Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health

Program E-mail: fsphinfo@iu.edu  

Departmental URL: fairbanks.indianapolis.iu.edu/academics/doctoral/minors/health-systems

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Doctoral Minor in Health Systems and Services Research

This minor provides a mix of substantive and methods courses in social science or related reference disciplines that are frequently drawn on by researchers who study health systems or health services.

The purpose of this minor is to provide PhD students with a new minor option that helps them develop conceptual and methodological depth in social science or related reference disciplines that are frequently drawn on by researchers who study health systems or health services, including economics, psychology, sociology, biostatistics, and communication studies.

Because these areas of study often employ related concepts and methods, this minor will allow students to take minor courses that cut across departments and programs while still provide depth in a non-major area of study.

Curriculum

Students will complete 12 credits by choosing from the list of substantive and methods courses.

Students complete one or two of the following substantive courses:

Economics

• ECON-E 581 Applied Microeconomics I
• ECON-E 582 Applied Microeconomics II
• ECON-E 521 Microeconomics Theory
• ECON-E 583 Applied Macroeconomics

Psychology

• PSY-572 Organizational Psychology
• PSY-570 Staffing
• PSY-I 647 Attitudes and Social Cognition

Sociology

• SOC-R 515 Sociology of Health and Illness
• SOC-R 556 Advanced Sociological Theory I
• SOC-R 557 Advanced Sociological Theory II
• SOC-R 585 Social Aspects of Mental Health and Mental Illness
• SOC-R 560 Topics in Sociology

Communication Studies

• COMM-C 500 Advanced Communication Theory
• COMM-C 592 Advanced Health Communication
• COMM-C 528 Group Communication and Organizations

Students complete two or three of the following methods courses:

Econometric Methods

• ECON-E 570 Econometrics
• ECON-E 574 Times Series and Forecasting

Psychology Methods

• PSY-60800 Measurement Theory and the Interpretation of Data
• PSY-I 643 Field Methods and Experimentation
• PSY-I 583 Judgment and Decision Making in Organizations

Biostatistics and Epidemiology Methods

• PBHL-B 552 Fundamentals of Data Management
• PBHL-B 571 Biostatistics Method I-Linear Model in Public Health (3 cr)
• PBHL-B 572 Biostatistics Method II-Categorical Data Analysis (3 cr)
• PBHL-B 573 Biostatistics Method III-Applied Survival Data Analysis (3 cr)
• PBHL-B 574 Biostatistics Method IV-Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis (3 cr)
• PBHL-B 581 Biostatistics Computing
• PBHL-B 582 Introduction to Clinical Trials
• PBHL-B 585 Analysis and Interpretation of Observational Studies
• PBHL-E 715 Design and Implementation of Observational Studies

Other Social Science Methods

• OLS-53010 Mixed Methods Research
• PBHL-E 563 Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis in Health Sciences