PHAR 614 Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

The course aims to provide students with an overall understanding of the U.S. health care system.  Students who complete this course should be able to describe several important aspects of the health care system, such as the key stakeholders of the system, the service delivery settings and processes, and financing mechanism of the system.  The outcomes of the U.S. health care system will be examined from the perspectives of cost, quality and access, and related health policy issues will be discussed.  In addition, this course will introduce components in the health care system that pertain to pharmacists, such as pharmaceutical industry, government agencies that regulate drugs and health services, as well as various system changes due to the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010.