Doctor's degrees in Health Professions and Related Clinical Sciences, Other: Any instructional program in the health professions and related clinical sciences not listed in the Health Professions and Related Clinical Sciences, General category.
Epidemiology, the study of the frequency, distribution and determinants of disease in humans, is a fundamental science of public health. Epidemiologists use many approaches, but the ultimate aim of epidemiologic research is the prevention or effective control of human disease.
The doctoral programs are designed for students who plan careers in epidemiologic research or teaching or for those who aspire to leadership roles in the health professions...
The concentration in economics focuses on the economic behavior of individuals; providers; insurers; and federal state and local governments and actors as their actions affect health and medical care. In addition to examing the literature on health economics, the training emphasizes microeconomic theory, econometrics,and interactions with other disciplines, including clinical medicine. The concentrarion prepares students for research and teaching...
The ethics concentration integrates quantitative, qualitative, and normative approaches to the ananlysis of ethical issues in health policy and clinical practise. Increasingly, the investigation of ethical issues in medicine and healthy policy has not only drawn on normative ethics and political philosophy, but has included empirical research concerning attitudes and practises in clinical and broader institutional settings. A grasp of normative...
The concentration in evaluative sciences includes statistices and probability, and quantitative methods in biometry, economics, epidemiology, psycology, and sociology. This training enables students to design experiments and surveys, to perform outcome assesment studies, to develope statistical models and analyses to evaluate these studies, and to make statisical inferences from observational data sets that arise from health policy and medical care...
The management concentration prepares students to do research on the organizational, managerial, and strategic issues facing health care providers, payers, and other players in the health care market. Students in this track will learn how theories and concepts from fields such as technology and operations management, organizational behavior, organizational economics, and competitive stategy can be applied to-and further developed for understanding-...
In the medical sociology track students will learn about several research areas including the study of professions and professional behavior, the structure of health care organization and systems, the impact of organizational and professional change on the structure of medical work, organizational improvement programs and their evaluation, the diffusion of innovation across providers and organizations, and the behavior of patients and consumers -including...
This concentration is intended for students who wish to conduct research on the relationship between political decision making and health policy. In an effort to make meaningful contributions to health policy domestically and abroad, students will gain relevant skill sets to analye the effects of presidential and congressional decision making, public opinion, interest group activism, media influence, and other institutions on health policy outcomes....
A.T. Still University's Arizona School of Health Sciences offers a Doctor of Health Sciences (D.H.Sc.) degree through distance learning with a one-week on-site institute. The Doctor of Health Sciences is a post-professional degree designed for masters prepared healthcare professionals. The program focuses on critical analysis and evaluation of complex issues and challenges faced by today's healthcare...
A.T. Still University's Arizona School of Health Sciences offers a Doctor of Health Sciences (D.H.Sc.) degree through distance learning with a one-week on-site institute. The Doctor of Health Sciences is a post-professional degree designed for masters prepared healthcare professionals. The program focuses on critical analysis and evaluation of complex issues and challenges faced by today's healthcare...
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