MHA 5201: Health Resources and Policy Analysis

Objectives

1. Define health and health policy and make the connection between health policies and health.
2. Describe the role and importance of political competence in the pursuit of health.
3. Identify the impact of health policy on individuals, organizations and systems, and interest groups.
4. Explore and discuss the real world of health policy and the concept of healthy people in 2010.
5. Explain the context of policy making, which consists of the political market place, demanders, and suppliers of health policies and the interplay among them.
6. Describe the concept of agenda setting as a part of policy formulation and the role of CEOs in agenda setting.
7. Discuss the development of legislation and the process from formulation to implementation.
8. Identify the cyclical relationship between rule-making and operation and describe the managerial challenges of policy implementation.
9. Distinguish policy modification from policy initiation.
10. Define policy-making as a cyclical process.
11. Explain the role of “incrementalism” in policy-making.
12. Ascertain the identity of key structural features of policy modification.
13. Recognize and describe the political competences and the advantage of lead time.
14. Analyze and interpret public policy environments and the influence they experience by political competence.
15. Define the concept of good corporate citizenship.

PreRequisites

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