MPA : Health and Human Services Concentration
Students in the Health and Human Services concentration take classes in health care policy, economics, organization, and management.
The area also offers specialty courses with emphasis on the needs of particular patient groups such as the elderly and individuals with chronic illness, or on particular institutions such as hospitals, health maintenance organizations and long term care facilities.
This area of concentration provides the skills and knowledge necessary for careers in health care policy analysis or health care administration in the public, nonprofit and private health care sectors. Recent graduates in this area are employed in both public and private hospitals, health maintenance organizations, public health agencies, state health departments and community-based health care centers and specialty agencies.
Students must select their concentration courses from the following list. Other courses must be approved by their advisor and the department.
- PA 513 Government and the Nonprofit Sector
- PA 521 Social Policy
- PA 522 Organizational Analysis of Health Systems
- PA 523 Health and Public Policy
- PA 524 Management of Long Term Care
- PA 525 Current Topics in Health Services and Managed Care
- PA 526 Health Economics
- PA 527 Aging and Public Policy
- CPM 574 Health Administration and Policy
- CPM 581 Introduction to Community Health
- CPM 596J Health Policy: Leadership and Current Issues
- MAP/FCM 579 Issues in Rural Health Care
- PSYC/LAW 562 Mental Health Law and Policy
- MAP/FCM 579 Issues in Rural Health Care
- PSYC/LAW 562 Mental Health Law and Policy
- NVRS 646 Health Care Information Systems
- NVRS 645 Health Care Systems: Measurement and Analysis
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