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Graduate Health Policy Certificate
Course Descriptions
Core Courses (any 2 courses)
ECON 215S: Research Seminar (SS)
Description: Individual research in a field of special interest that culminates in a substantive research project containing significant analysis and interpretation of a previously approved topic. Students to meet individually and on regular basis with supervising professor and in weekly group seminar to present and discuss research. (Similar to Economics 115S, but requires additional assignment.) Consent of instructor and director of undergraduate studies required.
Recent Syllabi: None available
Prerequisite: Economics 105D or 149; and Economics 110D or 154.
Credits: One course.
Instructor: Staff
Description: Survey course designed for students considering Ph.D. research in health economics. Topics will include demand for health insurance, moral hazard, health as an investment, technological change, the principal-agent problem, occupational entry, and the supply of physician services. Typically offered every Spring.
Recent Syllabi: Fall 2004
Prerequisites: Economics 243 and 301.
Credits: 3 units
Instructor: Sloan
ECON 357: Seminar in Health Economics
Description: Conceptual and empirical analysis of demand for health, medical services, and insurance; decisions by physicians and hospitals about price, quantity, and quality of services; technological change; and structure and performance of the pharmaceutical industry. This seminar is only open to PhD students in economics.
Recent Syllabi: None available
Prerequisites: Economics 243 and 301
Credits: 3 units
Instructor: Sloan
Description: This course provides students with the tools to effectively address the emerging issues in the health care industry. The focus is specifically on health care economics and finance, and uses prominent health sector organizations as real-world models. The course provides the basis for second-year electives.
Recent syllabi: Term IV 2004
Prerequisites:
Credits: 3 units
Instructor: Khwaja
HLTHMGMT 408: Management of Health Systems and Policy*
Description: Examines special aspects of health care law, financing, and health care policy. The provision of health care in the United States exists within a unique and complex environment. State and federal governments, through laws, programs, reimbursements, and payments, create a special environment for health care providers. Similarly, third-party insurers, and more recently, corporations, are taking active steps in modifying this environment. Good candidates for this course are MBA students who have an interest in health, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and human resource management.
Recent syllabi: Term III 2004
Prerequisites: None
Credits: 3 units
Instructor: Schulman
LAW 347: Health Care Law and Policy***
Description: Surveys the legal environment of the health services industry in a policy perspective; attention to the tensions and trade-offs between quality and cost concerns. Topics include access to health care; private and public programs for financing and purchasing health services; economics of health care and health care costs; role of professionalism versus the new commercialism in health care; legal and tax treatment of not-for-profit corporations; regulation of commercial practice in professional fields; fraud and abuse in government programs; application of antitrust law in professional fields; internal organization and legal liabilities of hospitals; and public regulation of institutional providers.
Recent Syllabi: Fall 2004
Prerequisites: None
Credits: 3 units
Instructor: Havighurst
PUBPOL 253 and POLSCI 249: The Politics of Health Care(SS)
Description: The history, status and future of health care policy. Grounded in political theories such as distributive justice, altruism, and contractarianism. Focus on policy formation. Case discussions of American reform controversies in light of international experience. Offered every other Fall. None
Recent Syllabi: Fall 2003
C-L: Political Science 249
Credits: One course
Instructor: Conover
Description: Basic development of cost benefit analysis from alternative points of view, for example, equity debt, and economy as a whole. Techniques include: construction of cash flows, alternative investment rules, inflation adjustments, optimal timing and duration of projects, private and social pricing. Adjustments for economic distortions, foreign exchange adjustments, risk and income distribution examined in the context of present value rules. Examples and cases from both developed and developing countries.
Recent Syllabi: Fall 2004
C-L: Economics 261 and Environment 272
Credits: One course
Instructor: Conrad
Description: Focus on prevention of diseases and health problems; funding, policy, and management decision making. Overview of public health interventions and outcomes in United States, Europe, and less industrialized nations. Emphasis on understanding the social construction of race and ethnicity and the impact of socioeconomic variables such as race, ethnicity, gender, income and education on health. Public health perspective applied to such topics as: HIV/AIDS; teen pregnancy; cocaine use during pregnancy; infant mortality and low birth weight; violence; major causes of mortality in less industrialized countries; and role of public health in state and national health reform. Offered every Fall.
