HPE 270 — Global Context of Healthcare (2) (2,0)
This course provides a wide -ranging overview of healthcare systems. It combines historical perspective with analysis of current trends as it charts the evolution of modern health care, providing a complete examination of its organization and delivery while offering critical insight into the issues that the health systems face today. Important legislative, political, economic, organizational, and professional influences that transformed healthcare in the United States from a relatively simple professional service to the huge, complex, corporation-dominated industry will be explored and compared with countries with more demographically homogeneous populations. This course also examines issues of public health and U.S. spending on prevention efforts as compared with other countries as it recaps and summarizes selected topics in a future-oriented context. It outlines ongoing changes and tentatively forecasts future developments in institutional components and processes healthcare systems throughout the World. (1.1) Proficiency Credit Not Available Pass/No Credit Not Available.