PARA 1210 Legal and Policy Issues in Healthcare (3-0-3)

This course provides an overview of the legal issues involved in the delivery of healthcare and the issues relating to Elder Law. Students will recognize the fundamentals of the healthcare treatment relationship, liability issues, patient care decisions, and the human condition of sickness. They will explore the complexities of healthcare financing, healthcare access, governmental regulations, and privacy issues. Topics also include access to care, informed consent, patient care decisions, the doctor-patient relationship, end-of-life decision making, legal problems of the elderly, law and mental health, AIDS and the law, and the privatization of healthcare facilities.

Program Fee: $25

Offered Summer during odd-numbered years

Prerequisite

Prerequisite/Corequisite: PARA 1100

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