Recent Syllabi: Fall 2003
Prerequisites: None
Credits: One course
Instructor: Whetten
Description: Focus on how to get acceptable value for the money put into the health care system. Will examine: the ways health care "benefits" and "costs" are measured; ways that the decision making tools of cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis can be applied to guide the setting of priorities; the ethical implications, and the policical constraints, bearing on the application of these decision aids. To what extent and in what ways are public agencies and private industry using these approaches to allocate resources. Will draw from the perspectives of many disciplines.
Recent Syllabi: None available
Prerequisites: None
Credits: One course
Instructor: Vigdor
Description: This course examines current health sector policies and reform in lower income countries. The World Bank is leading a global effort to reform health sector infra-structures. We explore the forces driving these policies, reform strategies and the role of donors and governments in health policy. Students will gain an understanding of international health policy theory and how health systems are structured. Applying inter-disciplinary theory and tools, we examine the economic, epidemiological and political forces currently driving international reform and analyze their impact on the health sector. We examine the relative influence of key donor organizations such as the World Bank, World Health Organization, USAID and UNICEF as well as the role of non-government organizations and governments. We critically examine financing, pharmaceutical and organizational policy reform initiatives focusing on issues impacting sustainable health development. The course will be evidence based, seeking to distill lessons learned and best practices from countries which have initiated bold health sector reforms.
Recent Syllabi: Fall 2003
Prerequisites: None
Credits: One course
Instructor: Martin-Staple
Description: This course examines the role of social factors in the onset of illness, the course of illness, and in receipt and quality of health care. Attention is given to physical illness, mental illness, and mortality. Social factors examined include age, sex, race, socioeconomic status, stress, and social relationships. This course demonstrates that health and illness are strongly linked to social characteristics and the social environments in which people live.
Recent Syllabi: None available
Prerequisites: None
Credits: One course
Instructor: George
Description: This course provides an overview of (1) the historical evolution of the American health care industry, (2) of recent political controversies attached to public policies trained on reconstructing the fiscal and organizational bases of health care delivery, (3) of the ongoing reorganization of health insurance and health services markets in the U.S., and (4) of various predictions for the future of health care financing and organization. Currently unscheduled.
Recent Syllabi: None available
Prerequisites: None
Credits: One course
Instructor: Staff
PHYSASST 450: Introduction to Health Care Policy
Description: An introduction to health care policy using U.S. and international examples as appropriate. A lecture series taught by an interdisciplinary faculty and by community experts in health care policy and organization. Topics include major determinants of health and disparities, how health care is organized, delivered and financed in the U.S., health law and regulation, international comparisons, major issues related to access, costs and quality and future trends.
Recent Syllabi:
Prerequisites: None
Credits: One course
Instructor: Varied
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Elective Courses (any 2 courses)****
Description: The historical development of the medical profession in the united States with attention to such topics as the changing basis of authority for medical practice, the education of physicians, the impact of science and technology on health care, physician-patient relations, the organization of the profession as a whole and by specialty, the emergence of the hospital, the role of government in health care delivery and contemporary criticisms of the health care system. The history of the Duke University Medical Center provides a recapitulation of course themes. Last offered Fall 2001.
Recent Syllabi: None available
Credits: Additional units of credit may be earned through independent study. Weight: 1
Instructor: Staff
Description: This seminar examines ethical questions raised by modern biomedical science and technology with special attention to their implications for primary care practitioners. It offers both historical and systematic analysis and attends to models of physician-patient relationships. Among topics for consideration are ethical method (resource allocation, justice, and public policy), medical beneficence, and concepts of rights together with selected practice-related issues (e.g., truth-telling, confidentiality, abortion, contraception, consent, definition and meaning of death, behavior modification).
Recent Syllabi: None available
Credits: If permitted by the instructor, this clinical science course can be audited. Weight: 1 Min: 2 Max: 10 H
Instructor: Staff
CFM 258C: Legal Issues in Medicine
Description: A seminar which introduces participants to the basic approach to law and legal process to contemporary issues in medical care including malpractice, hospital privileges, confidentiality, natural death, abortion, consent/authorization for treatment, human experimentation, and peer review. Topics may be chosen by individual students. Common misconceptions about malpractice law and the rights of physicians and the rights of physicians and patients as well as the legal mechanisms for resolving disputes are examined including the role of expert witnesses.
