This instructor's resource guide, one in a series of products from a project to develop an associate degree program for paraprofessional rural family health promoters, deals with teaching a course in health care organization and issues. Covered in the first section of the guide are the role of health care organization and health issues in rural health promotional training, general objectives and recommendations for instructors, and references and suggested course texts. A series of unit overviews dealing with the following topics is provided: a definition of health, the structure and function of the U.S. health care system, the financing of health, consumerism in health, ethics and issues in health care, and health care in the future. Each unit contains general and specific objectives, a course outline, and instructional notes. Concluding the guide are a discussion of methods and materials for student evaluation and a description of other materials in the Family Home Health Training Program series. (MN)