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Introduction to Health Care Advocacy

PB HLTH X478

6052395
Delivery Options Online
Consumers are increasingly turning to health care advocates for assistance with a number of health-related issues, including new diagnoses, decision-making, placement issues, insurance and billing problems, and community resources. Get an overview of the skills needed to be an effective advocate. The course is open to medical professionals and anyone who would like to work as a health care advocate.

Course Outline

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Course Objectives

  • Define the profession of health care advocacy.
  • Be able to act as a health care advocate for all ages.
  • Distinguish your areas of expertise in health care advocacy and determine which skills and type of advocacy are required in different situations.
  • Explain and successfully apply Guiding Principles 1–7 of the National Association of Healthcare Advocacy Consultants’ Code of Ethics.
  • Demonstrate intermediate-level skills of health care advocacy.
  • Recognize how your clients’ diversity affects the medical system’s ability to respond to clients.
  • Know how to communicate in a crisis.
  • Be able to translate assessment information into an effective client plan.
  • Understand the four steps of informed consent.
  • Design a pediatric health care advocacy assessment.
  • Demonstrate the ability to research a disease and present accurate general information to a client about their disease condition.

What You Learn

  • Definition of health care advocacy
  • Five different types of health care advocacy
  • History of the health care advocacy movement
  • Guiding Principles 1–7 of the National Association of Healthcare Advocacy Consultants’ Code of Ethics
  • Different thinking styles among health care stakeholders: medical teams, consumers, insurers and administrators
  • Clients’ diversity
  • Interventions
  • Communication in a crisis
  • Nine areas of assessment in a health care advocacy initial interview
  • Development of an effective client plan
  • Community resources for clients, both online and in the immediate community
  • Components of HIPAA that could affect health care advocates
  • Thomas Kilmann Model of Conflict Resolution
  • Four steps of informed consent
  • How to find reliable medical information on the Internet
  • Continuum of care
  • Discharge planning and utilization review
  • Differences in the continuum of care for children and for adults
  • Pediatric advocacy, including assessment, support of the families and how to integrate your services into pediatric care
  • Working with adults, seniors and ultra-seniors
  • Complex care
  • Hospice Insurance, ACA and care coordination
  • Clinical trials
  • Concepts of palliative care and hospice and how they interact with the concept of futility
  • NAHAC best practices and ethics

How You Learn

  • Online lectures
  • Reading assignments
  • Written assignments, including quizzes
  • Online discussion forum
  • Case study
  • Proctored final exam
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Sections

Section 027

Start Anytime

Type: Online, Start Anytime

Instructor:

  • Lucinda Bazile

Cost: $495.00

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Type Online, Start Anytime

Dates
Start Now, you have 180 days to complete this course once enrolled.

Delivery Options

Online

Available for Credit

2 semester units

Section Notes

Online, enroll anytime. This continuous enrollment course begins when you enroll. You have a minimum of 60 days and a maximum of 180 days to complete the course.

Students must score 70% or more on the final exam to pass this course.

Section Materials

  • Textbook

    (Mandatory)

    The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman

    © 2012 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0374533407 Textbook ISBN: 9780374533403
  • Textbook

    (Mandatory)

    How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman

    © 2008 Mariner Books ISBN 0547053649 Textbook ISBN: 9780547053646
  • Textbook

    (Mandatory)

    Every Patient Tells A Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis by Lisa Sanders

    © 2010 Random House ISBN 0767922476 Textbook ISBN: 9780767922470

Spring enrollment opens on October 17!

