HCA 452/652 Homepage – Health Politics and Policy Fall 2006

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Course Description:
This course provides the student an understanding of the role of politics and policy-making as an external environmental impact on health care. The course will describe the political process in health care policy-making at all government levels. Interest group politics will be introduced in the context of the roles that these groups play in health care policy development and how these forces and health care organizations react to shape health care policy.

Three credit hours.

Class location: WRI C307
Meeting Time: Wednesdays, 7:00-9:45pm

Office Hours: Tuesday 12:00 – 1:00pm, Wednesdays and Thursday 4-6pm 
Website: www.unlv.edu/faculty/ccochran

Instructor Information

Chris Cochran, Ph.D. Healthcare Administration and Policy Department School of Public Health
Address:	4505 Maryland Parkway Bigelow Health Sciences Bldg., Room 536 Las Vegas, Nevada 89154
Telephone:	(702) 895-1400
Fax:	(702) 895-5184
Email:	chris.cochran@unlv.edu
Website:	www.unlv.edu/faculty/ccochran

Course Syllabus (HTML) (Document Version)

Note to students: make sure you complete the Student Info so I can send you the assigned articles.

Lectures HCA 452_652

Group Presentation Assignment (word doc)

Reading Assignment Presentations (please note, since only a couple of you have sent me the contact information requested, I am assuming that you are downloading your articles from the library. Please be prepared to cover the articles in class. I am unable to access my work email at present and cannot get connected to web campus. cc)

For research and literature reviews Search Medline

Student Contact Information