WHO SHOULD APPLY

Public health practitioners, epidemiologists, exposure scientists, quantitative health geographers, risk assessors, students.

DURATION

5 Days

COURSE OBJECTIVES

On completion of this course you should be able to:

• Gain a wide knowledge of structure, organization, and financing of the health care system.
• Discuss the key principles, descriptions, and concrete examples included to make important issues interesting and understandable.
• Illustrate difficult concepts and demonstrate how they could be applied to real-world situations.
• Answer a comprehensive list of review questions reinforce what you have learned
• Discuss Short descriptions of patients, physicians, and other caregivers interacting with the health care system are based on past experiences.
• Understand how the healthcare system works and how you can succeed in it.
• Develop a clearer, more systematic way of thinking about health care in the United States, its problems, and the alternatives for managing and solving these problems.

COURSE CONTENT

·         Introduction: The paradox of excess and deprivation

·         Paying for Health Care

·         Access to Health Care

·         Reimbursing Health Care Providers

·         How Health Care is Organized:"Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Care"

·         How Health Care is Organized: "Health Delivery Systems"

·         The Health Care Workforce and the Education of Health Professionals

·         Painful versus Painless Cost Control

·         Mechanisms for Controlling Costs

·         Quality of Health Care

·         Long-Term Care

·         Medical Ethics and Rationing of Health Care