DESCRIBE THE 2 REASONS SCHROEDER GIVES TO EXPLAIN WHY THE US RANKS POORLY ON MANY HEALTH MEASURES IN SPITE OF SPENDING MORE MONEY THAN OTHER COUNTRIES ON HEALTH CARE

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Read Schroeder’s article “We Can Do Better—Improving the Health of the American People Shattuck Lecture” NEJM, 2007 . Discuss the following points in your thread. •Describe the 2 reasons Schroeder gives to explain why the US ranks poorly on many health measures in spite of spending more money than other countries on health care. What other single factor would you suggest that might also contribute to this paradox? •In what ways is the problem of obesity in America like the now decreasing problem of tobacco use? In what ways is it different? •The pie chart illustrating the 5 proportional categories contributing to premature death in the US are based on total US population mortality. How might these percentages change if the chart were to be redrawn to reflect populations living in poverty in inner cities? People living in poverty in rural areas? Suggest new percentages for each and explain why you think as you do. •Social determinants of health are relatively new considerations as predictors of premature death, yet a growing body of research indicates their contribution is strong. Name a social determinant and describe a possible role for the Church in ameliorating it.

Must be 400 words. I have attached the reading.

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Imagine you have been selected to consult for a prestigious health care organization. Your ultimate goal is to develop a proposal to present to the board of the organization. At their last meeting, the board asked you to prepare a proposal on how the organization might adopt a technology trend to improve the quality of the health care delivered to organization members.

Research various types, uses, and effects of technology across the health care industry.

Write a 350- to 700-word summary that describes various types and uses of technology across the health care industry and their impact. Also, identify the technology trend you will recommend for the health care organization.

Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.

DEVELOP A MARKETING PACKAGE THAT PROMOTES A HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATION.

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Healthcare Marketing Practices

In this unit, you become the sole owner of a healthcare organization. You would like to increase marketing potential while maintaining social responsibility within your field. As a new owner, you are not afforded a budget to hire a marketing expert and must develop the marketing strategy and subsequent collateral materials yourself. Your objective for this unit it to develop a marketing package that promotes your healthcare organization. By the end of this unit, you will become the subject matter expert on developing and deploying a marketing strategy for a healthcare organization.

• Submit your marketing package as one (1) Word document. To do this, you will need to use Page Break and copy/paste functions. • Your final submission must include each of the following: • Professional letter from you to the local Chamber of Commerce introducing your new healthcare organization to the community. This is your opportunity to make a good, first impression, so be sure to incorporate the elements you would want to promote. • Identify the 5 P’s of healthcare marketing in your organization • Create mission and vision statements • Develop codes of professional conduct which support social responsibility in your select healthcare field • Record a 30-second radio announcement (using a free online voice recorder such as vocaroo.com). You will provide the audio link to your instructor on a separate page in your marketing package. • Design a print advertisement (e.g., billboard, bus, newspaper, etc.). You will provide the print advertisement that you create on a separate page in your marketing package. • All materials in your marketing packet must be completely original. Copying and pasting work from other sources for this assignment is strictly prohibited. Remember, you are developing a marketing package for your own healthcare organization; make it unique. • Although the use of APA formatting is not required for this assignment, proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation are expected.

Drive-In Don’s fast food restaurant sells the most delicious burgers in town at the most affordable price. Elementary and high schools in the vicinity have contracted with the restaurant to serve burgers during lunch hour.

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Drive-In Don’s fast food restaurant sells the most delicious burgers in town at the most affordable price. Elementary and high schools in the vicinity have contracted with the restaurant to serve burgers during lunch hour. However, the county health department’s one-year study shows that children from these schools have the highest cholesterol, are the most obese, and are the least active.

George and Mary’s son, Randall, 12, attends one of the schools where Drive-In Don’s foods are served. He suffers from extreme obesity and high cholesterol and runs the risk of diabetes.

George and Mary have sued Drive-In Don’s and the school, alleging that Drive-In Don’s is engaging in illegal deceptive advertising of its foods and is not truthful to customers. Further, the lawsuit states that the restaurant purposely fails to provide consumers details of the ingredients of its food products.

Research consumer protection laws and regulations, using your textbook, the Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet. Based on the facts of the case and research, write an analytical paper (approximately 4-5 pages). In the paper, respond to the following questions:

Do George and Mary have a case? What are their strongest legal arguments? Explain. What defense(s), if any, do the school and the restaurant have? Explain. Can the government agencies, such as the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) help the plaintiffs in any way? Explain. Write a 4-5-page paper in Word format. Apply APA standards for writing style to your work.

