The document summarizes the Healthcare Management and Policy track at Oregon State University. The track prepares students to solve healthcare problems through sound frameworks while studying healthcare delivery from various perspectives. Courses emphasize the connections between financing and delivering care, and between developing and implementing sound policy through good management. Topics covered include economic, political, legal, management and financial issues influencing the healthcare sector. This option prepares students for careers in healthcare policy, administration, and management in both public and private organizations.

1. Oregon State University: College of Public Health and Human Sciences
 Healthcare Managementand Policy – AccreditedProgram
 “In the Health Managementand Policy track you will develop abilities to solve healthcare problems in
practical ways within sound conceptual frameworks and will studyhealth services deliveryfrom the distinct
viewpoints of those who receive, provide, finance and regulate care.
 Courses emphasize the connection between financing care and delivering care, and between developing
sound policyand implementing itthrough good management.The curriculum includes courses on current
economic,political,legal,managementand financial issues thatdirectly influence the health sector.
 This option will prepare you for entry into health policy positions in federal,state or local governments,as
well as administrative and managementcareers in private and public healthcare organizations.”
Healthcare Managementand Policy SpecificCourses – DifferentiationfromBusinessdegree
 Advanced Topics in Health Care Management – Grade: A
o Participants will learn key principles,practices and personalities ofhealth care management.The
content is broadlyapplicable to health care enterprises ofevery kind:public health organizations,
physician practices and clinics,hospitals and health systems,agencies and service organizations,
for-profit firms,not-for-profitenterprises,etc.Covers how health services are governed and
organized;how health care organizations assess and adaptto change;constraints/opportunities in
shaping organizational performance;leadership;strategic decision-making and the use of
evidence-based managementin health care.
 Financial Management of Health Care Organizations – Grade: A
o Utilization of standard financial tools needed to manage the capital resources ofhealth care
organizations.Includes funding capital projects,productcosting,budgeting methods,capital
formation and investmentstrategies.
 Economic Issues in Health and Medical Care – Grade: A
o Application of economic principles to the health care field: the demand for medical care and
insurance,health care suppliers,health care markets.
 Health Care Law and Regulation – Grade: A
o Legal aspects ofhealth care delivery; tort law and its applications;professional liabilityand liability
insurance;laws relative to health care institutions,costcontrols,antitrustand access
 Human Resources Management – Grade: A-
o Personnel administration for line supervisors and managers.Integrates systems approach to
understanding governmentregulation ofemployment,resolution ofworkplace personnel problems,
and performance-based personnel management
 Biomedical Ethics – Grade: A-
o Application of ethical principles and decision-making processes to selected problems in medicine,
health care, and biotechnology.Special attention given to end-of-life choices,reproductive rights
and technologies,organ transplantation,research ethics,genetic engineering,and allocating
scarce resources.An interdisciplinaryfocus that draws on social,legal,economic,and scientific
issues in ethical decisions in medicine.
 Reimbursement Mechanisms – Grade: B+
o Introduces and analyzes the differenttypes of healthcare reimbursementmethodologies used in
the U.S. health care system.
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