Recent Syllabi: None available
Credits: If permitted by the instructor, this clinical science course can be audited. Weight: 2 Min: 5 Max: 20
Instructor: Staff
XTIANETH 130: Dying and Death
Description: Critical consideration of biblical, legal, medical, and ethical perspectives.
Recent Syllabi: None available
Prerequisite: New Testament 18, Old Testament 11, or equivalents.
Credits: One course
Instructor: Staff
Description: General principles and issues in clinical research design. Formulating the research objective and the research hypothesis; specifying the study population, the experimental unit and the response variable(s). Classification of studies as experimental or observational, prospective or retrospective, case- control, cross-sectional, or cohort; their relative advantages and limitations and the statistical methods used in their analysis. Emphasis is placed on the traditional topics of clinical epidemiology such as disease etiology, causation, natural history, diagnostic testing, and the evaluation of treatment efficacy.
Recent Syllabi: Fall 2004
Prerequisites: CRP 241B
Credits: 4
Instructor: Edelman
ECON 372: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
Description: The application of economic concepts to private- and public- and private sector decision making concerning natural and environmental resources. Topics include modeling externalities and public goods, design of policy instruments, management of renewable and nonrenewable resources, welfare theory and valuation methods, and environmental risk. Currently unscheduled.
Recent Syllabi: None available
Prerequisites: Economics 301 and 302 or consent of instructor.
C-L: Environment 372, Environment 373
Credits: 3 units
Instructor: Staff
Description: The application of economic concepts to private- and public-sector decision making concerning natural and environmental resources. Intertemporal resource allocation, benefit-cost analysis, valuation of environmental goods and policy concepts. Includes laboratory.
Recent Syllabi: Fall 2004
Prerequisites: Introductory course in microeconomics
C-L: Economics 270L and Public Policy Studies 272L
Credits: 4 units
Instructor: Bennear
ENVIRON 271: Economic Analysis of Resource and Environmental Policies
Description: Case and applications oriented course examining current environmental and resource policy issues. Benefits and costs of policies related to sustaining resource productivity and maintaining environmental quality will be analyzed using economic and econometric methods. Topics include benefit-cost analysis, intergenerational equity, externalities, public goods, and property rights.
Recent Syllabi: Fall 2003
Prerequisites: Environment 270L or equivalent; Economics 149 recommended
Credits: 3 units
C-L: Economics 272
Instructor: Kramer
ENVIRON 274: Resource and Environmental Policy
Description: Development of a policy analysis framework for studying resource and environmental policy. Political institutions, interest group theory, public choice theory, role of economics in policy analysis, ethics and values. Application to the current and historical U.S. policy issues.
Recent Syllabi: Spring 2004
Prerequisites: Environment 270L, PPS 272, or consent of instructor
C-L: Public Policy Studies 274
Credits: 3 units
Instructor: Weinthal
ENVIRON 343: Hazard, Management, Law and Ethics
Description: Economics and ecology; survey of federal and state laws; legal basis for regulation; enforcement, including inspections and audits, permits and licensing, and citations, injunctions and penalties; management accountability; ethics in science and medicine; risk assessment and management; policy development and implementation.
Recent Syllabi: None available
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor required.
Credits: 3 units
Instructor: Warren
Description: Bayesian decision theory, including probability, subjective probability, utility theory, value of sample information, and multiattribute problems. Applications of decision theory in resource and environmental policy making. Ecological risk assessment, including case studies.
Recent Syllabi: Spring 2004
Prerequisite: Environment 251 or equivalent.
Credits: 3 units
Instructor: Maguire
Description: Held immediately preceding general Fuqua orientation. Every August. The course provides a detailed overview of the structure and underpinnings of the health care system. This includes the thorough examination of health policy, the pharmaceutical and device manufacturing industries, IT, globalization, consumerism, payers and providers and health care entrepreneurship.. While this course is designed primarily for incoming first year students, there is nothing to preclude a student from entering the program in year two and taking the course the summer before.