DETERMINE, WITHIN THE HEALTH CARE SETTING, THE MAIN FEATURES, CAPABILITIES, AND OPERATIONAL BENEFITS TO A HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION

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Write a five to six (5-6) page paper in which you: Determine, within the health care setting, the main features, capabilities, and operational benefits to a health care organization using the following: patient care applications management and enterprise systems e-Health applications strategic decision-support applications Provide specific examples of each. Assume that you are a senior health service administrator responsible for the health information systems within your organization, and create an argument to be presented to the leaders with the organization that a strategic plan is essential for the IM / IT. Indicate the most significant elements that the administrator should address in the plan. Provide support for the rationale. Assess the importance of a systems development life cycle as it pertains to both the development of a custom application, coupled with the selection of proprietary systems. Provide an example to support the response. Recommend the key element necessary to ensure secure access to health care and patient information within a health care management electronic system. Provide support for the recommendation. Make at least two (2) recommendations for improving the application of systems theory to health care IM / IT governance and planning. Provide specific examples to support the response. Use at least four (4) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality 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.

MANAGING HEALTH CARE QUALITY

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Imagine that you are a hospital administrator at the Sunlight Hospital in California. The main complaint among the patients is the quality of care. Your job is to understand the state of the hospital, create value, increase efficiency, and turn the facility into a local hospital of choice. Whenever you are making visits in various wards to meet the employees and the patients, you hear how the patients love the hospital, but they would like to see certain improvements in care. The employees seem to be very busy executing their duties and not interacting much with the patients. The hospital board has asked you to compile a report of your findings and suggested strategy for achieving the hospital’s current goals.

Note: You may create and / or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment.

Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you: 1. Classify five (5) measurements of quality of care in a hospital, and justify the major reasons why you believe these measurements matter to patients in their process of choosing a hospital for emergency or inpatient care. 2. Specify four (4) main features in health care organizations that can be used to design a successful quality improvement plan. Articulate the significant manner in which the specified features can lead to failure or success of quality of care in Sunlight Hospital. 3. Suggest the salient reasons why quality of care would add value to and create a competitive advantage for the Sunlight Hospital. Justify your response. 4. Use four (4) recent (within the last five [5] years) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other websites do not qualify as quality academic resources.

LEGAL ASPECTS OF SAFETY AND HEALTH 3 OPERATION OR INSPECTION

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Unit II Assignment You receive a follow-up call from the area director saying the employee filing the original non-formal complaint has provided additional information about the alleged health situation and submitted a formal complaint using the OSHA-7 form, making the complaint a formal complaint. A few days later, an OSHA compliance officer shows up at your facility to perform a comprehensive inspection. The compliance officer presents the proper credentials, and you verify that the compliance officer is employed by OSHA and assigned to the local office. During the opening conference, the compliance officer provides you with the formal complaint, alleging that employees are exposed to hazardous concentrations of metal fumes in welding areas of the plant, that you have not performed any air sampling to determine exposure levels, that adequate ventilation is not present in welding areas, and that adequate respiratory protection has not been provided to welders. As a part of the inspection, the compliance officer requests the following documents:  chemical inventory list;  OSHA 300 logs;  Hazard Communication Program, including training records;  any sampling data that you have;  Respiratory Protection Program, including medical clearance letters and training records;  written hazard assessment for personal protective equipment (PPE) used at the facility;  Safety Data Sheets (SDSs) for the metals you use in the production process and any welding rods/wire used in the welding area; and  any other written programs you have that are required by an OSHA regulation. The compliance officer takes a walk-through tour of the facility, spending extra time in the welding areas. During the walkthrough, the compliance officer points out several issues believed to be apparent violations. The issues are as follows:  Heavy haze is present in the welding area.  Individuals wearing half-mask air-purifying respirators have full beards.  Employees are using chemicals that could be injurious to the eyes, and no emergency eyewash is present.  Eyewash is present in another area of the plant that is covered in dust, and there is no indication of recent BOS 3525, Legal Aspects of Safety and Health 3 operation or inspection.  Employees are using chemicals that could be absorbed through the skin and are not using any gloves.  Employees are performing maintenance inside a press with no lock-out/tag-out applied.  No written lock-out/tag-out program is available at the time of the inspection.  Welding operation is performed near flammable materials, and no fire watch present.  There is no record of training for fork truck drivers.  Extension cords are stretched across walkways.  Three containers are present in the plant with no label present on any of the containers.  An employee could not find a SDS for the chemical he or she was using. The compliance officer asks for a private conference room and a list of non-managerial employees. He tells you that he intends to interview four non-managerial employees before leaving for the day. He also states that he will return the next day to collect some air samples at the facility. You are worried about the number of citations and penalties that you may face. Provide a document summarizing the steps you would take as soon as the compliance officer leaves, and the steps you believe you could have taken during the walk-through that may have resulted in a quick-fix penalty reduction. Your document must be at least three pages in length, not counting the title or reference pages. You must also

EXAMINE THE INVOLVEMENT OF BOTH THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA) AND THE OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH AGENCY (OSHA) IN HEALTH CARE.

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“Public Health Services” Please respond to the following:
Analyze two (2) essential public health care services found in the text. Examine these services in relationship to one (1) well-known healthcare organization in your community. Provide specific examples to support your analysis.

