Health Administration (HADM) 339
Organization of the Canadian Health Care System

This version of HADM 339 closed. To current version.

Delivery modes: Individualized study or grouped study
Credits: 3 - Applied Studies
Prerequisite: None
Centre: Centre for State and Legal Studies
Challenge for Credit: HADM 339 has a Challenge for Credit option

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Overview

As Canadians, we all know something about the Canadian health care system. We gain much of our knowledge through personal experience, using a number of health care services through our lifetimes. It is also unlikely that our friends and family members have entirely escaped the need for health care. Knowledge can also be gained by working in the health care system, or by studying various health-related topics. Finally, most of us have read or heard media reports on development in the Canadian health care system.

It is important, then, to start this course with some reassurance about our own knowledge of the Canadian health care system. At the same time, we must recognize that our knowledge may be limited to what we have experienced, observed, or heard. This course is designed to build on students' current understanding of the Canadian health care system, through discussions of how the system came about, what it consists of now, and how it is changing.

Outline

HADM 339 is divided into nine units:

  • Unit 1 The History of the Canadian Health Care System
  • Unit 2 The Components of the Canadian Health Care System
  • Unit 3 Who Uses the Health Care System for Physical Reasons?
  • Unit 4 Who Uses the Health Care System for Cognitive (Mental) Reasons?
  • Unit 5 Health, Not Illness
  • Unit 6 Human Resources, Who Provides Health Care?
  • Unit 7 Health Care Costs and Financing
  • Unit 8 Health Care Controls and Safeguards
  • Unit 9 Challenges and Threats

Evaluation

To receive credit for HADM 339, students must achieve a course composite grade of at least "D" (50 percent), and a mark of at least 50 percent on each examination. The weighting of the course assignments is as follows:

Tutor-marked Exercise 1
(after Unit 2)		 Mid-term Exam
(after Unit 4)		 Tutor-marked Exercise 2
(after Unit 7)		 Final Exam
(after Unit 9)		 Total
15% 35% 15% 35% 100%

Course Materials

Textbooks

Hibberd, J. & Smith, D. (1999). Nursing management in Canada (2nd ed.). Toronto: W.B. Saunders.

Wilson, D. (Ed.) (1995). The Canadian health care system. Edmonton: Author.

Other Material

The course materials include a study guide, student manual, and a reading file.

Athabasca University reserves the right to amend course outlines occasionally and without notice.
Courses offered by other delivery methods may vary from their individualized-study counterparts.

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