[PUBHLTH 122] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (75 pages long!)

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Public Health
• Course: PUBHLTH 122
• Professor: Terry Schmidt

Document Summary

Understanding the role of and conceptualizing health policy and law. Describes why it is important to include policy and law in the study of health care and public health. Discusses the vast influence of policy and law in health care and public health. Describe 3 ways to conceptualize health policy and law. The role of policy and law in health care and public health. Federal and state policy and law shape virtually all aspects of the healthcare system, from structure and organization, to service delivery, to financing, and to administrative and judicial oversight. Topic include: advertising and marketing of health services and products, health care contracting, employment issues, patents, taxation, health care discrimination and disparities, consumer protection, bioterrorism, health insurance, prescription drug regulation, and more. Choices made by policymakers and decisions handed down through the judicial system influence how we approach, experience, analyze, and research all of these and other specific aspects of the health care system.