HLT POL 201Health Systems Organization and Financing
Health Policy and Management · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Limited to Master of Public Health students. Introduction to health policy and management focusing on basic concepts underlying health-care organization, finance, and policy with a focus on health systems. 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, health equity, health policy processes, role of federal, state and local government in health policy and regulation, and current landscape of health-policy reform.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Spring 2026
- Winter 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.