Program & Policy Evaluation
1 credit
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Full course description
Program and Policy Evaluation emphasizes the importance and relevance of policy analysis to the policy process. Learners will explore environmental factors that affect policy analysis and will discover how to define a policy problem and options. There will be opportunities to explore and gather information about the policy problem and options, to pull the information all together to identify the best option or options and to present findings.
Course Objectives
At the completion of this course, learners will be able to:
- Apply knowledge of policy structure and process to examine significant political healthcare issues.
- Discuss how major stakeholders at multiple levels of government, including advocacy groups, view significant political healthcare issues.
- Examine and understand the environment of the current political and policy perspectives on a relevant healthcare problem.
- Select a policy analysis framework to examine a healthcare problem occurring at the state, federal or institutional level.
- Select a policy process framework to examine a healthcare problem requiring an interdisciplinary approach.
- Identify an evidence-based approach to develop a policy brief for decision makers.
- Recognize how e-tools, such as social media, serve as an approach to consensus building in the policy process.
Course Information
Please note that this course includes three one-hour synchronous sessions. Learners must attend two live sessions to complete the course, but they are encouraged to attend all three.
- Instructor: Tracy Zvenyach, PhD, MS, RN
- Delivery Method: Instructor-Led
- Cost: $50 | Free for Members
- Pathway: Public Policy & Legislation
- Program Credit: 1.0
- Contact Hours: 23.0