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Health care is undergoing fundamental change from solely treating acute illness to focusing on a person’s whole needs for wellness—where physical health, mental health and social supports are explored—involving a team of health care professionals, including doctors, nurses, social workers, mental health specialists and others. In this new model, health managers, information specialists and policy experts are fundamentally important to leading the change and York’s Health Studies program prepares students for careers in these dynamic fields.

Are you interested in health but are not sure you want to be a doctor or a nurse? Did you know that non-clinical health professions are among the fastest growing occupations in Canada? Did you know that doctors and nurses rely upon health managers, information specialists and policy experts to ensure that our health care system serves our needs and is sustainable? That’s because health managers oversee systems to ensure the quality of care and services for patients, information specialists provide and analyze data that hospital executives rely upon to make decisions, and policy specialists advise governments on the best ways to meet patient and broader societal needs today and in the future.

Careers available to graduates with a Bachelor of Health Studies (includes those in the Specialized Honours Health Informatics, Health Management, and Health Policy, or the Honours in Health Studies) in non-clinical areas including health policy research and consulting, business management, and information analysts and consultants, are among Toronto's Top Jobs for salary and job openings according to the Toronto Star (Feb 13, 2020).

Health Management

Bachelor of Health Studies (BHS)

Specialized Honours

With a growing population and demand for more health services, one of the fastest growing professions is that of health care manager. In the health management program, students learn about the health system from an organizational perspective through courses that cover health management, leadership and decision-making, measuring health system performance, health finance, and integrated health systems.

Health Informatics

Bachelor of Health Studies (BHS)

Specialized Honours

Computers, networks, mobile technology and apps are rapidly changing health and health care – everything from how we communicate with our health care providers, to how we get information, to how health care professionals collect, share and use electronic information that directly affects our health. Students learn how to analyze and evaluate information crucial to health care decision-making.

Health Policy

Bachelor of Health Studies (BHS)

Specialized Honours

Political, economic, cultural, and environmental considerations all factor into how health care decisions are made. In this program, students explore health care decision-making and the role of both government and non-government organizations. Important issues are covered, including the public/private mix in health care, integrated health systems, international health systems, the influence of stakeholder groups such as the pharmaceutical industry and more.

Possible Career Paths:

Health Care Manager
Health Systems Planner
Quality Performance Manager
Information Coordinator
Project Manager
Health Policy Researcher
Data Analyst
Health Finance Manager
Health Information Specialist
Systems Designer
Systems Integration Specialist
Software Developer
Health Human Resources Manager
Health Policy Advisor/Analyst
Community Health Worker
Health Care Consultant
Health Writer/Communications Professional
Doctor*
Nurse*
Lawyer*
Professor*
Teacher*

*with further postgraduate training