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Course List

Spring 2012

PPD 509: Problems and Issues in the Health Field (4.0 units)
Principles of epidemiology; disease trends, treatment efficacy, influences on utilization; health promotion, disease prevention and health protection; intergovernmental relationships; management of public health programs.

PPD 587: Risk Analysis (4.0 units)
Concepts of risk analysis, risk in engineered systems, environmental risk, security risks; fault trees, event trees, risk simulations; risks and decision-making.

Summer 2012

PPD 502x: Statistical Foundations for Public Management and Policy (2 units, max 0)
Statistical analysis concepts and reasoning; sampling and data sources; focus on basic statistical applications in public management and policy analysis

Fall 2012

PPD 501a: Economics for Policy, Planning and Development (2.0 units)
Microeconomic theory as applied to policy, planning, and development; concepts of efficiency; macroeconomic issues.

PPD 501b: Economics for Policy, Planning and Development (2.0 units)
Microeconomic analysis and modeling to incorporate market failure and issues of uncertainty and information failure; organization models; policy instruments; policy and planning applications.

PPD 502x: Statistical Foundations for Public Management and Policy (2.0 units, max 0)
Statistical analysis concepts and reasoning; sampling and data sources; focus on basic statistical applications in public management and policy analysis

PPD 683: Homeland Security and Public Policy (4.0 units)
Definition and history of terrorism, counterterrorism, domestic policy and public sector management; intelligence/information sharing and analysis; emergency perparedness planning, response and recovery.

PPD 601: Management of Long-Term Care Organizations (4.0 units)
History, development, trends; major policy issues; organization of systems; principles and techniques of administration; management of institutional and community based programs.

PPD 508: Health Care Operations Improvement (3.0 units)
Improving operations, patient flow, quality and processes. Students will become familiar with methods for implementing change in health care settings such as hospitals or clinics.