{"id":5021,"date":"2014-08-13T13:19:05","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T20:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/?p=5021"},"modified":"2014-08-13T13:19:05","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T20:19:05","slug":"hserv-552-health-policy-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/2014\/08\/hserv-552-health-policy-development\/","title":{"rendered":"HSERV 552 &#8211; Health Policy Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HSERV 552 &#8211; Health Policy Development<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Autumn 2014<\/p>\n<p>Monday\/Wednesday, 10\u00a0:30 \u2013 11\u00a0:50am, SCC 303<\/p>\n<p>Prerequisites\u00a0: Graduate students only<\/p>\n<p><strong>Course Description and Goals<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Health Policy refers to decisions that guide organizational and individual behaviors affecting health and the financing, delivery, and use of health services.\u00a0 Using contemporary health policy issues, we will examine how science and community values intertwine in health policy development, how context (e.g., ideology, culture, and history) influence the structure of and changes to a nation\u2019s health system, and how international treaties and relationships can affect health and health services.\u00a0 We will also discuss the important relationship between how a society measures success, its public policies, and how it allocates and distributes resources.<\/p>\n<p>You will learn about health policy development in this class through a combination of methods, including case studies, problem based learning (PBL), small and large group discussions, group projects, role plays, and written and oral presentations \u2026 your learning will be largely through processes of self-discovery.\u00a0 This course includes <em>few<\/em> traditional lectures.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Instructor: Aaron Katz, <a href=\"mailto:garlyk@uw.edu\">garlyk@uw.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aaron Katz is a principal lecturer of Health Services, Global Health, and Law at the University of Washington School of Public Health where he teaches several graduate level courses in health policy.\u00a0 Aaron has held numerous academic leadership positions, including his current role as faculty coordinator of the Health Systems and Policy Concentration of the Health Services Master of Public Health (MPH) program and as founding director of the Leadership, Policy, and Management track of the Global Health MPH program.\u00a0 He was director of the UW Health Policy Analysis Program from 1988 until 2003 and editor-in-chief of the School\u2019s biannual journal, <em>Northwest Public Health<\/em>, from 1999 to 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron received the American Public Health Association\u2019s Award for Excellence in November 2006 and the Outstanding Teaching Award from the UW School of Public Health in 2004.\u00a0 At the 2011 \u201cState of Reform\u201d Washington Health Policy Conference, Aaron received the Health Reform Leadership Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HSERV 552 &#8211; 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