174:213 Health Economics II |
3 s.h. |
| Economic theory and its application to health
behavior, markets for health care and health insurance, public
policy related to health. Prerequisite: 174:212 or consent of
instructor. |
| 174:214 Financial Accounting for Health Care Organizations |
3 s.h. |
| Introduction to financial accounting practices
in health care delivery organizations. |
| 174:216 Financial Management of Health Institutions |
3 s.h. |
| Issues in working capital management, capital
financing, cost analysis and rate setting, budgeting, reimbursement,
managed care contracting and health reform initiatives; emphasis
on use of information from accounting, financial management
systems. Consent of instructor required. |
| 174:217 Health Insurance and Managed Care |
3 s.h. |
| History and theory of insurance; comparative health
systems, health systems and networks, HMOs, public health insurance,
care for uninsured; emphasis on public policy. Prerequisite:
174:212 or consent of instructor. Same as 152:217. |
| 174:218 Topics in Health Administration |
1-3 s.h. |
| Topics related to contemporary problems that concern
health care students, administrators. Repeatable. |
| 174:220 Advanced Topics in Managed Care |
3 s.h. |
| Skill development for managed care; risk management,
rate setting, contracting, equity evaluation, mergers and acquisitions,
regulatory issues; for advanced students. Prerequisite: 174:216
or consent of instructor. |
| 174:221 Evaluation and Outcomes in Health Care |
2 s.h. |
| Qualitative and quantitative methods for evaluating
health care quality, effectiveness; program evaluation, health
outcomes, clinical and cost effectiveness, evaluation across
health care delivery systems. Prerequisite: 174:102 or 174:200
and consent of instructor. |
| 174:223 Seminar in Health Care Ethics |
1 s.h. |
| Biomedical and organization ethics in the contemporary
heath care environment; ethical concepts and principles, ethical
issues that confront executive, clinical, and governance leaders
in context of complex health organizations. Consent of instructor
required. |
| 174:224 Human Resources for Health Organizations |
2-3 s.h. |
| Overview of human resource management theories
and practices regarding organization for health care; line and
staff perspectives on equal employment, staff, training and
development, appraisal, compensation. Prerequisite: 174:201
or consent of instructor. |
| 174:225 Project Management and Decision Modeling |
1-3 s.h. |
| Basic project management skills to ensure benefits from health care projects; quantitative decision modeling fro a scientific approach to decision making. Consent of instructor required. |
| 174:226 Health Informatics I |
3 s.h. |
| Technological tools that support health care administration,
management, and decision making. Same as 06K:225, 021:275, 050:283, 051:187,
056:186, 074:191, 096:283. |
| 174:228 Cost Effectiveness and Decision Analysis |
3 s.h. |
| Methods of cost-effectiveness analysis
and decision analysis; applications to resource allocation
decisions in public health and medicine. |
| 174:229 Lean Sigma Principles: Applications in Health Care |
1,3 s.h. |
| General lean and six sigma principles (1 s.h.); application to health care situations (3 s.h.); examples from University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, and other institutions. |
| 174:234 Administrative Internship |
arr. |
| |
| 174:235 Administrative Residency/Fellowship |
arr. |
| |
| 174:236 Administrative Practicum |
3 s.h. |
| Experience with operational and planning matters
in a health care setting. Second-year standing required. Prerequisite:
g.p.a. of at least 3.00 for two consecutive semesters. |
| 174:237 Legal Aspects of Health and Medical Care |
3 s.h. |
| Statutory, common law frameworks applicable to
health care system; court decisions that illustrate applications
of general legal doctrines in hospital, health settings. Consent
of instructor required. |
| 174:242 Federalism and Health Policy |
3 s.h. |
| How American government’s organization shapes
development and implementation of health policy, programs, services. |
| 174:243 Introduction to Health Policy |
1-3 s.h. |
| Policy process, policies and programs that shape
provision of health care in the United States; health policies
such as Medicare, Medicaid, Older Americans Act. |
| 174:245 Seminar in Health Policy |
3 s.h. |
| Contemporary health
policy issues; theoretical and applied perspectives;social justice and health care for vulnerable populations (eg. mental health, nursing homes); readings, discussions. |
| 174:247 Nonprofit Organizational Effectiveness I |
3 s.h. |
Operational and financing aspects of nonprofit
management; mission and governance of organization; strategic
planning for effective management, including finance, budget,
income generation, fund raising.
