UK College of Public Health - Department of Health Services Management

The Department of Health Services Management works to improve the health of populations by preparing students for administrative and leadership positions in public health systems. Coursework encompasses public health services and policy as well as management concepts and techniques.

Department researchers focus on improving the quality, availability, and effectiveness of public health and health care systems. Investigations aim to identify and address threats to population health in communities, nationally, and internationally.

Graduates have pursued careers in a variety of settings including government agencies, health systems, non-governmental organizations, and academia. Clinicians and other health professionals concentrating in health services management have assumed positions of leadership in both public and private sector health care.

Core Faculty

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Dr. Julia Costich	Dr. Scott Hankins	Dr. Torrie Harris	Dr. Raymond Hill

Dr. James Holsinger, Jr.	Dr. Carol Ireson	Dr. Andrew O. Johnson	Dr. Dana Patton

Dr. William Pfefifle	Dr. Martha Riddell	Dr. Douglas Scutchfield	Dr. Sarah Wackerbarth

Dr.John Williams

Extended Faculty

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CPH241 Health/Medical Care Delivery Systems (3)

Undergraduate Course (not eligible for graduate credit)

CPH635 Public Health Finance and Accounting (3)

Introduces the use of management accounting techniques to decision making in health care organizations. Lectures, problems and cases will be used to provide an opportunity to focus on the various types of health care providers.

CPH650 Management of Public Health Organizations (3)

This course teaches the theories and practice of administration as they are applied in public health settings. It addresses knowledge and applications of the functions of public health management and their relationship to organizational effectiveness. Prereq: enrollment in MPH program or consent of an instructor.

CPH652 Finance Management for Health Care Delivery/Public Health Organization (3)

This course teaches the theories and practice of administration as they are applied in public health settings. It addresses knowledge and applications of the functions of public health management and their relationship to organizational effectiveness. Prereq: enrollment in MPH program or consent of an instructor.

CPH653 Public Health Law and Policy (3)

Introductory course for non-lawyers in selected aspects of the law relating to public health and policy. Prereq: Enrollment in a Public Health degree program or consent of instructor.

CPH662 Public Health Response to Terrorism, Disasters and Emergencies (3)

This course will focus on the public health concepts, history, methods, planning and response preparedness to weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, natural and human-made disasters, and other health emergencies. Prereq: enrollment in a Public Health degree program or consent of instructor.

CPH663 Public Health Practice and Administration (3)

This course is to be a practical application of the principles of health care organization to public health at the national, state and local levels. Prereq: enrollment in MPH program or consent of an instructor.

CPH758 Special Topics in Health Services Management: (Subtitle required)

This course will engage students in readings, projects, lectures, and/or discussions to address current topics of special interest or concerns. Prereq: enrollment in a Public Health degree program or consent of an instructor.

Quality Improvement in Healthcare (3): This course introduces the concepts and systems principles, thinking, and dynamic complexity in healthcare organizations.
International Public Health (3): Course material and visiting speakers present and analyze major issues in international health, identify and compare health systems in developed and developing countries, and explore emerging global health issues.
Strategic Planning and Evidence-Based decision making(3): Topics include basic strategic planning theory, the process of strategic plan development, specific methods of analysis including environmental and organizational analysis and appropriate analytical techniques, decision theory and analysis. Several health care trends such as restructuring, innovation in health care delivery and financing and performance measurements will be illustrated through case analysis in public health settings.
Leadership in Public Health (3): This course emphasizes the practical application of the theories and principles of leadership. I addition to focusing on one’s personal leadership development, it also includes the integration of the concepts of servant and shared leadership for promoting change in public forums and decision-making arenas. Case studies and interviews of public officials serve as a basis for working with today’s organizations and communities for the good of the public’s health.
Public Health Preparedness Planning(3): The Public Health Preparedness planning seminar will address issues of preparing for a variety of public health events, and how common planning activities can be used to prepare for a variety of unplanned events. The course will include major incidents such as bioterrorism and pandemics, but will emphasize the more common occurrences that confront health providers and the communities they serve. Specific tools such as contingency and multiple scenario planning, priority setting, surge capacity, interoperability, legal and ethical considerations, and emergency plans will be addressed, and field trips and tabletop exercises are anticipated.

CPH759 Independent Studies in Health Services Management: (Subtitle required) (1-3)

Designed for advance students with research or special study interest in Health Services Management. Students are under guidance and confer individually with faculty. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 semester hours. Prereq: Enrollment in a Public Health degree program or consent of an instructor.

CPH901 Public Health Doctoral Professional Colloquium (1)

The Public Health Doctoral Professional Colloquium is a one hour seminar course designed as the integrative introduction, consideration, and capstone for the Doctor of Public Health (Dr.P.H.) degree. The colloquium is designed to link theory and practice, in the five public health core disciplines (epidemiology, environmental health, biostatistics, health enhancement, and management and practice).

CPH950 Well-Managed Public Health Care Organizations (3)

Address effective senior management of public and private organizations focusing upon public health. Effective management processes will be addressed through lectures, readings and case studies applying the concepts to public health organizations.

CPH951 Professional Seminar in Public Health Management and Practice (3)

An advanced course in one of the five content areas of public health. All students enrolling will have completed the prerequisite introductory course at the master’s degree level, and the advance course at the doctoral level. The Professional Seminar in Public Health Management and Practice is designed as the opportunity to link academic work in public health management with application in public health practice, and to prepare the student for a leadership role in public health. This will be accomplished through readings, case studies and exercises, and individual research relevant to the discipline and the profession of public health.

