HCMI 4448: Clinical and Social Issues in Health Care
Spring 2024 Wednesday 6:00 PM – 8:50 PM BUSN 203
Instructor: Shane Murphy; Email: shane@uconn.edu; Website: https://shane-murphy.uconn.edu/teaching/spring-2022-hcmi-5243/; Office: BUSN 460
Office Hours: Wednesday 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM and by appointment
This is the website for HCMI 4448: Health Care Economics. The syllabus can be found on HuskyCT.
On this page you can find a calendar which includes links to materials from each week and lists the weeks readings. Homework assignments are to do a reading response for one of the readings and are listed on HuskyCT.
Quiz make-up assignment description is on HuskyCT. Articles for quiz make-ups should be chosen from Health Affairs Blog, News@JAMA, or Kaiser Health News. Information about the exams and paper will also be posted to HuskyCT.
Course Schedule:
(for off campus access, you may need to use the UConn VPN)
January 17: Intro and US Epidemiology (slides)
*(optional) Mokdad, Ali H., Katherine Ballestros, Michelle Echko, Scott Glenn, Helen E. Olsen, Erin Mullany, Alex Lee et al. “The state of US health, 1990-2016: burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors among US states.” Jama 319, no. 14 (2018): 1444-1472.
*(optional) Fuchs, Victor R. “Major trends in the US health economy since 1950.” New England Journal of Medicine 366, no. 11 (2012): 973-977.
January 24: Epidemics – AIDS and Covid (slides)
*Documentary – How to Stop a Plague by David France
January 31: Cancer, Palliative Care, and Hospice (slides)
* Zadeh, Rana Sagha, Paul Eshelman, Judith Setla, Laura Kennedy, Emily Hon, and Aleksa Basara. “Environmental design for end-of-life care: An integrative review on improving the quality of life and managing symptoms for patients in institutional settings.” Journal of pain and symptom management 55, no. 3 (2018): 1018-1034.
* (optional) Rowlands, Julie, and Simon Noble. “How does the environment impact on the quality of life of advanced cancer patients? A qualitative study with implications for ward design.” Palliative medicine 22, no. 6 (2008): 768-774.
February 7: Dementia and Alzheimers (slides)
February 14: Hard to diagnose diseases (slides)
February 21: Chronic disease: Heart disease, stroke, diabetes (slides)
February 28: Pre- and post-care patient interactions, adherence, managed care (slides)
March 6: Wellness Plans (slides)
March 20: Mental health (slides)
March 27: Women’s Health (slides)
April 3: Nursing and staffing (slides)
* West, Colin P., Tait D. Shanafelt, and Joseph C. Kolars. “Quality of life, burnout, educational debt, and medical knowledge among internal medicine residents.” Jama 306, no. 9 (2011): 952-960.
April 10: Obesity (slides)
* Cutler, David M., Edward L. Glaeser, and Jesse M. Shapiro. “Why have Americans become more obese?.” Journal of Economic perspectives 17, no. 3 (2003): 93-118.
April 17: Population health (slides)
April 24: Student health (slides)