Health statistics demonstrate that morbidity (sickness) and mortality (death) rates for specific diseases and other health issues (e.g., violence, accidents, homicide) are different for men and women.

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Health statistics demonstrate that morbidity (sickness) and mortality (death) rates for specific diseases and other health issues (e.g., violence, accidents, homicide) are different for men and women. For example, men are diagnosed with and die from specific cancers, such as lung cancer and colon cancer, at higher rates than women do. Women are diagnosed with breast cancer at higher rates than men (though more than 1,000 men each year are diagnosed with breast cancer). While this difference in disease and disorder prevalence and mortality is interesting, it would be useful to know why there are differences between men and women.
Biological differences between men and women in areas such as hormones and immune response certainly can contribute to health differences between the sexes, but in order to fully explore their causes, other variables must be examined. An important area to consider when looking at health and gender is behavior. That is, do men and women behave differently when it comes to health? Health-related behaviors fall into two basic categories: preventative behaviors and direct health-related behaviors. For example, seeing a physician for an annual check-up and health screening, eating well, exercising, and maintaining low stress levels are preventative behaviors. Engaging in high-risk sports and smoking are direct health-related behaviors. Gender differences in health behaviors must be interpreted carefully. For example, frequency of doctor visits—which is higher among women—should not necessarily be interpreted as a reliable indicator of higher morbidity in women, since women tend to engage in more preventative health behaviors.
A second group of variables related to gender differences in health issues is made up of the confounding variables that your text refers to as artifacts. These include physician bias and how the health care system treats men and women. For example, men and women are screened differently, diagnosed differently, and treated differently for many health problems. It also includes differences in socioeconomic status, such as education and income, that correspond to health outcomes.
Lastly, gender differences in social roles may contribute to health differences. Physically demanding careers held more often by men may lead to greater health risks such as job-related injury. On the other hand, women’s traditional role as family caretaker can also lead to health risks such as poor self-care and fatigue.
For this Discussion, you will analyze gender-related differences in physical health for a specific health issue of your choosing. You will not only explore its incidence and causes, but will also share potential strategies to mitigate risk.
To prepare
· Review this week’s Learning Resources, focusing on the gender-related differences and similarities in issues related to health.
· Select a physical health issue that interests you that has gender-related differences, and research this health issue using the Walden Library and other reputable academic sources.
· Search the literature for effective strategies to mitigate the risk of the health issue.
Reading for this week, and please review this week’s readings and try to incorporate in your answer.
Helgeson, V. S. (2017). Psychology of gender (5th ed.). New York, NY: Taylor and Francis.

Chapter 10, “Sex Differences      in Health: Evidence and Explanations” (pp. 438–489)
Chapter 11, “Relationships and Health” (pp.      503–559)

Mars vs. Venus: The gender gap in health. (2010, January). Harvard Men’s Health Watch, 14(6), 1–5. Retrieved from the MEDLINE with Full Text database (Accession No. 20464795).

Select a health care facility or service that would accept Medicaid. Identify ways that Medicaid discounting can cause hardships on the type of facility that you selected.

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Select a health care facility or service that would accept Medicaid.
Identify ways that Medicaid discounting can cause hardships on the type of facility that you selected.
Create a presenation in Powerpoint. The presentation should be 10-12 slides in length and include detailed speaker’s notes for each slide. Your presentation should explore how Medicaid participation has affected organizational finances and what can be done to reduce any loss incurred.
Cite 3 reputable references to support your assignment (e.g., trade or industry publications, government or agency websites, scholarly works, or other sources of similar quality).
Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.

Q2

Research plays an essential role in health assessment and planning. What is formative research? How can formative research help the health advocate select and use a theory to strategize a communications campaign for health promotion?
Your responses should follow the conventions of Standard American English (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.). Your writing should be well ordered, logical and unified, as well as original and insightful. Your work should display superior content, organization, style, and mechanics. Use APA style for all citations. (Visit http://www.apastyle.org/learn/faqs/index.aspx)

Assignment should be in 150-200 words
PLAGIARISM IS HIGHLY UNACCEPTABLE!

APPRAISE THE ASPECTS OF MANAGING HUMAN RESOURCES (HR) IN HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS.

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Assignment 1: Human Resource Management Overview
Due Week 4 and worth 200 points
Using the course readings, articles, and your personal experiences, address the role of human resource management.
Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:

Determine key roles that human resource management plays in the health care field.
Evaluate three to five (3-5) functions of human resource management in terms of their level of support to the health care field, and then select which one you believe is the primary function in furthering the health care field.
Analyze the role of human resource management in an organization’s strategic plan.
Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment.  Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Appraise the aspects of managing human resources (HR) in health care organizations. 
Use technology and information resources to research issues in health care human resources management.
Write clearly and concisely about health care human resources management using proper writing mechanics.

