Department of Health Services Management Courses

Health Services Management Courses Description

HSM 241   Health/Medical Care Delivery Systems

3 Credit Hour(s)

Undergraduate Course (not eligible for graduate credit)

HSM 635   PUBLIC HEALTH FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING

3 Credit Hour(s)

Introduces the use of management accounting techniques to decision making in health care organizations.  Lectures, problems and cases will be used to provide an opportunity to focus on the various types of health care providers.

CPH 650   MANAGEMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH ORGANIZATIONS 

3 Credit Hour(s)

This course teaches the theories and practice of administration as they are applied in public health settings.  It addresses knowledge and applications of the functions of public health management and their relationship to organizational effectiveness.  Prereq: enrollment in MPH program or consent of an instructor.

CPH 652   FINANCE MANAGEMENT FOR HEALTH CARE DELIVERY/PUBLIC HEALTH ORGANIZATION  

3 Credit Hour(s)

This course is an overview of financial practices in public health care organizations, including government, non-profit, insurance and direct providers. Prereq: Enrollment in a Public Health degree program or consent of instructor.

CPH 653   Public Health Law and Policy   

3 Credit Hour(s)

Introductory course for non-lawyers in selected aspects of the law relating to public health and policy.  Prereq: Enrollment in a Public Health degree program or consent of instructor.

CPH 662   PUBLIC HEALTH RESPONSE TO TERRORISM, DISASTERS AND EMERGENCIES 

3 Credit Hour(s)

This course will focus on the public health concepts, history, methods, planning and response preparedness to weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, natural and human-made disasters, and other health emergencies.  Prereq: enrollment in a Public Health degree program or consent of instructor.

CPH 663   PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE AND ADMINISTRATION   

3 Credit Hour(s)

This course is to be a practical application of the principles of health care organization to public health at the national, state and local levels. Prereq: enrollment in MPH program or consent of an instructor.

CPH 758   SPECIAL TOPICS IN HEALTH SERVICES MANAGEMENT

This course will engage students in readings, projects, lectures, and/or discussions to address current topics of special interest or concerns.  Prereq: enrollment in a Public Health degree program or consent of an instructor.

Quality Improvement in Healthcare (3)  This course introduces the concepts and systems principles, thinking, and dynamic complexity in healthcare organizations.

International Public Health (3) Course material and visiting speakers present and analyze major issues in international health, identify and compare health systems in developed and developing countries, and explore emerging global health issues.

Strategic Planning & Evidence-Based Decision Making (3) Topics include basic strategic planning theory, the process of strategic plan development, specific methods of analysis including environmental and organizational analysis and appropriate analytical techniques, decision theory and analysis.  Several health care trends such as restructuring, innovation in health care delivery and financing and performance measurements will be illustrated through case analysis in public health settings.

Leadership in Public Health (3) This course emphasizes the practical application of the theories and principles of leadership.  I addition to focusing on one’s personal leadership development, it also includes the integration of the concepts of servant and shared leadership for promoting change in public forums and decision-making arenas.  Case studies and interviews of public officials serve as a basis for working with today’s organizations and communities for the good of the public’s health.

Public Health Preparedness Planning (3) The Public Health Preparedness planning seminar will address issues of preparing for a variety of public health events, and how common planning activities can be used to prepare for a variety of unplanned events.  The course will include major incidents such as bioterrorism and pandemics, but will emphasize the more common occurrences that confront health providers and the communities they serve.  Specific tools such as contingency and multiple scenario planning, priority setting, surge capacity, interoperability, legal and ethical considerations, and emergency plans will be addressed, and field trips and tabletop exercises are anticipated.   

CPH 759   INDEPENDENT STUDIES IN HEALTH SERVICES MANAGEMENT  (subtitle required)

1-3 Credit Hour(s)   

Designed for advance students with research or special study interest in Health Services Management.  Students are under guidance and confer individually with faculty.  May be repeated to a maximum of 6 semester hours.  Prereq: Enrollment in a Public Health degree program or consent of an instructor. 

CPH 901   Public Health Doctoral Professional Colloquium

1 Credit Hour(s) 

The Public Health Doctoral Professional Colloquium is a one hour seminar course designed as the integrative introduction, consideration, and capstone for the Doctor of Public Health (Dr.P.H.) degree.  The colloquium is designed to link theory and practice, in the five public health core disciplines (epidemiology, environmental health, biostatistics, health enhancement, and management and practice). 

CPH 950  Well-Managed Public Health Care Organizations 

3 Credit Hour(s) 

Address effective senior management of public and private organizations focusing upon public health.  Effective management processes will be addressed through lectures, readings and case studies applying the concepts to public health organizations.

CPH 951   Professional Seminar in Public Health Management Practice

3 Credit Hour(s) 

An advanced course in one of the five content areas of public health.  All students enrolling will have completed the prerequisite introductory course at the master’s degree level, and the advance course at the doctoral level.  The Professional Seminar in Public Health Management and Practice is designed as the opportunity to link academic work in public health management with application in public health practice, and to prepare the student for a leadership role in public health.  This will be accomplished through readings, case studies and exercises, and individual research relevant to the discipline and the profession of public health.

CPH 952   Professional Seminar in Advanced Leadership: Theory and Practice

3 Credit Hour(s) 

This course provides the opportunity to link academic work in public health leadership with application in public health practice and to prepare the learner for a leadership role in public health.  This will be accomplished through readings, case studies, exercises, and individual research relevant to the disciplines of the profession of public health and leadership.

CPH 953  Seminar in Ethical and Moral Decision Making

3 Credit Hour(s)

This course provides the opportunity to link academic work in public health decision-making with its application to public health practice and to prepare the learner for the practice of public health decision-making based on ethical and moral principles.  This will be accomplished through readings, case studies, exercises, and individual research relevant to the disciplines of the profession of public health decision-making.  The period of Nazi Germany 1933-1945 will compose the underlying case study. The seminar will consider in depth the decisions made by Nazi political and military leaders, citizens, religious leaders, concentration camp commanders, guards, and prisoners, physicians, scientists and business leaders.  Films will be used extensively in the seminar.

CPH 954   Professional Seminar in Public health: Economics and Finance

3 Credit Hour(s)

This course provides the opportunity to link academic work in public health finance and economics with application in public health practice and to prepare the learner for key leadership roles in public health. This will be accomplished through readings, case studies, exercises, and individual research relevant to the disciplines of the profession of public health finance and economics.