Library Course Assessments for New Faculty of Health Sciences Graduate Courses

GLOH 615 | GLOH 635
HSCI 893 | HSCI 894 | PPH 898
Total Cost

NOTE: These courses were orignally proposed and assessed under the numbers listed above, but subsequently renumbered to 815 and 835 without substantial changes.

Introduction

This is the Library’s assessment for New Faculty of Health Sciences courses GLOH 604, GLOH 635, HSCI 893, HSCI 894, and PPH 898.

No additional resources will be required for the following courses:

HSCI 893 Directed studies in Health Sciences
HSCI 894 Directed Studies in Health Sciences
PPH 898 Practicum Report Completion

GLOH 615 Health policy making in global context

This course will first be offered in the Spring of 2007 and annually thereafter with an initial estimated enrollment of 25 students. It will be a core course for the new Master of Global Health degree.

Monographs

The existing SFU Library book collection was assessed using Library of Congress subject headings for the topics covered for these courses. Related subject headings and our holdings are listed below:

health planning 30
health services administration 67
medical policy 62
globalization - health aspects 16

The library is actively collecting monographs in these areas.

Journals

The Library has current subscriptions to the following titles that will provide useful material for this course:

Evidence based healthcare
Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy
Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy
Health policy and planning
International journal for quality in health care
Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMP
Value in Health

Direct subscriptions will need to be acquired for the following titles:

Health affairs $310
Journal of public health policy $220
Journal of health and social policy $687

Journal titles listed are suggested titles. Faculty for these courses will be asked to select the most appropriate titles from this list and/or suggest titles not listed here.

Estimated serials costs for this course: $1,217
Back files for all of the above titles would also need to be purchased with an estimated one-time fee of $1,500.

Total library costs for this course:
ongoing:
journals: $1,217
total ongoing costs: $1,217

one-time:
journal backfiles: $1,500
total one-time costs: $1,500

GLOH 635 Program planning and evaluation in global health

This course will first be offered in the Spring of 2007 and annually thereafter with an initial estimated enrollment of 25 students. It is proposed to be a core course for the new Master of Global Health degree.

Monographs

The existing SFU Library book collection was assessed using Library of Congress subject headings for the topics covered for these courses. Related subject headings and our holdings are listed below:

public health evaluation 9
health planning 30
health promotion 79
health promotion evaluation 5
health services administration 67

The library is collecting monographs in these areas.

Journals

The Library has current subscriptions to the following titles that will provide useful material for this course:

Evaluation and program planning
Evaluation and the Health Professions
Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy
Health policy and planning.
Health promotion international
The international journal of health planning and management
International journal of health services
Medical care research and review

Direct subscriptions will need to be acquired for the following titles:

Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation $178

Journal titles listed are suggested titles. Faculty for these courses will be asked to select the most appropriate titles from this list and/or suggest titles not listed here.

Estimated serials costs for this course: $178
Back files for all of the above titles would also need to be purchased with an estimated one-time fee of $
150

Total library costs for this course:
ongoing:
journals: $178
total ongoing costs: $178

one-time:
journal backfiles: $150
total one-time costs: $150

Overall total for these Health Sciences Courses:

one-time funds: $1,650
ongoing funds: $1,395