Examine the differences between health equity, health disparity, and health inequality, using examples and scholarly references for support
One of the most basic principles of public health is that all people have a right to health. Unfortunately, a right to health does not guarantee good health or equivalent health status amongst people. Although the term “disparities” is often interpreted to mean racial or ethnic disparities, many dimensions of disparities exist in the United States, particularly in health. If a health outcome is seen in a greater or lesser extent between populations, there is disparity. Race, ethnicity, sex, sexual identity, age, disability, socioeconomic status, and geographic location all contribute to an individual’s ability to achieve good health. The purpose of this assignment is to consider the historic background of health disparities. You will also relate this history to the current state of healthcare, changes that have occurred over time and changes that are still needed in public health. Using online scholarly library resources, and the Internet, respond to the following:• Examine the differences between health equity, health disparity, and health inequality, using examples and scholarly references for support.• Review the article (attached) and answer the question that follows:• What aspects of the article do you think are still applicable in health services today and which do you think are not?
What is the engineering concept behind the bluetooth system?
What is the engineering concept behind the bluetooth system? Please explain the scientific and engineering concepts involved in this system, and how it all works. Please provide a comprehensive but easy to understand answer.
List and explain the determinants of the health behavior/issue that you have selected.
Tobacco use, obesity, and physical inactivity are among the leading contributors to morbidity and mortality in the United States (National Academy of Sciences, 2010). In this assignment, you will examine the determinants of health for one of these issues. Review the following article: https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/about/foundation-health-measures/Determinants-of-Health Be sure to watch the video: Determinants of health: A Framework for Reaching Healthy People 2020 Goals. Select one of the issues for study (tobacco use, obesity, or physical inactivity) and complete the following:• List and explain the determinants of the health behavior/issue that you have selected. Give reasons to support your statements. Write your initial response in approximately 200 words. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.
How can this information impact your career as a nurse or healthcare worker?
Read the following articles: “The Hospital Environment and Its Microbial Burden: Challenges and Solutions” Citation: Chirca, I. (2019). The hospital environment and its microbial burden: Challenges and solutions. Future Microbiology, 14(12), 10071010. https://doi.org/10.2217/fmb-2019-0140 “The Role of Environmental Cleaning in the Control of Hospital-Acquired Infection” Citation: Dancer, S. J. (2010, May 17). The role of environmental cleaning in the control of hospital-acquired infection. The Journal of Hospital Infection, 73(4), 378385. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2009.03.030 Answer the following questions in 12 double-spaced pages following APA (7th ed.) format. What concerns are addressed in these articles and what are the possible solutions to these problems? Identify one additional solution to any of the problems presented in these articles. Be sure to cite at least one resource to support your solution. How can this information impact your career as a nurse or healthcare worker?
Identify and describe the types of statistical tests you would use to test the hypotheses and create meaningful research results.
Include in a PowerPoint presentation the following information: Starting from the article about Taco Bell (link attached below) and thinking in general about fast-food, please formulate 2-3 hypotheses regarding the relationship between taste, variety in offerings, healthy options, consumers’ healthy orientation, price, social media promotions, celebrity endorsements, income or other variables, and fast-food sales. Also think about potential international factors that might affect fast-food sales. Identify the dependent and independent variables in each hypothesis. Justify your choice of hypotheses by explaining what you are testing for. From this, formulate a short survey to help you test the hypotheses. Identify and describe the types of statistical tests you would use to test the hypotheses and create meaningful research results. Explain why you chose each test. Address any ethical concerns that might need to be considered for this research project. https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/operations/world-ready-taco-bell (Links to an external site.) Your assignment should be 4-6 slides long, not including the required title and reference slides. Include your “voice over” in the notes section of the slides. This voice over—or text of your presentation—will enable your professor to read what you would say if you were actually making the presentation. The slides, therefore, can and should be very visual. Adhere to the CSU Global Writing Center (Links to an external site.). Include at least three scholarly sources (you may use the recommended readings) to support your answers. The CSU Global Library is a good place to find these sources. Remember to use in-text citations as appropriate and to include your sources in your reference slide.
Evaluate what the literature suggests as a resolution to your chosen issue.
