Category: Healthcare

Explain the role that the WHO plays in the prevention of communicable diseases.What are the possible sources of financing for programs like the one in which you are involved?

As a health care professional for an international health care network, you plan to visit 7 foreign countries this year as part of a communicable disease prevention program. Before you travel, you need to provide information to your assistants about the health care services in the countries you will be visiting, as well as on the World Health Organization (WHO), the agency that is concerned with international public health.

Research using the Library and other resources to address the following:

Provide examples that show how the WHO is involved with global health care assistance.

Explain the role that the WHO plays in the prevention of communicable diseases.

Select 7 foreign countries, and briefly describe the communicable disease situation in the selected countries. Include your statistics in a table format.

What are the possible sources of financing for programs like the one in which you are involved?

Be sure to support your information by citing at least 2 scholarly references using APA format.

Examine the influence of social and cultural constructs to sickness and healing while differentiating between preventive and curative services and the need for balancing these services from a financial perspective.

List and explain reasons why the health status of a country plays an important role in its economic status.

Create a table that shows how the access, quality, and cost of health care are influenced by the low-income, middle-income, and high-income status of an economy.

Assignment Objectives
Examine the influence of social and cultural constructs to sickness and healing while differentiating between preventive and curative services and the need for balancing these services from a financial perspective.

 How do you feel about the project now compared to before you started it? Where you more engaged or less so?

Reflection Paper: Little Pantry Research Project

Be thoughtful and reflective on this. This is a reflection discussion for just the Research project of the Little Pantry component of the course. Express thoughts while carrying out a project like this, and what you felt were areas where you do well or do not do well? The questions below are the guideline to write the reflection.

Reflect on your experience with the outreach project, how did you feel it challenged you?

Did anything surprise you about yourself or your learning style when working on the IE component?

How do you feel about the project now compared to before you started it? Where you more engaged or less so?

Analyze your transformational leadership on followership (Chapter 8). use your own leadership story/observation and theory-derived analysis of your leadership story.

CH 8 Review

Reflect on your past to understand yourself and your leadership skills and style. Analyze your transformational leadership on followership (Chapter 8). use your own leadership story/observation and theory-derived analysis of your leadership story.

Create a healthcare organization from mission statement, to branding, to technology and infrastructure, quality, safety, and experience to build your excellent HCO.

Create a healthcare organization from mission statement, to branding, to technology and infrastructure, quality, safety, and experience to build your excellent HCO. Have fun with it (i.e. Mend Heal & Help hospital etc.) – you have an unlimited budget so go for it all.

Harrison, Jeffrey P. (2021). Essentials of Strategic Planning in Healthcare 3rd edition. Health Administration Press. ISBN: 9781640552012

Are all stakeholders represented? Was sufficient research done on the respected positions of each stakeholder? Was the issue that would affect each stakeholder group well defined and accurate? Recommendations 60 20% Are the recommendations ethical, legal, and possible?

Public Policy

In addition, you will need to show the economics of your idea—how much does it cost? How will you pay for it? Will it save money?

Problem Statement 20 7% Is the problem statement concise and a reasonable public policy problem?

Rationale 30 10% Is the rationale behind the public policy problem reasonable and understood?

Economic Considerations 30 10% Did the team understand the economics of the policy? Was it reasonable and attainable?
Research 40 13% Was proper research conducted? Does it support the argument?

Stakeholders 40 13% Are all stakeholders represented? Was sufficient research done on the respected positions of each stakeholder? Was the issue that would affect each stakeholder group well defined and accurate?
Recommendations 60 20% Are the recommendations ethical, legal, and possible? Did the recommendations get well developed and have appropriate supportive data?
Grammar and Professionalism 30 10% Does it utilize proper grammar and spelling of a graduate-level paper?

What implications associated with the ACA might lead to a paradigm shift in the ways in which we view access to health care?

Overinsured, Underinsured, and Uninsured

Presently, the United States is a fragmented system that offers a misdistribution of “haves” and “have nots” which impact the cost of delivering health care. The United States is currently a nation of overinsured, underinsured, and uninsured people. In light of the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), how do you see these issues being corrected so that a majority of the population has access to quality health care? communicate the relevant aspects of the ACA that will impact these issues.

Analyze and describe how the role of public policy will affect changes in this distribution.

Evaluate and explain some of the social-cultural issues that might present potential problems as this plays out across the country. What implications associated with the ACA might lead to a paradigm shift in the ways in which we view access to health care?

Why do you find the article useful and valid for your essay? Now that you have looked at it more closely, do you find anything in it suspect or do you notice limitations? What are they?

Topic 4 DQ 2

Select one of the articles you are using for your essay and briefly evaluate it using the criteria listed above. Why do you find the article useful and valid for your essay? Now that you have looked at it more closely, do you find anything in it suspect or do you notice limitations? What are they?

What kinds of employment, education, housing, or transportation policies does the community need today to promote health equity?

Module 12 Discussion

What kinds of employment, education, housing, or transportation policies does the community need today to promote health equity?

What obstacles and opportunities exist?

How are strategies for social change different than programs for repairing damage? How would power have to shift?

How would you address these issues in your community?