Examine the involvement of both the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Occupational Safety and Health Agency (OSHA) in health care. Interpret the extent to which the involvement of each agency improves the federal government’s response to health problems overall. Support your rationale with two (2) specific examples for each agency.

HSA405 WEEK 4 DISCUSSION QUESTION 2
“Disease Control” Please respond to the following:
From the first e-Activity, compare your state public health agency to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service (DHHS) in relation to each agency’s approach to disease management. Examine the role that each public health agency would play in the event of a disease outbreak. Provide two (2) examples to support your response.

From the second e-Activity, analyze two to three (2-3) strategies that your state public health agency would employ in response to a pandemic event. From modifications made to policies in the last five years, infer the related lessons that have been learned. Support your rationale with specific examples of these strategic modifications.

IDENTIFY THE RISK FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THE SELECTED HEALTH PROMOTION PROGRAMS.

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Health Promotion Program 

Assume that you are working in a community health department. The department has some federal money that it wants to allocate to two health promotion programs from the following:

  • Decrease in deaths from cardiovascular disease
  • Decrease in deaths from breast cancer
  • Decrease in teenage pregnancy
  • Decrease in cigarette smoking
  • Decrease in incidence of diabetes
  • Decrease in motor vehicle accidents
  • Decrease in obesity

Identify the health promotion programs that you would want to investigate and get them approved by your instructor.

Write a FULL 3 page report in a Microsoft Word document, addressing the following questions:

  • Identify the risk factors associated with the selected health promotion programs.
  • What is the target population associated with the selected health promotion program? Consider the hypothetical target population, consisting of middle-aged women, male adolescent gang members, premature infants, etc., and describe the characteristics of each program.
  • What are the risk factors that you want to focus on in order to achieve the objective of the health promotion program?
  • What intervention would you recommend to be most appropriate to reduce exposure to these risk factors? You can choose at what level of intervention you want to implement each program (primary, secondary, tertiary health intervention).
  • What will be the process by which this intervention will achieve the goal of the program?
  • What will be the anticipated outcome of this intervention?

Support your responses with examples makes sure is detailed 

Cite any sources in APA format.

Assignment 2 Grading CriteriaMaximum Points
Analyzed the target population and the risk factors associated with the selected health promotion programs.15
Analyzed and outlined the risk factors to be targeted in order to achieve the aim of the health promotion program.15
Explained an intervention to reduce exposure to these risk factors, the process by which it will achieve the aim of the program and its anticipated outcomes.15
Used correct spelling, grammar, and professional vocabulary. Cited all sources using correct APA format.5
Total:

DESCRIBE THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT, CURRENT STRUCTURE, COST, IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY, AND WAYS OF CONCEPTUALIZING THE U.S. HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

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Assignment 1: Historical Transitioning and Growth of the U.S. Health Care System Due Week 3 and worth 150 points

As a health administrator, your hospital has tasked you with reporting the general nature of health care administration to visiting stakeholders / shareholders. These stakeholders / shareholders are investors, but are not too versed in the significance of the U.S. health care system and its present position in social, financial, technological, and medical pioneering advances.

Write a three to five (3-5) page paper in which you:

Summarize key milestones involved in the past and present shaping and transitional dynamics behind changes in the present health care industry. Evaluate the importance of financing and technology in health care. Provide examples to support your response. Analyze the primary complexities and integrated social dynamics associated with changing demographics and emergent diseases (e.g., the complexities seen in the growing Latin and Asian populations, etc.). Examine the major fluctuating and daunting challenges in health care management that mortality trends and an aging Baby Boom generation predicate. Use at least four (4) recent (i.e., five [5] years), 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:

Describe the historical development, current structure, cost, impact of technology, and ways of conceptualizing the U.S. health care system. Explain how changes in population, disease patterns, and trends affect the health care system. Use technology and information resources to research issues in health services organization. Write clearly and concisely about health services organization using proper writing mechanics. Click here to view the grading rubric for this assignment.

DESCRIBE THE PUBLIC HEALTH ORGANIZATIONS INVOLVED IN THE RESPONSE TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE AT THE NATIONAL AND LOCAL LEVELS.

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Public Health Intervention

You will examine and summarize the public health responses to your selected issue/topic which is HIV//AIDS…by identifying who is involved and what actions they are taking (the “who” and the “how”). Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed: IV. Public Health Response: In this section, you will inspect the public health landscape to identify who is involved in responding to your public health issue and what actions they are taking. A. Describe the public health organizations involved in the response to the public health issue at the national and local levels. Use examples that show which entities are working on the issue and what they are doing. For example, what federal and local agencies and/or not-for-profit entities are involved, and what are their roles in the response? B. Explain the specific public health subdisciplines involved in understanding and responding to the issue, including what their roles are. Examples of public health subdisciplines include biostatistics, epidemiology, maternal and child health, and disaster-response planning. C. Explain the public health services involved in the response to the issue. What types of services, programs, or campaigns have been offered by organizations in response to the problem?