The course will deliver an overview of health navigator skills, needed knowledge and service experiences for students to function as a health navigator. Students will be trained to become effective health communicators, and provide assistance to patients through learning experiences. Students will gain insight/awareness into the patient experience and identify improvements to enhance patients' access and reception of healthcare information.

This course will address the development of the past and current US health policies within the context of historical, economic, cultural, and political environments. The political process and the roles and responsibilities of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government will be examined. The power and influence that politics, money, the media and special interest groups have had, and continue to have, upon the development of national and state health policies will be discuss and analyzed.

This course will address the development of the past and current US health policies within the context of historical, economic, cultural, and political environments. The political process and the roles and responsibilities of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government will be examined. The power and influence that politics, money, the media and special interest groups have had, and continue to have, upon the development of national and state health policies will be discuss and analyzed.

The course will include the study of moral reasoning and ethical theories in medical ethics. Ethical issues arising in the practice of health care delivery will be examined. Codes of ethics and the health professional's obligations to patients, colleagues, employing institutions, and the community will be considered and relevant case studies will be analyzed.

The course will include the study of moral reasoning and ethical theories in medical ethics. Ethical issues arising in the practice of health care delivery will be examined. Codes of ethics and the health professional's obligations to patients, colleagues, employing institutions, and the community will be considered and relevant case studies will be analyzed.

This course provides students an opportunity to study how healthcare quality and patient safety has changed over the last 10 years, how human error and "high-reliability organizations" (e.g., hospitals) interact, how changes to our healthcare system have affected care, and how quality/safety/improvement theories from other industries are impacting healthcare.

This course provides students an opportunity to study how healthcare quality and patient safety has changed over the last 10 years, how human error and "high-reliability organizations" (e.g., hospitals) interact, how changes to our healthcare system have affected care, and how quality/safety/improvement theories from other industries are impacting healthcare.

This course provides students an opportunity to study how healthcare quality and patient safety has changed over the last 10 years, how human error and "high-reliability organizations" (e.g., hospitals) interact, how changes to our healthcare system have affected care, and how quality/safety/improvement theories from other industries are impacting healthcare.

Independent study for undergraduate students with an interest in specific problem, topic, or issue in Human Health Sciences.

Independent study for undergraduate students with an interest in specific problem, topic, or issue in Human Health Sciences.