HLT POL 120Health Care Systems: Structures, Functions, and Policies
Health Policy and Management · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Limited to Public Health majors. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 100. Introduction to health policy and management focusing on basic concepts underlying health care organization, finance, and policy. Topics include development of U.S. health care system, comparisons to international health care systems, trends in health care spending, role of public and private insurance, care delivery, disparities in health status and health care, and current landscape of health policy reform.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.