Click here to view the grading rubric for this assignment.

DESCRIBE A SITUATION YOU ENCOUNTER WHEN DOING HEALTH SCREENING OR HEALTH PROMOTION ACTIVITIES?

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In Your Clinical journal,describe a situation you have encountered when doing health screening or health promotion activities

Complete Journaling Activity 8-1 on pg. 259. Answer the 2 questions using the assessment tools found in the chapter and document your findings to be handed in to the instructor at the end of the Community class.

1. In your clinical Journal, describe a situation you have encounter when doing Health screening or health promotion activities.

a) What did you learn from this experience 

b) How will you practice differently based in this experience?

2. In your clinical journal, describe a situation in which you have observed infant or children not receiving the disease prevention or health promotion services that they needed

a) How could or would you like to advocate for this issue when you begin to practice as an RN?

b) What could you do now?

IDENTIFY ONE EPIDEMIOLOGIC MEASURE OF A PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE RELATED TO PREVALENCE, INCIDENCE RATE, MORTALITY RATE.

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For each topic listed below, please: 
A. Identify one epidemiologic measure of a public health issue related to this topic (prevalence, incidence rate, mortality rate, etc.)
B. Identify a public health intervention that has targeted a public health issue related to this topic. Briefly explain the intervention (one or two sentences). 
C. Identify any data on the effectiveness of the intervention. If it is qualitative data (e.g., participants’ feedback on the program), describe the general themes in a sentence or two. If it is quantitative data, describe one or two important findings in a sentence or two.
D. For at least one topic, your source should be a peer-reviewed journal article.  For one topic, find an example of a t-test/ANOVA, Chi-Square test, linear regression, and/or logistic regression in a peer-reviewed journal article. Note the example and its interpretation. Do you agree with the interpretation that the author(s) made for this statistical test?
Topics: 
1. Stress and Health
2. Tobacco Use
3. Alcohol Consumption
4. Substance Abuse
5. Overweight and obesity
6. Mental Health

Please be sure to answer A-C for all six topics listed above.

DISCUSS THE POSSIBLE IMPACT OF HEALTH CARE REFORM WILL HAVE ON SALARIES AND BENEFITS THAT COMPANIES ARE ABLE TO OFFER THEIR EMPLOYEES.

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This paper should be a minimum of 6 pages, typed and double spaced but not exceeding 10 pages. This does not include the title page and the reference page. Due Midnight CST, Day 6 of Week 8
 Guidelines:

Locate 3-4 articles on recent health care reform Act by President Obama & the proposed changes to the Health care act by President Trump. These articles should be obtained from journals in the library. They can also be reference articles online. Wikipedia data and citations will not be accepted. Summarize the articles clearly in your paper. 
Using these article discuss the issue with the health care crisis and your understanding of health care reform. 
Discuss what impact you feel the new health care guidelines may have on an HR department. Will this cost the company more money? Will it act as a bigger motivating factor for employees? 
Discuss the possible impact of health care reform will have on salaries and benefits that companies are able to offer their employees. 

Suggestions for sections/ headings:
I. Introduction
        This section can include an overview of the health care reform. 
II. Articles on Health Care Reform 
        This section can discuss the 3-4 articles that you are using. Be sure to include a summary of each article with clear headings. 
III. Your understanding of what the Health Care Reform Act entails
        This section should discuss your understanding of the health care reform. 
IV. How will the health care reform impact HR?
        This is an opinion section. You will need to discuss how the health care reform under Obamacare and the new proposed changes will impact HR in terms of how many people a company can hire, potential salaries and benefits. 
V. Conclusion
Please use the above headings to structure your paper.

IDENTIFY BEST PRACTICES AND DETERMINE WHICH COULD BE IMPLEMENTED TO IMPROVE THE WORKFORCE FOR A SPECIFIC HEALTH CARE SERVICE, FACILITY, OR OTHER HEALTH SECTOR-RELATED OCCUPATION.

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Identify industries outside of health care that have deployed innovative management techniques, operational practices, or technology to improve their workforce. 
Identify best practices and determine which could be implemented to improve the workforce for a specific health care service, facility, or other health sector-related occupation.
Write a 350- to 525-word article that explains how a specific management technique, operational practice, or technology can be used to improve a specific health care workforce.

Cite at least 3 reputable references to support your assignment (e.g., trade or industry publications, government or agency websites, scholarly works, or other sources of similar quality).
Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.

EVALUATE THREATS TO HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND EXPLAIN THEIR IMPACT ON PATIENT HEALTH INFORMATION.

