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2018-19 Graduate Catalog 
    
2018-19 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

PBH 510 Health Care Systems


Students are introduced to the U.S. health-care system from an organizational, political, service delivery perspective and health-care systems internationally. This course familiarizes students with basic information about how the health system works in America and stimulates critical thinking about how the system can be improved to meet the challenges of an aging society, rapid expansion of new technology, ever-growing costs of health-care services, and threats to health induced by poor behavioral choices such as diet, exercise and tobacco use. The goal of the course is to form a base of understanding about the dynamics of health and health care.