Winter
and Spring
2001
Understanding
Health Care:
In this two quarter program,
we will examine the “patchwork” of
health care access, cost
and quality. We will explore health care
within cultural context,
the stakeholders and political perspectives,
personal voices of health
care and health care dynamics in other
countries.
Each quarter can be undertaken
independently, however a review
of Starr's text The
Social Transformation of American Medicine
is suggested reading, prior
to joining Spring 2001 quarter.
Invited guest practitioners
from public health, private insurance
companies, the public sector
and others with direct clinical
experience in medical and
alternative models of care will help us
better understand the complexity
and multi-faceted “system” of
health care.
Participants will challenge
the individually and socially derived
constructs of “dis-ease”
and illness,health and wellness, while
exploring the concept of
mind/body/spirit integration. Within
workshops, rationing of
health care will be deliberate,
particularly the prioritized
list of the Oregon HealthPlan.
A case study highlightingWashington
State’s health care
reform will personally
engageparticipants to develop,
understand and apply complex
anddivergent concepts.
Spring quarter we will continue
to explore the medical model
and alternative pathways
to health care. We will study health
insurance history and fundalmentals
such as risk, pricing and
underwriting, as well as
historical opportunities for health
care reform and why reform
has failed. Special attention
will be given to the "Clinton
Health Care Reform" political
process. Participants will
explore health care reform
partnerships and collaboration
opportunities.
Participants will gain insight
and practical skills through
evaluatingalternative healthcare
reform models in
collaboration with Choice
Regional Health Care Network.
Also, current national
andstate incremental health care
reform will be explored
and participantswill be challenged
as futurists to design
health care systemsfunding, delivery
and political viablity.
Credit will be awarded in health care policy, and health care systems.
Some
Thoughts and Expectations for Seminar
Summer 2001
Program: "Health Care Public Administration": Beyond the Rhetoric
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