Health Care Policy and Delivery
Requirements
Description
Expand your career opportunities and enhance your expertise in health care systems by developing a comprehensive understanding of business, administration, leadership and policy within health care settings.
The health care policy and delivery concentration offers students a comprehensive overview of key principles in health systems, including management, economics and program oversight within health care settings.
The curriculum emphasizes the business of medicine, administration, leadership and policy. Students can choose to take an internship course to further apply and integrate these core concepts.
Program learning outcomes
Program learning outcomes identify what a student will learn or be able to do upon completion of their program. This program has the following program outcomes:
- Implement effective management approaches to improve processes to positively impact patients and populations.
- Analyze how policy and economics influence professional health service delivery
Requirements
- Students must complete a minimum of 18 credit hours including 12 of upper-division hours for this concentration.
- All courses must be completed with a grade of “C” (2.00) or higher.
- In order to enroll in HCD 402 and complete the concentration, students must first complete either ECN 212 or HCD 201.
- Incompatible concentrations: Wellness Foundations, Nutrition and Healthy Living, Food and Nutrition Management, Human Nutrition
- Note: Prerequisite courses may be needed in order to complete the requirements of this concentration.
Required courses (15 credit hours)
HCD 302 Health Care Management
HCD 330 Health Care Systems in the U.S.
HCD 332 Population Health Policy and Legislation
HCD 402 Health Economics
HCD 403 Process Engineering
Elective (3 credit hours)
HCD 304: Health Care Finance
HCD 404: Advanced Concepts in Health Care Administration and Policy
HCD 484 Internship
MED 450 Leadership and Professionalism
PAF 311 Leadership and Change
PAF 460 Public Service Ethics
PBH 422 Health Disparities and Access to Health
YEAR
2025-26
CAMPUS
Downtown Phoenix
ADVISING
Interdisciplinary Studies Advising
cisa.asu.edu/advising
All appointments:
480-965-4464
Downtown Phoenix
Arizona Center, Suite 380
Polytechnic
Santa Catalina Hall
Tempe
Urban Systems Engineering
Online
480-965-4464
DARS CODE
NHHCPDEMPH
COLLEGE/SCHOOL
College of Health Solutions
CONCENTRATION CONTACT
602-496-3300
chs@asu.edu
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