Objectives
The UCLA School of Public Health is one of the top schools in the country. Students receive state-of-the-art public health training combined with practical, hands-on experience. The School's classrooms and laboratories are under the same roof as UCLA's medical, dental, and nursing schools, and just steps away from the University's world-renowned hospital, social and physical science facilities and the schools of engineering, law, business, and public policy.
The School is also enriched by its location in Los Angeles, where a melting pot of cultures, industries, and urban issues provide unparalleled opportunities for research, teaching and service. The School's Southern California location also provide students and faculty with a unique opportunity to be involved with cutting edge health care issues as many of the health system changes currently sweeping the country have origins in Southern California.
Course description
The MPH Program
All MPH Program graduates should demonstrate:
* thorough understanding of how personal health services are organized, financed and delivered;
* evidence of ability to apply this understanding using the policy process in the furtherance of improving health status and community health;
* knowledge of the role of public health services in meeting goals of health promotion, education and disease prevention;
* cognizance and application of ways to measure and assess the impact of access, technology and quality of care;
* understand the regulatory environment in which health delivery and public health function and understand the implications of those regulations on health services;
* comprehension of basic statistical skills to understand how health services research is conducted and interpret research findings;
* facility with various written and oral communication modalities to in order to intervene in health programs and further public health policy initiatives; and
* understand and apply techniques of planning, budgeting, management and evaluation of organizations and community initiatives.
Learning objectives specific to each program are as follows.
The Two-Year MPH Program
MPH graduates who choose to concentrate in health policy should be able to:
* apply paradigms from economics, sociology, political science and law to analyze policy issues and to develop potential policy solutions.
MPH graduates who choose to concentrate in health services management should be able to:
* apply paradigms from sociology, political science, organization theory and behavior, strategic planning and marketing, financial theory, quality improvement, information systems sciences, and other management sciences to continuously and effectively manage organizational performance and solve practical issues confronted while managing health care organizations