This course applies to the following programs:

Certificate Program in Health Advocacy

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Required Courses

  • Introduction to Health Care Advocacy
  • Families and Health Care Advocacy
  • Overview of Health Care Insurance Options
  • Navigating the Health Care System
  • Ethical and Legal Issues in Health Care
  • Evaluating Health Information for Health Care Communication and Decision Making
  • Health Care Advocacy and the Role of Cultural Diversity
  • Case Seminar on Health Care Advocacy Through the Lifespan

Learn More About this Program

Post-Baccalaureate Health Professions Program

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Required Courses

  • Health Careers Seminar I
  • Health Careers Seminar II: The Application Process
  • Health Careers Seminar II: Developing Your Personal Statement
  • Health Careers Seminar II: Interviewing Successfully

Basic Biology Electives

  • General Biology I
  • General Biology Laboratory I
  • General Biology II
  • General Biology Laboratory II
  • Introduction to Human Physiology

Upper-Division Biology Courses

  • Biochemistry
  • Human Physiology Laboratory
  • Mammalian Systemic Physiology
  • General Human Anatomy
  • Human Anatomy Laboratory
  • Medical Microbiology
  • Microbiology Laboratory
  • Introduction to Biostatistics
  • Biology of Aging
  • The Biology of Human Cancer
  • Cell Biology
  • Current Topics in the Biosciences
  • Developmental Biology
  • Endocrinology
  • Exercise Physiology
  • Genetics
  • Genomic Medicine
  • Hematology
  • Virtual Hematology Laboratory
  • Human Nutrition
  • Immunology
  • Neuroscience
  • Physiology of the Cardiac and Respiratory Systems
  • Principles of Molecular Biology
  • Molecular Cell Biology
  • Introduction to Parasitology
  • Pathophysiology
  • Pharmacology
  • Principles of Infectious Diseases and Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • Stem Cell Biology, Research and Discovery
  • Principles of Toxicology
  • Virology
  • CRISPR Genome Editing: From Biology to Technology
  • Medical Terminology

Chemistry Electives

  • Biochemistry
  • General Chemistry I
  • General Chemistry Laboratory I
  • General Chemistry II
  • General Chemistry Laboratory II
  • Organic Chemistry I
  • Organic Chemistry Laboratory I
  • Organic Chemistry II
  • Organic Chemistry Laboratory II
  • Quantitative Analysis: Applications in Clinical Chemistry

Physics Electives

  • Physics I
  • Physics Laboratory I
  • Physics II
  • Physics Laboratory II

Math Electives

  • Analytic Geometry and Calculus
  • Introduction to Biostatistics
  • Introduction to Statistics

Other Electives

  • Spanish for Medical Professionals
  • Principles of Epidemiology
  • Mandarin for Medical Professionals
  • Ethical and Legal Issues in Health Care
  • Introduction to Health Care Advocacy
  • Developmental Psychology Across the Lifespan
  • Abnormal Psychology
  • Epidemiology

Test Preparation Courses

  • Post-Bacc MCAT Prep
  • Post-Bacc GRE Prep
  • Post-Bacc DAT Prep
  • Post-Bacc OAT Prep
  • Post-Bacc PCAT Prep

Learn More About this Program

Notes

Departmental contact: extension-publichealth@berkeley.edu | (510) 642-1061

Instructional Types

Live Online
Live Online courses provide an interactive learning experience with scheduled synchronous online sessions held via Zoom video conferencing (Pacific Time). Learn more about the Live Online format.
Online, Start Anytime
Continuous enrollment course begins when you enroll. You have a minimum of 90 days and a maximum of 180 days to complete the course.
Online, Fixed Date
Enroll in this course by its start date and complete it by its specified end date. There are no live sessions, but plenty of opportunities to collaborate with your classmates and instructor.
Classroom
Take classes in-person at one of our buildings or partner locations.

English Language Proficiency Requirements

All of our courses are taught in English. If English is not your first language, please use the following test scores as guides in order to be successful:

  • TOEFL: 90
  • IELTS Academic Format: 7
  • DAAD: C1
  • TEM-4 or TEM-8: Level 70
  • Duolingo: 115

Note: You do not need to submit test scores.

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Lucinda Bazile

Lucinda Bazile, MPH is currently Deputy Director with LifeLong Medical Care and has held a variety of positions with the federally qualified health center (FQHC) in Berkeley including Human Resources Director, Director of Policy and Special Projects and Regional Director for Contra Costa County Health Center Services. She has more than 30 years of experience in community health center management, health policy and equity work with diverse communities.

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