Nov 22, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2024-25
HLTH 4445 - Health Care Law and Ethics
Examines the legal and ethical issues regarding the delivery of health care services. Considers the roles and rights of the key stakeholders in the U.S. health care system: patients, providers, government, and payers.
Requisites: HLTH 3350
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS: Bridge: Ethics and Reasoning
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to analyze and critically assess legal and ethical cases in health care by identifying the relevant facts, issues, holdings, and precedents.
- Students will be able to define various types of law (statutory, regulatory/administrative, and common law).
- Students will be able to describe the relationship between health care decisions and ethical issues in decision making, including making connections to ethical principles and perspectives.
- Students will be able to explain the legal rights and obligations of health care patients, providers, and payers with respect to torts, contracts, criminal law, and professional/corporate liability.
- Students will be able to identify state and federal legal structures related to social and public health in the United States.
- Students will be able to evaluate alternative ethical perspectives within a decision making situation within the context of the health care field.
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