Global Health and Health Policy 50 | The Quality of Health Care in America Ashish Kumar Jha (Medical School) and Anupam Bapu Jena (Medical School) Offers information and experiences regarding most important issues and challenges in health care quality. Overview of the dimensions of quality of care, including outcomes, overuse, underuse, variation in practice patterns, errors and threats to patient safety, service flaws, and forms of waste. Each session focuses on one specific issue, exploring patterns of performance, data sources, costs, causes, and remedies. Explores desirable properties of health care systems that perform at high levels in many dimensions of quality. |
Global Health and Health Policy 60 | Negotiation and Conflict Management: From the Interpersonal to the International Daniel Louis Shapiro (Medical School) How can you best negotiate conflict in your own life? How should policymakers negotiate global conflict? Around the world, conflict imposes profound direct and indirect costs on global health and individual well-being, ranging from death and injury to trauma, the loss of social networks, and destabilization of political systems. Rather than focusing on how to address the aftermath of conflict and violence, this course examines theory and practical methods to prevent destructive conflict. Explores theory, frameworks, and tools developed to negotiate the substantive, emotional, and identity-based dimensions of conflict. Applies the theory to a diversity of real-life negotiations, ranging from interpersonal disputes between friends to international conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere. |
Global Health and Health Policy 91 r | Supervised Reading and Research David M. Cutler (Public Health) and members of the Department Supervised reading leading to a long term paper on a topic or topics not covered by regular courses of instruction. |
Global Health and Health Policy 99 | Research in Global Health and Health Policy David M. Cutler (Public Health) Explores research topics and methods that are critical to evaluating current issues in national and global health care policy. Students will develop and execute an original research project that utilizes quantitative or qualitative research approaches to studying a domestic and global health policy topic of their interest. Such topics may include: the elements of health care reform, cost containment, quality measurement and improvement, racial and ethnic disparities in care, politics of health care, comparative health systems, global health, and organizational influences on quality. |