Principles of Population Health: Population Health and Healthcare Systems
Examines the role of healthcare systems in improving population health within the broader context of multiple determinants of health.
Summary
Lectures are small, with a median of 11 enrolled students in the recorded sections.
What you’ll be able to do
Apply principles of population health sciences to understand the major dilemmas and tradeoffs involved in attempts to improve healthcare delivery, utilization, outcomes, and quality.
Apply principles of population health sciences to understand the role of health care as one of many determinants of population health
Apply principles of population health sciences to understand how efficient delivery of healthcare services is hindered by different forms of market failure and how the attainment of value-based cost-effective health care depends on the reimbursement and insurance incentives designed to encourage it.
Demonstrate understanding of policy and program evaluation and its role in research dissemination, and understanding of the use and misuse of data in the development of evidence health policy.
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Considers the roles of healthcare systems in improving population health, focusing on the importance of considering healthcare as one among multiple determinants of health.
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Topics
- Healthcare systems' role in population health and determinants of health.
- Dilemmas and tradeoffs in healthcare delivery, utilization, outcomes, and quality.
- Market failure, reimbursement, and insurance incentives for value-based cost-effective care.
- Policy and program evaluation, research dissemination, and data use in evidence health policy.
Skills
- Applying population health science principles to analyze healthcare delivery dilemmas and tradeoffs.
- Analyzing market failures and reimbursement/insurance incentives affecting value-based cost-effective healthcare.
- Understanding policy and program evaluation, research dissemination, and the use/misuse of data in evidence health policy.
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