SPH 500 - Health Policy and Systems Research

Course Career Graduate
Units 3
Approved Hours 3-0-0
Fee index 6
Faculty Public Health
Department Public Health
Typically Offered either term

Description
This is a specialization course focused on developing and deepening participants’ understanding of critical policy issues affecting health and health services in a comparative perspective. The course will primarily review health policy in the context of Canadian populations and systems. This course also introduces students to the field of health policy analysis and teaches relevant concepts and methods that will provide students with basic skills required to conduct health policy research for the purposes of informing or explaining health policy development, to be critical consumers of health policy research and media coverage of health policy issues.