Health Management & Policy
Health analytics applies data insights within the healthcare industry to improve patient outcomes, optimize healthcare services and inform healthcare policies.
The Health Analytics minor is geared towards students who would like to build data and analytic skills as part of their health or health-related studies. Students learn the data and analytic ecosystem within organizations and society.
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Health Analytics applies data insights within the healthcare industry to improve patient outcomes, optimize healthcare services and inform healthcare policies. This important and quickly growing field supports professionals who improve results, enhance services and lower costs in healthcare related industries and organizations.
This minor is geared towards students who would like to build data and analytic skills as part of their health or health-related studies. Students learn the data and analytic ecosystem within organizations and society. Our many elective options allow you to customize your learning to your specific interests, whether you want to work in a data programming environment, analyze data consumption or focus on data translation. The minor assumes preparation in an undergraduate statistics class.
The objective of this minor is to provide a basic background in analytics for those who are pursuing majors in health or health related fields but would like a more data and analytic rich skills set. The minor will take an application-oriented focus and is intended for those students interested in more exposure to the underlying data related components of data visualization, the data and analytic ecosystem within organizations and society, and the use and implications for use of health analytics. The minor assumes preparation in an undergraduate statistics class.
The minor is meant to allow students to both have a core related to health analytics, but also customize their approach along the continuum of skills via the use of the two electives. For example, students wishing to become more hands on data practitioners and thus facile with the programming environment can do that, whereas students who wish to be more focused on data consumption or data translation for change can elect for that option.
Academic policies related to Minors.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Required Courses | ||
| HMP 401 | United States Health Care Systems | 4 |
| HMP 512 | Using Data to Improve Human Health | 4 |
| HMP 703 | Translation of Health Data | 4 |
| Electives | ||
| Select two courses from the following: | 8 | |
ADMN 410 | Management Information Systems | |
CS 408 | Living in a Networked World: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly | |
CS 417 | From Programs to Computer Science | |
CS 501 | Professional Ethics and Communication in Technology-related Fields | |
DATA 557 | Introduction to Data Science and Analytics | |
DS 673 | Database Management | |
DS 662 | Programming for Business | |
HMP 501 | Epidemiology and Community Medicine | |
HMP 702 | Programming in Healthcare Environments | |
HMP 711 | Introduction to Healthcare Operations Analytics | |
HMP 712 | Healthcare Operations Management | |
IT 403 | Introduction to Internet Technologies | |
MATH 645 | Linear Algebra for Applications | |
| Total Credits | 20 | |
The Health Management and Policy department welcomes applications for admission from current UNH students who wish to transfer from other degree programs at UNH, however, HMP is not accepting applications from other institutions. There are several Discovery, University, and Health Management and Policy introduction courses that are appropriate for students who are interested in, but not yet committed to the major.