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Course Title: Introduction to the Evolving Health Care System
Campus Course Code: HPRS 3301
Campus: UT Brownsville
Program: BAT - Health Services Technology
Description

Introduces the student to the organizational structure of the U.S. Health Care system. Provides historical perspective to the system evolution from institutional-based to population based and cost-unaware to cost-aware values. Describes the financing mechanisms, primary providers and secondary providers, and consumers of health care. Discusses how technology affects the politics of the system. Discusses the health care system along the Texas-Mexico borders and how cultural influences impacts health care delivery.

Materials

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Credits:3
Level:Undergraduate
Faculty

Constance  Hayes
constance.hayes@utb.edu
956-882-5019


John  McCabe
john.mccabe@utb.edu
956-882-5017