Introduction to the US Healthcare System

Description from DukeHub

This course is designed to introduce students from multiple disciplines to the fundamental characteristics of health care systems; the organization, financing, and delivery of services in the US health care system; the role of prevention and other non-medical factors in population health outcomes; key management and policy issues in contemporary health systems; and public policy and its impact on the prospects for improvement health systems and population health.

Skills

• policy and lawdescription: "policy" and 1 more

AI-resilient: 1 of 5 1/5

• No: Physical, lab or field work
• No: Live work with people
• ✓Yes: Judgment someone is accountable for · "policy"
• No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
• No: Small, in-person format

The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works

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• Introduction to Statistical Programming for Population Health Sciences II POPHS 704
• Research Methods II: Evidence, Methods, and Decision Making in Population Health POPHS 708
• Professional Development II POPHS 710
• Population Health Capstone POPHS 752
• Data for Population Health POPHS 816

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