HLT POL 416Improving Systems
Health Policy and Management · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
(Formerly numbered 215A.) Management and operations of individual units and organizations of American health-care system. Exploration of ways in which they actually function and how to ensure their quality and effectiveness. Examination of roles, activities, and daily challenges of managers and how these challenges can best be met on day-to-day basis. Emphasis on applied practice with intent being improvement of student managerial competencies and on development of skills to manage operational processes in delivery of health services, primarily directed to improving effectiveness, efficiency, performance, and quality of health-care services. Quality improvement (QI) techniques such as performance measurement, rapid cycle testing, breakthrough series, and interorganizational collaboration benefit quality and productivity.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Fall 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.
HLT POL 416
- HLT POL 220Research Methods for Improvement/Implementation Science
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.