CPH952 Professional Seminar in Advanced Leadership: Theory and Practice (3)

This course provides the opportunity to link academic work in public health leadership with application in public health practice and to prepare the learner for a leadership role in public health. This will be accomplished through readings, case studies, exercises, and individual research relevant to the disciplines of the profession of public health and leadership.

CPH953 Seminar in Ethical and Moral Decision Making (3)

This course provides the opportunity to link academic work in public health decision-making with its application to public health practice and to prepare the learner for the practice of public health decision-making based on ethical and moral principles. This will be accomplished through readings, case studies, exercises, and individual research relevant to the disciplines of the profession of public health decision-making. The period of Nazi Germany 1933-1945 will compose the underlying case study. The seminar will consider in depth the decisions made by Nazi political and military leaders, citizens, religious leaders, concentration camp commanders, guards, and prisoners, physicians, scientists and business leaders. Films will be used extensively in the seminar.

CPH954 Professional Seminar in Public Health: Economics and Finance (3)

This course provides the opportunity to link academic work in public health finance and economics with application in public health practice and to prepare the learner for key leadership roles in public health. This will be accomplished through readings, case studies, exercises, and individual research relevant to the disciplines of the profession of public health finance and economics.

Andrews JL., Pearce KA., Ireson C., Love, M. (2005). Information seeking behaviors of practitioners in a primary care practice-based research network (PBRN)*. Journal of the Medical Library Association. Apr; 93(2): 206-12.

Bunn TL, Costich JF. (Dec. 2006) Identification and characterization of Kentucky self-employed occupational injury fatalities using multiple sources, 1995-2004. Forthcoming, Am J Indus Med.

Costich JF, Tomasczewska L, Fallat ME. (Dec. 2005). Kentuckians support trauma system improvement: the Kentucky Trauma Survey. J Ky Med Assn 103:599-602.

Costich JF, Galvagni N, Fallat ME. (Dec. 2005). Preparing Kentucky’s emergency departments for a comprehensive trauma care system: the Kentucky Hospital Association ED survey. J Ky Med Assn 103; 593-8 Dec. 2005.

Costich JF. (2006) The Perruche case and the wrongful life controversy in France. Health Policy 78(1): 8-16 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2005.08.007

Fallat ME, Costich JF, Pollack SH.(Mar. 2006) The impact of disparities in pediatric trauma on injury prevention initiatives. J Trauma 60(2):462-64.

Hall LM, Ireson CL. (2006) The tie that binds: The importance of communication in a developing coalition. (Manuscript submitted for publication)

Hall LM, Slavova S, Ireson CL. (2006) Hitting the bulls eye-Should surveillance data or community perception guide coalition efforts (Manuscript submitted for publication)

Hall LM; Ireson CL, Slavova S, McKee, SE. (2006). Defining elements of success: a critical pathway of coalition development. (Manuscript under review Health Promotion Practice)

Holsinger JW, Beaton B.(2006) Physician professionalism for a new century. Clin Anat 19 :473-479.

Kenney G, Allison RA, Costich JF, Marton J, McFeeters J. (Winter 2006) The effects of premium increases on enrollment in SCHIP programs: findings from three states. Forthcoming, Inquiry.

Killip SM, Ireson CL, Fleming S, Love M, Katirai W, Sandford K. (2006). Patient safety in after-hours telephone medicine. Family Medicine. (accepted for publication).

Scutchfield FD, Hall LM, Ireson CL. (2005). The public and public health organizations: Issues for community engagement in public health. Health Policy Jun;77(1):76-85.

Grant Title and Funding Source

Citizen’s Values in Health Care

Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky

Lincoln County Health Project

Derby Wright Foundation

Patient Centered Ambulatory Care Measures

National Center for Quality Assurance

Safety in Telephone Medicine

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Health Information Security and Collaborative

Agency for Health Care Research and Quality through Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services

Impact of SCHIP premiums on gaps in coverage

Packard Foundation through the Urban Institute

Barriers to generic drug prescribing. Building Research Infrastructure and Capacity Program

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Evaluation of Kentucky Homeland Security Training

Kentucky Office of Homeland Security

State Planning Grant

Health Resources & Services Administration through Kentcky Office of Rural Health

Medicaid disease management models for rual areas

Health Resources & Services Administration through Council of State Governments

Community Medicine in three Kentucky Communities

Kettering Foundation

Deliberative Politics in Kentucky

Kettering Foundation

Basic Research That Designs and Conducts Studies of the Development of Civic and Professional Networks Experimenting with Deliberative Politics in Kentucky and Studies Related to Community Medicine

Kettering Foundation

Joint Learning Contract with Kettering

Kettering Foundation

Personal Consulting Contract between EKU & UKRF

Eastern Kentucky State University

Data sets and instruments for inclusion in the NLMHSRR database

Library of Medicine

Values Project for the Foundation for a Health Kentucky

Foundation for a Health KY

Structure and Dynamics of Public Health Delivery Systems

University of Arkansas

Public Health Services Research Database Development

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Community-Based Participatory Prevention Research (Community Partnership)

Center for Disease Control and Prevention

Address:

Suite 105 121 Washington Avenuee
Lexington, KY 40536-0003
Phone: 859-218-2094
Fax: 859-257-2821

Chair:

Dr. Julia Field Costich
Phone: 859-218-2026

Support Staff:

Tonya Mcquire
Phone: 859-218-2094

Becky Friend
Phone: 859-218-2058

Related Staff

Erin Louis
Program Manager
Kentucky Public Helath Leadership Institute
Phone: 218-2061

Kara Richardson
Communications Coordinator
Center for Public Health Systems & Services Research
Phone: 218-2289