HLAD - 7108 Health Care Policy (3)

Provides students with theoretical tools required to understand local, state, and federal policies applying a high moral standard as outline in the American College of Healthcare Executives Code of Ethics. Examines policy process, policy analysis and its intersections with economic and political theory. Explores policy developments in healthcare including: healthcare reform, affirmative action, euthanasia, organ transplantation, stem-cell research, cloning, abortion, and new methods of reproduction are discussed from an ethical and political perspective. Instructional Method: LD Lecture-Discussion Offered Spring semester and Summer session. Prerequisite: Pre or corequisite: HLAD-7102.