2013-2014 Graduate Catalog Downloadable PDF (10.71MB)

Texas A&MHealth Science Center 269624. Health Care Financial Management II. Credit 3. This is an intermediate course on health carefinancial management which covers several topics from PHPM 623 in depth and introduces new topicsand tools relating to capital financing, financial evaluation, and developing forecast financial statements.Several special topics are included that deal with current trends and issues (e.g., mergers andacquisitions, physician integration, and new payment mechanisms). The course consists of lectures andcase studies. As a team project, students develop a long-range financial plan for a hypothetical hospital.Prerequisites: PHPM 601, PHPM 605 or PHPM 606, PHPM 623.629. Organizational Assessment and Development. Credit 3. This course provides skills needed to supportcollaborative processes in diagnosing organizational needs and problems and introducing innovativestructures, processes, and other changes to enhance organizational responsiveness and accountability.631. Health Information Management Systems. Credit 3. Course introduces computer-based informationsystems, architectures and applications in the management of health services organizations. Itaddresses systems designs, data management systems, data access and communications, and the implicationsof expanding technological capacities for information management systems. Prerequisites:PHPM 601, PHPM 605 or PHPM 606.632. Inter-professional Health Care Ethics. Credit 2. Course is designed to introduce health professionstudents to ethical issues in every day practice in health care; develop self-awareness skills about theirown values, and those of others; provide them with tools to engage in self-reflective practice, all leadingto enhancement of patient-centered care and collaborative team work. Students will be exposed to awide range of ethical, professional, and policy issues.633. Health Law and Ethics. Credit 3. Course covers torts, contract law, corporate liability, malpractice,key federal and state regulations, and records management relative to healthcare. Important health caselaw is discussed. Ethical considerations are discussed as they relate to the law and management of healthdelivery systems. Prerequisites: PHPM 601, PHPM 605 or PHPM 606.639. Global Health. Credit 3. This course is intended to focus on policy needs of major public health issuesthat cross national boundaries and require a broader international and global perspective. There willbe a critical examination of public health and health care infrastructures, variations of health care financingprocesses, international governance, and the sharing of health-related public goods on a globalbasis. A future direction and strategies to achieve a healthier world amidst formidable challenges willbe discussed through course presentations, experts/visiting professors, and student-led case studies andarticle reviews.640. Health Policy and Politics. Credit 3. This course examines public and private sector institutionsresponsible for health policy development at the national and state levels, the interaction of national andregional health systems to create and implement rural health policies, and public programs providinghealth coverage, particularly those targeting rural residents. Prerequisite: PHPM 601.641. Health Policy Analysis and Policy Formation. Credit 3. An examination of the policy implementationprocess, with an emphasis on the role of interest groups, bureaucracies, and the courts in theimplementation of health policies; analysis of effective policy implementation and design and factorscontributing to that, as well as factors associated with failed implementation. Prerequisite: PHPM 601or PHPM 605.642. Public Health Emergency Preparedness Policy Issues. Credit 3. This course examines design andimplementation of public health policy at federal, state, and local levels. It addresses development,organization, financing, regulation, delivery and evaluation in many health policy areas. The courseexamines public health policy issues across the emergency preparedness continuum. Prerequisite:PHPM 601 or permission from the instructor.643. Comparative Health Care Delivery Systems. Credit 3. The course provides an overview of varyinginternational models of health and health care delivery systems. Strengths and weaknesses and relativecosts are considered. Implications for rural populations are highlighted.644. Texas Training Initiative for Emergency Response (T-Tier). Credit 3. This course develops theknowledge, skills, and abilities needed to effectively respond to bioterrorism, infectious disease outbreaks,and other public health threats and emergencies in a multi-disciplinary approach. The coursewill focus on competencies paralleling the critical benchmark of emergency preparedness as identifiedby the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as to gain the knowledge, skills and abilitiesalong with practice to protect the public’s health. Roles of the many public health workers will beexplored.