Recent Syllabi: None available
Prerequisites: None
Credits: One course
Instructor: Mendelson
Description: This course is designed to provide a solid foundation in the role and strategic uses of information technology (IT) within the health care industry. The course provides sufficient technical depth to support students seeking to develop as a general manager or consultant within the health care industry without requiring an extensive background in IT to benefit from the material. The course also emphasizes an integrated perspective of information technology by establishing linkages with material presented in the core MBA courses of marketing, finance, and operations management. The course will draw on IT examples from across the health care industry, including providers, payers, medical device manufacturers, and pharmaceutical companies. Classes will combine case discussion with instructor-led presentation of core course concepts. We will emphasize practical application while providing relevant linkages to current theory and with an eye towards future developments.
Course Website: http://faculty.fuqua.duke.edu/courses/mba/2003-2004/term3/hlthmgmt491/
Prerequisites: None
Credits: Three Credits
Instructor: William Hammond
HLTHMGMT 491.401: Biotech: Management of Drug Discovery
Description: Biotechnology has raised profound business and ethical questions since the inception of the field. The focus of this course will be to bring the students through an overview of this industry from many different perspectives: scientific, clinical, legal, financial, and ethical. This course will be a seminar with each class led by experts in these core disciplines. This course will be offered every Fuqua term IV.
Recent syllabi: Term IV 2004
Prerequisite: None
Credits: One course
Instructor: Schulman
HISTORY 279: Health, Healing & History. (CZ)
Description: The development of medicine within the broader cultural context from prehistory to the twentieth century.
Recent Syllabi: None available
Prerequisites: None
Credits: One course each
Instructor: English
IND 300C, LAW 580: Seminar in Medical-Legal-Ethical Issues
Description: A seminar composed of students and faculty from the Medical, Law, and Divinity Schools that will critically consider selected pertinent issues of mutual professional interest.
Recent Syllabi: None available
Prerequisites: None
Credits: 2 units
Instructor: Gianturco (Medical), Shimm (Law), Smith (Divinity), and other faculty members from all three schools
IND 302C: Exploring Medicine
Description: The purpose of this course is to promote understanding of the cultural background that frames how the practice of medicine can benefit the people of Latin America -- particularly Honduras. The course content is designed to understand how art, political history, literature, music, and religion impact the medical lives of people in a foreign country. The seminar will facilitate understanding the meaning of medicine for the student in a different culture and the need to modify what and how medical issues are treated. The classes will be given by a multidisciplinary faculty. A trip to Honduras is planned for the spring with a limited number of students invited. They will meet Honduran students and faculty as well as offer medical care to patients during the visit. Spanish is not required but recommended. The course will be held as ten (10) two hour seminars with the trip to Honduras as an optional laboratory experience. Medical Spanish is part of the instruction.
Recent Syllabi: None available
Prerequisites: None
Credits: Weight: 2 Max: 12 Min: 6
Instructor: Clements
LAW 235: Environmental Law***
Description: A basic examination of the rapidly growing body of law concerned with interrelationships between human activities and the larger environment. Rationales for environmental protection; risk assessment and priorities; roles of markets and governments, choice of legal approaches to risk management; roles of different branches and levels of government, and of nongovernmental actors; interplay of scientific, economic, social and other factors in development and consequences of environmental law. Analysis of common law and statutory regimes for air, water, hazardous waste and toxics, resource use, and biodiversity and ecosystems. Focus on U.S. legal system with some illustrations from foreign, international, and global contexts.
Recent Syllabi: Fall 2004
Prerequisites: None
Credits: 3 units
Instructor: Salzman
LAW 301: AIDS and the Law***
Description: The course will cover the substantive law issues raised by clients with HIV/AIDS. The course is strongly recommended but not required for those intending to enroll in the AIDS Legal Assistance Project, but is open to students who do not intend to take the AIDS Clinic course. The course may be taken concurrently with the AIDS Clinic course. The course will employ a multi-disciplinary approach to teaching about the legal problems faced by persons with HIV disease and will involve collaboration with medical specialists, marketing specialists, social workers, and clients. Topics covered will include estate planning issues, AIDS pharmaceuticals, public benefits, health care issues, permanency planning for children and other family law issues, insurance and employee benefit issues, public health issues, employment issues, housing and employment discrimination, torts and HIV-related private lawsuits, and criminal law issues.
