Programs by Campus
Indianapolis
Health Policy Management
Courses
- PBHL-H 501 U.S. Health Care: Systems, Policies, and Ethical Challenges (3 cr.) or P 504
This course addresses the study of health, illness and disease trajectories and the systemic components that mold the healthcare system. Ideological paradigms predicting utilization and health behaviors are addressed as are guidelines for ethical decision making/problem analysis. Formulation and implementation of organizational and governmental policies and their associate theoretical assumptions are addressed.
- PBHL-H 514 Health Economics (3 cr.) P: 3 cr. of undergraduate economics or permission of the instructor. This 3 hour course examines the principles and application of economic analysis in the health field and the economist’s approach to health care issues. Insights offered by economic analysis of specific health issues and problems are provided.
- PBHL-P 612 Health Outcomes Research (3 cr.) P: H517 and P651. This web-based course is evidence-based and focused on health outcomes research in contemporary health care. The different types of health outcomes assessment tools and their application in determining patient health status, changes in health status, and the effectiveness of health care interventions will be addressed. The course will focus on generic and specific health related outcomes assessment tools, looking at such issues as disease specific outcomes and patient satisfaction.
- PBHL-P 650 Readings in Public Health (1-4 cr.) This 3 hour variable topics course is used to offer students the opportunity to examine in-depth emergent topics in health policy and management. The topics will be approved by the health policy and management faculty and offered on as needed-basis.
- PBHL-P 652 Biostatistics for Public Health II (3 cr.) P: P651. This 3 hour course introduces the advanced principles and methods of data analysis in public health biostatistics. Emphasis is placed on public health examples as they relate to concepts such as: multiple regression, analysis of variance and covariance, logistic regression, nonparametric statistics, survival analysis, statistics used in epidemiology, and repeated measures analysis.
- PBHL-P 657 Application of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Public Health (3 cr.) P: P651 and P652. Cost-effectiveness analysis is widely used in evaluating the performance of public health programs and policies. In this course, students will learn to frame the conceptual model, to collect and synthesize data regarding “cost” and “effectiveness”, to perform a cost-effectiveness analysis, and to form recommendations based on the analysis.
- PBHL-H 521 Management Science for Health Administration (3 cr.) This course is an introductory survey of management science. Emphasis is placed on the formulating of managerial problems using models from management science. Readings, lectures, and structured exercises are used to present the models and demonstrate their application.
- PBHL-P 651 Biostatistics for Public Health I (3 cr.)
This course introduces the basic principles and methods of data analysis in public health biostatistics. Emphasis is placed on public health examples as they relate to concepts such as sampling, study design, descriptive statistics, probability, statistical distributions, estimation, hypothesis testing, chi-square tests, t-tests, analysis of variance, linear regression and correlation.
- PBHL-H 751 Doctoral Readings in Health Policy and Management (3 cr.) This course is designed to expose a Ph.D. student to published material on a specific topic or technique related to their field of study in Health Policy and Management. The material to be studied will be determined primarily by the student under the direction of a faculty member with input from the student's concentrtion advisor.
- PBHL-H 752 Doctoral Research in Health Policy and Management (3 cr.) This course is designed to allow Ph.D. students the opportunity to explore research questions by collecting data or using existing data related to their field of study in Health Policy and Management. The study topic will be determined primarily by the student under the direction of a faculty member with input from the student's concentrtion advisor.
- PBHL-H 775 Doctoral Research Seminar in Health Policy and Management (3 cr.) This course is designed to expose Ph.D. students to a wide range of specific research topics and issues in Public Health. The seminar topics will be chosen by the Director of the Ph.D. program with input from other faculty members.