OAD 22564 HEALTH CARE AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOR

Analytic understanding of organizational, professional, and interpersonal behavior that characterizes contemporary health care organizations. Topics include authority relations in health care settings, models of illness behavior and health services utilization, impact of organizational structure on employee and client attitudes and behavior, and the culture of professional medicine in relation to patient care. Prerequisites: PSY 12053 Principles of Psychology, SOC 10453 Introduction to Sociology.