Recent Syllabi: Fall 2004
Prerequisites: None
Credits: 2 units
Instructor: McAllaster
LAW 341: Food and Drug Law***
Description: This course is an introduction to basic principles of food and drug laws and an examination of how significant doctrines of constitutional, administrative, and criminal law have been elaborated and applied in the food and drug context. The United States Food and Drug Administration has a pervasive role in American society: it is often said that the agency regulates products accounting for twenty-five cents of every dollar spent by consumers. Exploration of the complex interplay of legal, ethical, policy, scientific, and political considerations that underlie the FDA's regulatory authority, its policy-making, and its enforcement activity.
Course Homepage: http://www.law.duke.edu/curriculum/coursesFrame.html
Prerequisites: None
Credits: 3 units
Instructor: Staff
LAW 396: Genomics and the Law
Description: This course will address the principal U.S. and international legal implications of the new field of human genomics and of the related genetic technologies. In particular, we will examine how these scientific developments challenge the law and policy that governs intellectual property, privacy, discrimination, criminal prosecutions, reproductive rights including the matter of eugenics and its implications for genetic enhancement technology, and family structures. The course will include some presentations by guest lecturers from the relevant scientific fields, as well as field visits to related research and development sites. Students will be required to make one in-class presentation based on a short paper -- depending upon class size, this will be done a part of a small team -- and to take one final examination.
Course Homepage: None available
Prerequisites: None
Credits: 3 units
Instructor: Coleman
LAW 555: International Environmental Law (Seminar)***
Description: This course provides a general introduction to international environmental law and policy. After reviewing the rise of the international environment agenda, the course concentrates on legal and policy responses to global-scale environmental challenges, including deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change, ozone depletion, hazardous substances, and the loss of living marine resources. The emerging framework of global environmental governance is surveyed and critically evaluated. The course focuses principally on the dynamic of treaties, negotiations, and non-state actors, and much less on domestic legislation.
Course Homepage: http://www.law.duke.edu/curriculum/coursesFrame.html
Prerequisites: None
Credits: One course. 2 units.
Instructor: Salzman
LAW 705: Bioethics
Description: This seminar will examine the complex ethical and legal issues that arise in medical care and research, particularly issues arising from advances in biomedical technology. We will look at a variety of bioethical concerns in three general medical contexts: clinical care, medical research, and genetic science. The seminar will conclude with a look at critiques of the current bioethics model, and a discussion of health and human rights.
Spring 2003 Homepage: http://www.law.duke.edu/curriculum/courseHomepages/Spring2003/705_01/
Prerequisites: None
Credits: Two Units
Instructor: Dame
LS 290.30: Adult Development and Aging
Description: The purpose of this course it to describe and discuss the adult life course beginning with the transition to adulthood and continuing through old age and death. The course is divided into three sections. Part 1 includes an examination of the age structures of developed and developing nations. In particular, it focuses in the meaning of an aging population for the future of the United States. Part 2 reviews social, psychological, and social psychological aspects of the human life course from the transition of adulthood through middle age. Part 3 concentrates on later life, again viewing changes from social (retirement, widowhood) and psychological (ego integrity, wisdom, life review) perspectives.
Recent Syllabi: 2004
Prerequisites: None
Credits: one course
Instructor: Gold
LS 290.45: Health Care, Narrative, and Social Theory
Description: Explores the boundaries between technology and the natural world, and bioethical quandaries that arise with advanced medical technology. The course will oscillate between two different viewpoints about health care. First, the way that ethicists and social theorists identify and solve contemporary dilemmas will be examined. Works will be read dealing with death and dying, depression, the role of the family in providing health care, AIDS, cancer, etc. These dilemmas will also be explored from a narrative point of view, using both memoirs and fiction to understand the way that people use stories to make sense of these illnesses and deaths. The presupposition underpinning this class is that illness is not a self-evident condition, but can only be reckoned with through the telling of a story. The goal of the class is to integrate reasoned debate and story-telling into a more comprehensive way of understanding health and illness.
Recent Syllabi: 2001
Prerequisites: None
Credits: 2 units
Instructor: Rudy
LS 290.52: Madness and Society
Description: The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the issues concerning the history of the treatment of the mentally ill in the western world. Concentrating on the period between the French Revolution and the Second World War, we will analyze in a comparative context the situation in Europe, America and, to a lesser extent, Russia. One of the main components of the course will be an examination of social and professional attitudes toward the mentally ill. To understand the images of mental illness common to these societies, we will study evidence from the most influential sources artistic painting, medical photography and journalistic reportage. We will also focus on the "healers," investigating the origins of the modern hospital system and the rise of the psychiatric profession. And we will examine the explanatory theories behind the diagnostic classifications of disorders, and the various treatments utilized to relieve the symptoms of distress. Oferred every two years in the Fall.
