Instructor(s)

Kerry Redican
Professor, Learning Sciences and Technologies
Phone: (540) 231-5743
E-mail: kredican@vt.edu

Description

This course will focus on relevant and timely public health administration concepts. The major topics covered include: health policy, health care planning, health care economics, health law, and managerial functions as they relate to health care and public health settings.

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

No prerequisites and co-requisites required.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of the course students will be able to:

1. Use defensible points to argue for or against restructuring the U.S. health care system.
2. Develop an administrative response to a situation involving conflict resolution.
3. Apply an ethical framework to making a medical/health procedural decision.
4. Apply management principles simulated public health care issues or problems.