300.715.01
Research and Evaluation Methods in Health Policy II
Location
East Baltimore
Term
4th Term
Department
Health Policy and Management
Credit(s)
3
Academic Year
2015 - 2016
Instruction Method
TBD
Tu, Th, 9:00 - 10:20am
Auditors Allowed
No
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Contact Name
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Resources
Prerequisite
300.713 RESEARCH AND EVALUATION METHODS IN HEALTH POLICY I
Continues concepts introduced in Research and Evaluation Methods I. Introduces basic principles and methods for undertaking scientifically rigorous research with a special emphasis on evaluations of interventions intended to improve health and safety. Focuses on evaluations of health policies, health care delivery systems, and public health programs. Also prepares students to apply the results of health policy research done by others. Topics include the relationship between health services research, health policy research, health policy analysis and health program management; approaches for assessing the impact of health policy and health program implementation; common research designs and their strengths and weaknesses; measurement issues of reliability and validity; survey research techniques; qualitative research methods; quality of care and outcomes measurement; use of existing health and safety data; and basic cost benefit and effectiveness analysis.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
- Critique published health services research and health policy/program evaluations
- Develop an appropriate study design for a research or evaluation project
- Describe the relationship between health services research and program evaluation
- Identify differences between basic and policy-relevant health services research projects and program evaluation
- Develop a conceptual framework for a study, showing the hypothesized causal variables and the expected outcomes
- Identify different types of study design, including observational, pre-experimental and experimental designs, and their inherent threats to internal and external validity
- Describe the basic issues related to measurement of variables
- Identify problems with measurement reliability and validity
- Identify aspects of quality of care and its measurement as they relate to health services research projects
- Discuss how survey research is used in health services research and evaluation, in terms of choice of sampling techniques, determination of sample size, and approaches to writing survey questions
Final grade applies to all terms
Enrollment Restriction
graduate students only