PH 111 Evaluating Medical Care for Improvement of Population Health
Almost a half century after John Wennberg’s seminal Science paper “Small Area Variations in Health Care Delivery”, inquiry into health care performance and variation continues to inform public policy and identify opportunities for health system improvement. Today, making sense of health care quality and spending is the shared responsibility of researchers, public health agencies, health care providers, clinicians, and not-for-profit organizations. This course highlights the theories, methods, findings, and associated remedies of population-based health care assessment, including public reporting. This is an active learning course. Course talks are pre-recorded and are viewed along with assigned readings prior to classes. Students are engaged participants in classes with time reserved for questions, exercises and discussion of weekly course material. Students develop a policy brief that intersects course material with their own interests. Course and class engagement is central to the learning experience and is self-evaluated by each student.
0.50 Dartmouth units; (HP, P, LP, NC)
*Core Requirement for MS
Offered: Winter (1st half) - Monday and Wednesday 8:15 am -9:55 am
Instructor
David Goodman