Same as 06J:247, 021:263, 024:247, 028:257, 032:227, 042:247, 091:320. |
| 174:248 Nonprofit Organizational Effectiveness II |
3 s.h. |
| Qualities for leadership of non profit organizations,
including relationships with staff and volunteers; relationship
of nonprofits to outside world; marketing, public relations,
advocacy strategies for nonprofits. Prerequisite: 06J:247 or
024:247 or 174:247. Same as 06J:248, 021:265, 024:248, 028:258,
032:228, 042:248, 091:322. |
| 174:252 Advanced Organizational Behavior in Health
Care |
3 s.h. |
| Key concepts of organizational behavior and their application to health organizations; theoretical writings, empirical studies. Prerequisites:
PhD standing, knowledge of human services organizaitons, and consent of instructor. |
| 174:253 Seminar: Health Systems Management |
arr. |
| Case studies highlighting management as the primary
integrative force in health organizations; major areas of executive
action in the development of policy, organization, planning,
information systems, control. |
| 174:254 Advanced Org Theory in Health Care |
3 s.h. |
| Key concepts and their application to health care
organizations and health services; perspectives from theoretical
writings, empirical studies. Consent of instructor required. |
| 174:255 Seminar in Contemporary Health Issues |
0 s.h. |
| Review of relevant literature on methodological
substantive issues in health care, presentations by researchers
on health services and policy research. Consent of instructor
required. |
| 174:257 PhD Guided Research |
1-3 s.h. |
| Experience with empirical research, guided by a faculty mentor; structured and supervised research activities. Consent of instructor required. |
| 174:259 Design Issues in Health Services Research |
3 s.h. |
| Design and causal inference reliability and validity in measurement; rules of evidence; research design for randomized-control trial, observation studies, meta-analysis. Prerequisite: graduate standing. |
| 174:260 PhD Independent Research |
1-3 s.h. |
| Experience in empirical research through one or
more substantive research experiences, with faculty mentor;
authorship or cosauthorship of atleast one manuscript suitable
for publication in peer review journal. Prerequisite: satisfactory
completion of PhD preliminary exams. |
| 174:261 Analytic Issues in Health Services Research
I |
3 s.h. |
| Analytic tools used in health services research; focus on applications in nonexperimental research settings, such as analyses using administrative claims data or preexisting public use data sets. Prerequisites: 171:162 and consent of instructor. Same as 046:261. |
| 174:262 Analytic Issues in Health Services Research
II |
3 s.h. |
| Continuation of 174:261; advanced applications, including panel data and qualitative response models. Prerequisite: 174:261 or consent of instructor. Same as 046:262. |
| 174:266 Advanced Case Management: An Interdisciplinary
Approach |
3 s.h. |
| Management of health care outcomes for cost, quality:
advanced topics in health care coordination, interdisciplinary
case management; managed care; financial, legal, ethical considerations;
outcomes of case management practice. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Same as 096:266. |
| 174:268 Health Care Utilization Outcomes |
3 s.h. |
| Research tools to assess changes in health care
use and cost as outcomes of treatment; evidence-based medicine,
meta analysis, decision trees, cost-of-illness analysis, cost
effectiveness models. Consent of instructor required. Same as
173:276. |
| 174:270 Seminar in Health Research & Instruction
|
1-3 s.h. |
| Opportunity for PhD students to develop research
and teaching skills through presentations, readings, workshops.
Prerequisite: satisfactory completion
of PhD preliminary exams. |
| 174:280 Independent Study and Research |
arr. |
| Supervised tutorial. Consent of instructor required. |
| 174:285 PhD Dissertation |
arr. |
| Research for preparation of dissertation; seminar
presentation. Consent of instructor required. |
