HLT POL 225AHealth Services Research Design
Health Policy and Management · 6 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Limited to departmental MS and PhD students. Introduction to scope of health services research, conceptualization and design of health services research, choice and assessment of measures for such research, and methods for studies involving direct data collection. Broad overview to conducting health services research, alternative research paradigms, building conceptual models of what students are trying to study, designing and testing measures, and direct data collection issues of survey and questionnaire design, sampling, community engagement, and research ethics.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
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.
HLT POL 225A
- HLT POL 224Proposal Writing for Health Services Research
- HLT POL 225BHealth Services Research Design
2 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 3 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.