PUBPOL 5781

Global Comparative Health Care Systems

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

This course teaches students how to determine whether and why a health care system is achieving its three primary objectives – broad access to medical care, high quality medical care, and relatively low medical spending. Students will learn basic methodological tools to analyze how selected high-, medium-, and low-income countries around the world finance their health care system, organize the providers of medical care, and reimburse those providers, using the U.S. system as the focal point. Students will explore how the United States might implement policies from these other countries to improve its health care system.

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Learning Outcomes

• Analyze, and evaluate health care systems.
• Identify the basic organizational structure of the following health care systems with their various components and interactions: U.S., Germany, Canada, China, Singapore, UK, and others.
• Express ideas clearly and persuasively orally and in writing (Cornell University learning outcome).
• Develop teamwork and leadership skills.

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