Greetings!
Please forward the following Winter 2015 Health Services course announcements to your graduate students as appropriate. These courses are relevant for students with interests in public health, health services, health policy, advanced methods, health promotion, health behavior, behavior change theory, and health economics.
Many thanks,
Lauren
Click MORE for info on the following courses:
HSERV 513: Health Policy Research (16 spaces currently available!)
HSERV 524: Advanced Health Services Research Methods II: Hierarchical and Incomplete Data (9 spaces currently available!)
HSERV 581: Strategies of Health Promotion (14 spaces currently available!)
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HSERV 513: Health Policy Research (16 spaces currently available!)
Instructor: Dr. Doug Conrad
3 Credits
Mondays/Wednesdays 12:00-1:20pm
University of Washington Seattle campus, HSB T530
Health Services 513 concentrates on research that aims to inform public policy and health organizations’ decisions related to the effectiveness, efficiency, and equity of public health and personal health services. Such research includes conceptual and empirical analyses of public and private organizational policy options, program evaluation, analysis of public health or personal health services interventions using a variety of randomized and quasi-experimental designs, as well as meta-analyses and structured reviews of previous studies.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
– Identify the elements of the public policy process and describe their social and historical underpinnings
– Identify the players in the public policy process and compare their roles in the process
– Analyze the interactions among public policy, economic markets, and the legal and political environment
– Characterize different policy-analytic methodologies and their applicability for different policy research questions
– Critically evaluate examples of policy research
– Perform either a systematic review of research pertaining to a specific policy question or a theory and evidence-based policy analysis with recommendations on a specific policy question.
– Conceptualize the dimensions of specific policy problems and relate them to considerations of effectiveness, efficiency, and equity.
Questions? Contact Professor Doug Conrad: dconrad@uw.edu
To register, visit UW Seattle Time Schedule: https://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/WIN2015/hlthsvcs.html, SLN# 15092
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HSERV 524: Advanced Health Services Research Methods II: Hierarchical and Incomplete Data (9 spaces currently available!)
Instructor: Dr. Gary Chan
4 Credits
Mondays/Wednesdays 1:30-3:20pm
University of Washington Seattle campus, HSB T474
Health Services 524 will cover the topics of causal inference, missing data, multilevel models and incomplete follow-up data. For multilevel models, emphasis will be placed on both conditional and marginal models and their interpretations for both linear and non-linear models. For incomplete follow-up data, students will be exposed to survival analysis methods, including competing risks and censored medical cost. The emphasis of this course is on the application of advanced biostatistical techniques in applied research.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
– Understand and apply statistical methods for analyzing missing data
– Understand counterfactual models and graphical approaches to causal inference
– Model correlation in multilevel data
– Apply suitable statistical methods for answering scientific questions using multilevel data and survival data
– Identify statistical issues related to incomplete follow-up data
– Implement the analyses using STATA
– Interpret the results appropriately to a non-specialist
– Critique the methods used in health services literature
Questions? Contact Professor Gary Chan: kcgchan@uw.edu
To register, visit UW Seattle Time Schedule: https://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/WIN2015/hlthsvcs.html, SLN# 15093
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HSERV 581: Strategies of Health Promotion (14 spaces currently available!)
Instructor: Dr. Margaret (Peggy) Hannon
4 Credits
Tuesdays/Thursdays 1:00-2:50pm
University of Washington Seattle campus, HSB T478
Health Services 581 provides an overview of the process of designing, implementing, and evaluating health promotion interventions, with an emphasis on the theoretical underpinnings of health behavior change. The teaching methods for this course include lectures, guest presentations, student discussions, critiques of health promotion programs, and development of a health promotion intervention proposal.
Prerequisite: HSERV 511 or permission of instructor
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
– Apply a 10-question process to the development of health promotion interventions;
– Critique a published health promotion intervention study;
– Describe and apply several theories relevant to health behavior change;
– Discuss health promotion interventions at each level of the socio-ecological model;
– Design a health promotion intervention and present it as a grant proposal;
– Access and use a variety of resources to inform health promotion efforts.
Questions? Contact Professor Peggy Hannon: peggyh@uw.edu
To register, visit UW Seattle Time Schedule: https://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/WIN2015/hlthsvcs.html, SLN# 15108
