Spring 2005 Course Description
Political Economy
Description: Organizing the Health Sector: The Role of Non-Profits. This course will examine the role of non-profit activity in the health sector in financing, providing, and advocating for health services. It will be of a necessity also to examine the role of for profit entities and government programs and subsidies in many of the same areas.
The requirements will include doing the readings, presentation of several briefings or exercises and a paper.
The objective of the course will be to provide the students with an understanding of how the health sector is organized and why, as well as an appreciation of how non-profits function in many different ways in that sector. We will use a number of articles from Elizabeth Boris and C. Eugene Steurle, Non Profits and Government: Collaboration and Conflict, Urban Institute Press, 1999.
The textbook will be available at the Co-op East Bookstore; other readings will be on electronic reserves.
- Elizabeth Boris and C. Eugene Steurle, Non Profits and Government: Collaboration and Conflict, Urban Institute Press, 1999.
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