Recent Syllabi: Fall
Prerequisites: None
Credits: one course
Instructor: Miller
LS 290.54: Aging and Health
Description: The purpose of this course is to describe the multidimensional issues that surround issues of health and aging in society. In this context, students will be exposed to a variety of disciplinary approaches to the study of aging and health. Section one of this course will establish the basic knowledge neccessary to understand this complex topic. Section two will examine the sociological perspective on health and aging as they affect society. Section three will review the problems surrounding long-term care in this country. Section four will address the social psychological perspective on how health affects the aging individual today. The final section will concentrate on the psychosocial and ethical issues surrounding the end of life.
Recent Syllabi: 2003
Prerequisites: none
Credits: one course
Instructor: Gold
LS 290.57: Death and Dying
Description: This course can stand alone as the study of the psychological, social, economic, and biomedical aspects of death and dying; it is also the logical conclusion to two previous aging courses that have been offered through MALS (Adulthood and Aging, Aging and Health). The purpose of this course is to examine multiple perspectives on death and dying that occur widely in American society. We will also examine how various other societies manage and view death. Section one will establish the basic knowledge neccessary to understand this complex topic. Section two will examine the social and cultural perspective on death and dying as they affect American society. Section three will focus on multicultural issues and the ways in which different religions conceptualize and practice their dogma on death and dying. Section four will take a social psychological perspective on death and dying.
Recent Syllabi: 2002
Prerequisites: none
Credits: one course
Instructor: Gold
NURSING 303: Health Services Program Planning and Outcomes Analysis
Description: Survey of key concepts that form the bases for understanding health care institutions and the environment in which they exist. Current issues affecting health care institutions within the context of the financial and political systems will be analyzed in relation to their impact on advanced nursing practice. Steps to prepare the advanced practice nurse to negotiate an independent contract will be introduced. Offered in the summer.
Recent Syllabi: Summer 2004
Prerequisites: None
Credits: 3 units
Instructor: Hill
NURSING 362: Ethics in Nursing
Description: Focuses on the historical development of ethics in nursing, analysis of moral language, codes of ethics, frameworks for ethical decision making with case analysis, and strategies for discussion of ethics in nursing. Spring or summer. Currently unscheduled.
Recent Syllabi: None available
Prerequisites: None
Credits: 3 units
Instructor: Staff
NURSING 480: Social Issues, Health, and Illness in the Aged Years
Description: This seminar examines diversity in development and influences of environmental, social, psychological, and biological changes on health and function in the later years.
Topics include theories of aging, demographic trends, role of family, financing and organization of health care in later life, ethnic/minority health care patterns, ethical issues, loss, and maintaining personal autonomy through the life course. Offered online in the Fall.
Recent Syllabi: Fall 2004
Prerequisites: Interest in Gerontology
Credits: 3 units
Instructor: Corazzini
PHY ASST 250: Health Systems Organization
Description: An introduction to the structure and administrative principles in use in health care organizations. A lecture series taught by an interdisciplinary faculty and by community experts in health care organization. Topics include the patient as consumer, third-party payment, public policy trends, and organizational behavior. Offered every first Summer session.
Recent Syllabi: None available
Prerequisites: None
Credits: 2 credits
Instructor: Strand
POLSCI 176A & B: Perspectives on Food and Hunger. (B). (SS)
Description: Analysis of hunger problems in the United States and Third World countries. Focus on role of governments, nongovernmental organizations, and international agencies. Weekly lectures, discussion meetings, and community internship project. See C-L: Interdisciplinary Course 120A; also C-L: Comparative Area Studies. Currently unscheduled.
Recent Syllabi: None available
Prerequisites: None
Credits: One course
Instructor: Staff
Description: Focus on activities that traditinally have been defined as vices (including drinking, smoking, use of opiates, gambling, pronography, prostitution) and the problem of regulating and controlling them in a free sociaety. Evalution of social costs and benefits of various alternatives policy interventions.
