CLASS SYLLABI

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COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

HPM 200A - Health Systems Organization and Financing

Students will gain basic knowledge and understanding of key issues in: public health and health services, comparative health systems, access to health care, racial and ethnic disparities in health care, multilevel social determinants of health, quality of care, health care information systems, long-term care and support for the elderly population, vulnerable populations, changes to the health care delivery system, the safety net, health information technologies and ethical issues in public health. This course sequence will provide future health care policy analysts and researchers with basic knowledge of health systems’ organization and financing, current key problems and efforts to reform them.

Slides & Resources:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0ByWgQHe12xDPMlR0eUtKdUEzODA?usp=sharing

HPM 225A - Health Services Research Methodology I

This course provides an introduction to scope of health services research, conceptualization and design of health services research, choice and assessment of measures for such research, and methods for studies involving direct data collection. Broad overview to conducting health services research, alternative research paradigms, building conceptual models of what students are trying to study, designing and testing measures, and direct data collection issues of survey and questionnaire design, sampling, community engagement, and research ethics.

Slides & Resources:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByWgQHe12xDPUjdZOUhYeHA0eGs

Introduction to Statistics for Health Services Research

Intro to Statistics for Health Services Research is an accelerated course that is meant to provide an overview of basic statistical methods for health services researchers. The class will meet over 12 two-hour lecture session plus 11 two-hour lab sessions.

Slides & Resources: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1X4aqV4gHQV9wQoTOjk7E3pIsJhBdWHQ2?usp=sharing

Pressing Health Issues and Resources in Los Angeles

Pressing Health Issues and Resources in Los Angeles is a seminar that reviews the status of health in our community, the pressing health concerns as well as the resources to help us create solutions. History of Los Angeles, heath disparities, the safety net, projects and solutions are topics for review and discussion in this seminar, which takes place over Summer in year 1 of the program.

Slides & Resources: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_GWQoObnTh2Llj9Ln3OjG2xDhrfQwuSu?usp=sharing

HPM 266AB - Community-Based Participatory Health Research I & II

Lecture, one hour; discussion, one hour; fieldwork, two hours. Limited to clinical scholars fellows. Mentoring of field experiences with introduction to critical issues in conducting research in community settings. Review of assignments, interventions, and evaluation designs for community settings and discussion of practical issues in partnering with communities. Letter grading.

Slides & Resources:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByWgQHe12xDPTnFsczBHMFdRdnM

HPM 216 - Special Topics in Health Services: Quality Assessment and Assurance

The purpose of this course is to acquaint students with the principles of quality assessment, health status, and how to improve value in health care at both the policy and operational level. Letter grading.

Slides & Resources:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BxOFb5JVxpsoNDRYYjAwNkZpZGc?usp=sharing

SEMINAR SERIES

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