HTH RS M 738 / Health Policy Analysis

3 unit(s)

Prerequisite(s): Enrolment in HRM; or eHealth/Health Policy programs plus permission of instructor.

This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary field of health policy analysis, providing the concepts and tools needed to be able to critically appraise and carry out policy analyses in a variety of settings. Students are introduced to the field of policy studies, the stages of the policy process, and to the different purposes and methods for policy analysis. Through critical examination of key policy analysis concepts and frameworks, students learn how to analyze the relative roles played by different actors in the health system and explore the independent and combined influence of three major determinants of health policy: ideas, interests and institutions. Each week different concepts and/or analytic frameworks are presented, discussed and applied to a particular problem or case study.