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Health Care Management and Policy

Faculty members of Div. of Health Care Management and Policy carry out research about health care issues for policy analysis and the specialized
research of management. This division consists of seven majors: health economics, health sociology, health and health policy, health economics
and policy, community health promotion, public health gerontology, and health care organization and management.

Major in Health Economics
[Research about health care system components, such as manpower and material resources, ideologies and social values, major actors, and
political-economic and social-cultural factors]
- Analysis of the terms and conditions that inhibit the growth of medical analysis and health care spending
- Estimation of health risks with economic loss
- Research for the equitable distribution of resources affecting the poor

Major in Health Sociology
[Study and analysis to understand social interactions in terms of health and disease parameters]
- Deals with health-related issues from the viewpoint of social theory
- An understanding of the social dimensions of health affairs and medical practices
- Provides the student with basic health survey methods and theoretical schemes for analyzing the social relations embedded in health care

Major in Health and Health Policy
[Analysis and evaluation of health care policies that affect the integrity of medicine, pharmacy, and epidemiologic knowledge]
- Research on the basic concepts and value of health care policies, decision-making, policy development, analysis and evaluation
- Foster successful policy implementation and analysis capabilities that improve the health of community residents to promote with the most
efficient methods

Major in Health Economics and Policy (Political Economy)
[The approach of economics and political science to study health policy and health systems]
- Domestic health care system design, analysis and evaluation from a political and economic perspective
- Comparative analysis of international health care policies and systems
- Integrates economics and political science to analyze and provide policy options for health policy and systems of both developed and low-
income countries

Major in Community Health Promotion
[Study of community participation for a comprehensive and overall health promotion and with an emphasis on cooperation]
- Manage a multi-level health promotion planning process with the characteristics and needs of social ecological modeling for the community
- Community-based participatory approaches utilizing assessment and qualitative research methods

Major in Health Services Research & Gerontology
[Study of population aging and problems related to health and health care from the perspective of health]
- An emerging field that studies aging from the perspective of public health
- Analysis of changes in the health and social environment of aging associated with different series
- Development of innovative health care services based on a new paradigm for health
- Research on a performance evaluation system and an efficient and sustainable health system

Major in Health Care Organization and Health Communication
[Study of the organization and causes of the phenomena related to health care]
[Risk research on the health of individuals and communities and the mechanisms of environmental risk response]
- Research on health, medical governance, and management issues based on organizations and theories of organization behavior
- Study of a variety of health and environmental risk-related phenomena based on risk perception and communication theories
- Development an improved health management care for individuals and communities by means of health literacy


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