Overview
Description
This course presents the fundamentals of public health finance. Areas of study cover aspects related to planning, operating, and sustaining viable public health programs or departments. Topics include accounting principles, budgeting, financial reporting, funding streams, economic prevention and effectiveness, and sustainable public health program management. Students will become familiar with public health funding sources as well as planning, monitoring, controlling, and reporting financial status.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall, Spring, and Summer
Terms
fall, spring, summer
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- review the strategic planning processes and the relationship to budget formulation and sustainability planning.
- discuss economic prevention effectiveness and economic evaluation as they relate to the practice of public health.
- integrate knowledge of the sustainable public health program management with financial management practice.
- propose a plan for a sustainable public health program using strategic management processes.