Explore the political process, policy development, and leadership challenges of implementing service changes in healthcare. Discover healthcare policy, from formulation to policy implementation. On this course, you’ll have the opportunity to evaluate and debate the practices and challenges related to policy development and formulation at local and national levels.
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As you consider the changing dimensions of healthcare provision, you’ll have the chance to examine the evolution, principles and policies of policy identification, formulation and implementation.
You’ll look at various health policies in detail to trace the connections between them and explore their respective impact.
You’ll also be encouraged to take on a global perspective by considering the Sustainable Development Goals.
This course is part of the program Policy, Politics and Transforming Practice , which is one of the building blocks that leads to a degree in Master of Business Administration (Health Care Sector).
What topics will you cover?
- Definition of health care policy
- Connections to healthcare policies
- What are health policies?
- Global perspective – Sustainable Development Goals
- Developing policies and impact assessments
- Definitions
- Building health policies
- Measuring impacts
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Demonstrate an understanding of different theories that are useful in policy formulation and analysis
- Identify key features of the processes of policy identification, formulation and implementation
- Justify and exemplify the policy role in learning organisations, innovation and change in healthcare
