University of Rochester

This major has 13 required courses and one pre-requisite course. The health policy major leads to a bachelor of arts degree and satisfies the social sciences requirement of the Rochester Curriculum.

Key goals for this major:

• Understand health policy as it relates to the organization, financing, and provision of health care in the US, including its history
• Demonstrate how the principles of statistics, economics, and political science apply to health policy
• Understand the current situation relating to population health (including environmental health), private insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, long-term care, and mental health at the federal, state, and local levels, both public and private
• Understand how to apply the principles of health policy analysis to population health (including environmental health), private insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, long-term care, and mental health at the federal, state, and local levels, both public and private