Recent Syllabi: Fall 2002
Prerequisite: Economics 149 or Public Policy Studies 110
C-L: Economics 251S
Credits: One Course
Instructor: Cook
PUBPOL 264.05: Policy Challenges of the New Demography. (SS)
Description: This course explores the demographic situation in contemporary industrialized countries and discusses the determinants as well as the challenges and problems related to low fertility, low mortality and high migration. In most industrialized countries, fertility has fallen far below replacement level. At present, there are fourteen lowest-low fertility countries with a period total fertility rate of under 1.3 and this group is likely to expand in the next decade. There is no sign of a trend reversal. At the same time, life expectancy has increased and old-age mortality has fallen remarkably. One consequence of continuing mortality improvements at old ages is the emerging number of individuals enjoying exceptional long lives of 100 and more years. In addition, most industrialized countries experience high in-migration, which ultimately could be considered as one possibility to stop population aging but also raises public fears.
Recent Syllabi: None available
Prerequisites: None
Credits: Two units
Instructor: Staff
PUBPOL 264S.30: Health Care Policy in Developing Countries. (SS)
Description: This course examines current health sector and development policies and reform in lower income countries. The World Bank is leading a global effort to reform health sector infra-structures. We explore the forces driving these policies, reform strategies and the role of donors and governments in setting health policy. Students will gain an understanding of international health policy theory and how health systems are structured. Applying inter-disciplinary theory and tools, we examine the economic, epidemiological and political forces currently driving international reform and analyze their impact on the health sector. We examine the relative influence of key donor organizations such as the World Bank, World Health Organization, USAID and UNICEF as well as the role of non-government organizations and governments. We critically examine financing, pharmaceutical, logistic and organizational policy reform initiatives focusing on issues impacting sustainable health development. The course will be evidence based, seeking to distill lessons learned and best practices from countries which have initiated bold health sector reforms.
Recent Syllabi: None available
Prerequisites: Experience or background in health care in developing countries
Credits: One course
Instructor: Martin-Staple
Description: Globalization describes how goods, services, culture and ideas cross borders, and more specifically in the context of health, how disease-causing pathogens, the knowledge to care and cure these maladies, and the products to treat them do or do not cross these borders. Health inequities may result when there are asymmetries in what becomes globalized. In one case, the product—tobacco—readily crosses borders, but consumer protections lag behind. In another, expectations of life-saving treatment readily cross borders (e.g., AIDS, TB, malaria, etc.), but access to the essential drugs lag behind. Do the forces of globalization promise all peoples a fair shake for a healthy future or just a future of widening health disparity?
Prerequisites: None
Recent Syllabi: None available
Credits: One course
Instructor: Staff
Description: This course focuses on various issues in bioethics: abortion, surrogate motherhood, physician-assisted suicide and so forth.
Prerequisites: No prerequisites, but students who have taken PPS116 or Constitutional Rights with Professor Hudson will probably find this course rather repetitive.
Recent Syllabi: None available
Credits: One course
Instructor: Staff
Description: A comprehensive review and assessment of alcohol policy at the national, state, and local (including campus) level, making use of the scholarly literature.
Topics include:
The short- and long-term consequences of drinking
History of tax and control
The Alcoholism perspective
The demand for alcohol
Evidence on the effects of alcohol control measures
Cost-benefit analysis of alternative measures
Prerequisites: Basic microeconomics and statistics
Recent Syllabi: None available
Credits: One course
Instructor: Cook
PUBPOL 264S.65: Responsible Genomics. (SS)
Description: Introduction to ethical reasoning and examination of some major ethical opportunities and challenges that arise from genomics and bioinformatics research. Ethical issues to be covered include protection of the privacy, autonomy, and well-being of research subjects, considerations of justice and fairness in the selection of research topics and in the distribution of the costs and benefits of genomics research and its applications, and the potential positive and negative consequences of genetic research and technologies on individuals, families, and communities. Understanding of the broader historical and social context of biomedical research. Understanding of legal and policy issues that pertain to biomedical research, including sources of funding, intellectual property, conflict of interest, and public-private R&D interactions.
Prerequisites: Some familiarity with genomics, bioinformatics, or both; interest in implications of genomics and bioinformatics.