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DUE NOW
rior to beginning this discussion, read Chapters 7 and 8 from the Wager, Lee, & Glaser (2017) text and the articles by Callen (2016) and van Laere & Aggestam (2016).
Health information systems face challenges with data input and information output. Concerns with health information systems may vastly impact the accessibility and/or integrity of patient-protected health information (PHI). Health care leaders are continuously concerned about PHI value, quality, security, and efficiency. Meanwhile, technology is advancing in health care at an unsurpassed rate. Some health care organizations are very slow to adapt. Other organizations spend the time and resources ensuring that they remain competitive, measuring the risk versus the benefit of new or improved health information systems.
Participate in one of the following discussion subtopics as directed by your instructor on or before Day 3 of the week in a 300-word initial post:

Evaluate three threats to health information systems and explain their impact on patient health information.
Evaluate the effectiveness of a Web 2.0 tool used to manage health information, such as Practice Fusion (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. or Webicina (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. Highlight the safeguards and/or drawbacks you discover.
Evaluate ways in which IT value can be realized and aligned with patient safety goals.

Guided Response: Review your peers’ posts and substantively respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts by Day 7. Your three required posts (initial and at least two responses to peers) must be on three different days of the week. A substantive response is a respectful, professional, and unique response that is at least five sentences in length and

Highlights the key points of what you have learned from your peer’s post.

Adds to your classmate’s content knowledge by sharing a suggestion or insight that your colleague did not consider. 

ANALYZE THE SUBSTANTIVE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN A VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION CLINICIAN AND A STANDARD MENTAL HEALTH CLINICIAN.

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In 750-1,000 words, do the following:

Analyze the substantive differences between a vocational rehabilitation clinician and a standard mental health clinician, include treatment ideology for both.
Describe ethical challenges to treatment that might be encountered by a vocational rehabilitation clinician in a correctional facility. Explain how those ethical challenges can be addressed.

Provide a minimum of three to five peer reviewed resources to support your explanations.

Q2

“Health Management Information Systems (HMIS) and the MinuteClinic”  Please respond to the following:

Read the case study titled “MinuteClinic,”. Predict whether or not embracing the Continuity of Care Record (CCR) standard will either benefit or damage MinuteClinic’s overall profitability.Visualize three (3) patient issues that may arise as a result of implementing an electronic record that can be easily transferred from clinic to physician. Next, propose a plan to proactively address any one (1) of the patient issues that you identified. Justify your response.

300 words

HOW CAN HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATIONS IMPROVE DATA AND INFORMATION QUALITY WHILE AT THE SAME TIME DECREASING DATA AND INFORMATION ERRORS?

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Health information system
Please number each answer and reference with each questions so ill know what answer goes with each questions. Deadline: Sunday at noon, response post to at least “ONE” other learners due by Monday the next week at noon. The length of initial discussion post 300-word length and reply/response post should be at least 200 words per each question asked, to another fellow student and any real life experience as applicable, from news or text material. Late submission penalty applies based on the number of day’s late and in line with policy and procedure.

1a. “Health Care Data and Information”
· How can health care administrations improve data and information quality while at the same time decreasing data and information errors? Provide at least one (1) example to support your response.  
· What is interoperability, and why do health care providers and organizations still face critical issues and challenges related to interoperability despite the adoption and use of EHR? Support your response with at least one (1) example.

2b. “Strengths and Weaknesses of System Acquisition and Implementation” 
· What are the various options for acquiring a health care information system and the advantages and disadvantages of each option?
· Discuss the key risks to a health care organization that fails to allocate sufficient support and resources to a newly implemented health care information system. Next, propose one (1) strategy to mitigate the risks in question. Provide a rationale to support your response.

3c.“Evaluating the Health Information Systems and Alignment”

Analyze the reasons, discussed in Chapter 7 of the text, why IT fails to deliver returns. Next, discuss the main steps that management could take in order to address the reasons why IT fails to deliver returns. Provide a rationale for your response. 
Also, determine the basic components of a strategic information system (IT) plan within health care organizations. Next, specify the main roles of a leadership team—including Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Financial Officer (CFO)—in the process of IT alignment and strategic planning, including the role and function of the Data Analyst.

4d. “Evaluating the Health Information Systems and Alignment”
· Analyze the reasons, discussed in Chapter 7 of the text, why IT fails to deliver returns. Next, discuss the main steps that management could take in order to address the reasons why IT fails to deliver returns. Provide a rationale for your response. 
· Also, determine the basic components of a strategic information system (IT) plan within health care organizations. Next, specify the main roles of a leadership team—including Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Financial Officer (CFO)—in the process of IT alignment and strategic planning, including the role and function of the Data Analyst.

5e. “HIPPA and Performance Standards and Measures” 
· Analyze the importance of the enactment of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and appraise the overall impact of HIPAA on patients’ medical records. Suggest key ways in which health care administrations may improve data and information quality, and decrease data and information errors. Provide at least one (1) example to support your response.   
· Differentiate the variations between licensures, certification, measures and accreditation, why it is significant to health care in the United States, and what the role of the Joint Commission is.