The Department of Health Systems, Management & Policy offers a variety of courses in each of its academic programs. Courses are offered on the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and University of Northern Colorado. Students also have the opportunity to take courses within other schools and colleges at the University of Colorado Denver.
Course Listings
HSMP6602 | Health Equity | 2.0 Credits | Campus: AMC - Fall
Addresses health inequities affecting the poor, racial and ethnic minorities, prisoners, rural residents, disabled, GLBTI and other populations. The course studies 1) measurement/data issues in health inequity research; 2) institutionalized, personally mediated and internalized causes; and 3) solutions/challenges.
HSMP6603 | Health Systems and Management | 3.0 Credits | Campus: AMC – Fall, Spring, Summer
Provides students an overview of the U.S. healthcare systems. Students learn about the organization, management and financing of the U.S. Healthcare System, including provider payment mechanisms, health insurance theory and practice and the financing and organization of public programs.
HSMP6604 | Health Care Economics | 3.0 Credits | Campus: AMC – Fall
Uses economic theory and empirical research to examine how our economy utilizes scarce resources to produce, distribute and consume health and medical services. Employs demand, production and cost theories, markets and cost-effectiveness to analyze medical service sectors and policy interventions.
HSMP6605 | Health Policy | 3.0 Credits | Campus: AMC – Spring (Prereq: HSMP 6603)
Course focuses on important U.S. health policy issues and the analysis, implementation, communication skills for the practice of health policy. Evaluation is based on in-class labs, group projects, and analysis paper of a health policy case example.
HSMP 6606 | Public Health Administration | 3.0 Credits | Campus: AMC - Fall
Course provides an introduction to public health management and administration. Components aim to stimulate interactions around important problems and issues including managerial decision-making and increasing practical knowledge, tools, and strategies required by organizational decision-makers. Business plans are produced.
HSMP 6607 | Current Legal Issues in Health Care | 2.0 Credits | Campus: AMC - Spring
Course trains students in foundational Constitutional principles that guide public health law at the state and federal levels. It also explores cornerstone public health law problems and encourages analysis of contemporary legal questions in public health and health care administration.
HSMP 6608 | Ethical/Legal Issues - Public Health | 2.0 Credits | Campus: AMC - Fall
This course explores the legal and ethical dimension of public health. It focuses on topics that generate legal and ethical controversies, including governmental duties to protect citizens, the nature and extent of the government’s ability to regulate conduct, and responses to epidemics.
HSMP6609 | Cost Benefit and Effectiveness in Health| 3.0 Credits | Campus: AMC – Spring (Prereq: HSMP 6603/6604)
Introduces students to the basics of economic evaluations of health care interventions or technology. Economic evaluations provide a method to assimilate different cost and health outcomes associated with medical treatments into a common metric.
HSMP6610 | Health Care Financial Management| 3.0 Credits | Campus: AMC – Fall
Students will acquire the tools to incorporate financial, strategic, and mission-based objectives into capital investment decisions. The material also enables students to assess financing options and understand asset valuation techniques, create financial statements and perform pro-forma financial analyses.
HSMP 6611 | Strategic Management in Health Care | 2.0 Credits | Campus: AMC - Fall (Prereq: HSMP 6603)
Students will learn the principles of competition, strategic analysis and management, and will develop important skills necessary to analyze the healthcare environment and adapt strategies, systems, products, services and culture to effectively manage healthcare organizational change and renewal.
HSMP 6612 | Principles of Health Care Management | 2.0 Credits | Campus: AMC - Spring (Prereq: HSMP 6603)
Course develops business knowledge and skills to work effectively in healthcare. Covers staffing/human resource issues along with QA and quality improvement approaches and tools to analyze real world data. Through original cases, the establishment of a healthcare firm is explored.
HSMP 6615 | Current Issues in Global Health Policy| 2.0 Credits | Campus: AMC – Summer
Students should be able to identify major actors and their roles in global health policy; discuss major policy issues focusing on poverty reduction using case study examples; and write a health policy analysis paper for the assessment of the course.
HSMP 6630 | Grant Writing for Public Health Professionals | 2.0 Credits | Campus: AMC – Spring
Course focuses on the basic skills required to develop, fund and evaluate data-driven, evidence-based public health programs, interventions and projects.
HSMP 6633 | Management of Nonprofit Organizations in Public Health | 2.0 Credits | Campus: AMC - Spring
Course introduces nonprofit theory, focuses on nonprofit leadership and management, and explores nonprofit innovation and change within the context of public health. A highly practical and applied approach for students working in the nonprofit sector or with nonprofit partners.
HSMP 6670 | Ambulatory Care Management | 2.0 Credits | Campus: AMC - Spring (Prereq: HSMP 6610)
Overviews the managerial challenges faced in all types of ambulatory healthcare settings, including physician offices, community health centers and hospital outpatient departments. Topics include governance; leadership; business and clinical operations; human resources; information management; compliance; risk, safety and quality management.
HSMP 6670 | Pharmaceutical & Medical Device Policy | 2.0 Credits | Campus: AMC - Summer
Course presents overview of U.S. policies and regulations related to the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. Topics include: market structure of and economic incentive facing these industries; FDA approval process; policies and regulations affecting R&D; and marketing and promotion.
HSMP 6670 | Maternal & Child Health Policy | 2.0 Credits | Campus: AMC - Fall
This course provides an overview of the health policy process in the U.S. with respect to the maternal and child health field, foundations and structure of the financing, organization and delivery of health services for women, children, and families.
HSMP 6670 | Introduction to Health Policy Analysis and Communication | 1.0 Credit | Campus: AMC – Winter Intercession
Introduces a framework for systemically and critically evaluating the health policy literature. Reviews effective oral and written communication skills for presenting policy analyses. Evaluation is based on a written analysis of a policy paper of the student’s choosing.
HSMP 6670 | Health Care Transformation in Colorado | 2.0 Credits | Campus: AMC – Spring
Students will engage with state leaders about current initiatives and policy issues in Colorado. Topics include behavioral and physical health integration, reducing hospital readmissions, patient-centered medical homes, public health and primary care partnerships, obesity, access, and chronic care population management.
HSMP 7010 | Foundations in HSR (seminar) | 1.0 Credit | Campus: AMC – Fall, Spring (permission of instructor required)
Introduces students to the academic health services research literature. This seminar course requires students to participate in small seminars led by faculty on different health services research topics plus attending larger HSMP departmental seminars. Evaluation is based on weekly papers.
HSMP 7607 | Methods in Health Services Research I | 3.0 Credits | Campus: AMC – Spring (Prereq: BIOS 6601)
Introduces students to the basics of economic evaluations of health care interventions or technology. Economic evaluations provide a method to assimilate different cost and health outcomes associated with medical treatments into a common metric.
HSMP 7609 | Methods in Health Services Research II | 3.0 Credits | Campus: AMC – Fall (Prereq: HSMP 7607)
Students will learn how to specify and estimate econometric models to test theory-driven hypotheses. The course builds on HSMP 7607 and covers advanced methods related to panel/longitudinal, multinomial, survival, and count data models. Stata software will be used.