Recent Syllabi:
Credits: One course
Instructor: Cook-Deegan
PUBPOL 264S.68: Poverty, Inequality and Health. (SS)
Description: This seminar examines the impact of poverty and socioeconomic inequality, more generally, on the health of individuals and populations. Attention will be given to both US and non-US populations. Topics covered include the conceptualization and measurement of poverty and socioeconomic inequality at the individual and population level; socioeconomic gradients in health; globalization and health; socioeconomic deprivation across the life-course and health in adulthood; and the adequacy of public policy responses in the US and elsewhere to growing health inequities in the age of globalization.
Prerequisites: None
Recent Syllabi: None availalbe
Credits: One course
Instructor: James
PUBPOL 264.70: Social Policy Implementation. (SS)
Description: This course is on the formation, development, and implementation of social policies in the United States. An implementation paradigm, focusing on pre-implementation, ongoing implementation, and post-implementation issues and strategies, is introduced. Students are expected to understand the close relationship between policy development and implementation, and learn change strategies in a variety of organizational roles. Consulting technology will be added to the 1998 curriculum.
Recent Syllabi: None available
Prerequisites: None
Credits: Two units
Instructor: Staff
PUBPOL 350: Social Policy. (SS)
Description: An examination of social and health policies in advanced industrial countries. Focus on understanding the comparative methods and role of the state, market, and voluntary sector in policy development and implementation.
Recent Syllabi: Fall 2004
C-L: Comparative Area Studies and Political Science 266
Credits: One course
Instructor: Darity
PUBPOL 326H: Designing Human Resources Development Programs. (SS)
Description: This seminar focuses on both the substantive and the institutional aspects of the development, utilization, and preservation of human resources. In particular, it deals with (a) strategies for improving people's health and capacity for benefiting from education and training; (b) education and training policies and strategies, including financing and service delivery; (c) employment generation, skill utilization and capacity preservation. The seminar will look at human resource development (HRD) from the viewpoint of a Senior Government Official, say in a Ministry of Planning or Finance, responsible for overseeing the design of a cohesive, multi-sectoral national HRD strategy. By the end of the seminar, participants would have identified strategic priorities for a country of their choice. Currently unscheduled.
Recent Syllabi: None available
Credits: One course
Instructor: Staff
SOCIOL 171: Comparative Health Care Systems.(SS)
Description: The interaction of historical, political, economic, legal-ethical, and sociological factors in the organization and operation of health care systems in the United States, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and elsewhere. Offered every Spring. Note: the Bulletin listing of this course as a methods course isincorrect. It is only a core course.
Recent Syllabi: Spring 2004
Prerequisites: None
C-L: Canadian Studies, Comparative Area Studies, and Public Policy Studies 178
Credits: One course
Instructor: Taylor
Description: In this class, health and illness are examined across the life course. In essence, this course combines basic principles of both life course sociology and medical sociology. The theme of the course is that we can better understand health and illness if we also have knowledge of individual's lives in social and historical context. Major topics addressed in the course include the social pathways associated with health and illness, the utility of examining health trajectories and linking them to social risk factors, and the crucial distinction between prevalence and incidence of illness. The major theoretical orientations upon which the course rests are social causation and social selection. Multidisciplinary studies in which social and biological factors are jointly examined are also part of the course.
Recent Syllabi: None available
Prerequisites: None
Credits: One course
Instructor: Lin
Capstone Course
PUBPOL 255: Health Policy Analysis. (SS)
Description: Group analysis of a current health-policy problem. Project involves background research, data acquisition, analysis, writing and presentation of a substantial policy report. Designed for candidates seeking the graduate certificate in health policy.
Recent Syllabi: Spring 2004
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor required
Credits: One course
Instructor: Conover
* Note: The Business School semesters and daily schedules differ from those of Arts and Sciences; interested students should check with the Law School to find exact course times.
**August 6-10. This is a brand new 3-credit course offered during a high-intensity 1 week session to Fuqua Health Sector Management students, but open to other graduate students as well. Contact Adele Spitz-Roth at 660-2936.
***Note: The Law School semesters and daily schedules differ from those of Arts and Sciences; interested students should check with the Law School to find exact course times.
****Candidates for the Masters of Public Policy Degree seeking the Certificate need only complete one elective course if they write their master's memo on some aspect of health policy.
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