Health system managers require appropriate knowledge, competencies, and attitudes to confront the challenges facing the health of modern communities. Acquisition of management competencies can best occur by application of extensive knowledge of the theoretical principles that underlie organizational behavior and the systems, structure, and processes that characterize modern health services. This unit forms the knowledge and competency basis for health managers and lays the groundwork for more advanced education in the leadership role of health executives. This course is designed to introduce students to the basic concepts of Health care management and planning. Health Care Management provides a framework for addressing management problems in health care organizations. Students throughout the course will learn to provide students fundamental characteristics of health care systems; the organization, financing, and delivery of services, the role of prevention and other non-medical factors in population health outcomes; key management and policy issues in contemporary health systems; and the process of public policy development and its impact on the prospects for health system improvement.