ASSIGNMENT DETAILS: As of 2014 health care expenditures in the United States are near 17% of our gross domestic product (GDP), with a major portion of Medicare funding goes towards chronic illness and care at the last 6 months of life. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has made some initial legislative changes in our health system, but not sufficient to address our growing expenditures and caring for our large aging population. In this assignment, learners will synthesize issues in aging with health policy solutions by writing a paper on one health issue for older individuals addressed in the topic and offering a policy solution. Example of issue: In 2014, over 50% of the costs of institutional long-term care for older persons are paid for with public funds from Medicaid. Directions: Write a 12000-1500 word paper that addresses a health issue for older individuals. Include the following: 1.Evaluate what the literature suggests as a resolution to your chosen issue. 2.Discuss any attempts to incorporate the solution into public policy. 3.Determine the barriers to implementation of the solution. 4.Analyze the options being discussed for public and/or private funding. 5.Propose your own recommendation.
Define the expected benefits of the new system and for intangible benefits, produce your assumptions using equivalent real-life case studies and/or best practices.
THE NORTH EAST MEDICAL PRACTICE Dr. Francis Decker owns a multi-city medical practice located in NY, PA, NJ and MA. Newark is the headquarters location with 10 doctors, 2 doctor’s assistants, 2 receptionists, 3 billing/accounting staff, 1 appointments scheduler, and 1 office manager. There are 11 other locations across the 4 states that differ in staffing only by having 7 doctors instead of 10 and 2 billing/accounting staff. All offices are open every day but Sunday, but are on call when offices are closed. Dr. Decker seeks to modernize his 12 practices in order to create new efficiencies and introduce new services such as user-booked appointments. Each day, every practice sees 110 patients each on average, except Newark, which averages 150 patients daily. On average, every patient is billed $195 per appointment through their insurance. Straightforward office visits cost $85, the rest comes from additional services such as blood testing, EKG etc. Cash-only patients are also accepted. Physical therapy and a few diagnostic tests, e.g., ultrasounds, X-Rays, EKGs and some blood tests are performed in the practices. Others are referred to specialists. Dr. Decker believes that volume could be increased by 20% daily through investing in technology and in making billing more efficient. As it is, 8 of the 12 practices are not taking any new patients. The new system must satisfy the following requirements: 1. Manage patient records electronically—this will also require conversion of several hundred paper and Oracle-based records to Electronic Health Records (EHRs). 2. Perform appointments scheduling. All appointments will be stored on the system and available as a daily report. The system should also be able to call and remind patients one day before. 3. Consultation documentation. Each interaction with the doctor or physical therapist will be entered into the EHR. Medical dictation and transcription are necessary sub-features to improve the efficiency and speed of consultations. 4. Laboratory and integrated chart documentation. Every lab, including X-Rays, MRIs, biopsies, PET Scans and so on will be stored within the patients’ EHRs. 5. Billing. Efficient billing will be the cornerstone of the system. It will be capable of billing various agencies, namely: medical insurance companies, auto insurance companies, patients, worker’s compensation agencies etc. 6. Collections. The system will flag past due accounts and generate dunning (overdue payment) letters, plus provide reports to assist collection staff. 7. A practice website will be created to provide patients with information and in the future, allow self-service, e.g., patient scheduling and patient access to their EHRs. 8. HIPAA Compliance, to conform to industry standards. 9. Auditable: The system will be able to provide audit reports showing proper access to sensitive data as well as validation of financial record keeping. There are older PCs at the all current locations that will be disposed of. All practices should be fully computerized and networked within a total budget of $250,000. Your group must consider appropriate form factors for computing equipment used by medical personnel and allow BYOD (Bring-Your-Own-Device) as well. Compare and contrast SaaS solutions versus shrink-wrapped solutions. Enterprise-wide analyses and reporting are required. As mentioned earlier, Dr. Decker wants the new website to enable customers to set appointments over the Internet. Development costs (excluding IT personnel) must be paid for out of the project budget of $250K. All networking equipment, software and/or external services must also be paid for out of the budget (services for 3 years). You are also not allowed to increase your budget by firing people. Assume any existing equipment has no resale value. The practice also seeks to conduct data discovery and business analytics using its newly-hired data scientist, so a business analytics software program must be selected. The development team should undertake the following assignments: 1. Select software for the medical practice to handle the practice’s requirements. The software should handle front-end and back-end requirements, and may be cloud-based or onsite server-based. 2. Select all computer hardware for the medical practice including computing platforms used by the listed doctors and other medical staff and the server(s), if used. No parts of the current architecture may be used. 3. Select networking hardware and services to support the communication requirements of the medical practice. 4. Select the database architecture and data warehousing architecture to support the daily transactions and the data analytics requirements of the practice. 5. Describe how the medical practice will use social media and integrate that into their data analytics effort. 6. Produce a schematic that graphically shows the architecture of the new system i.e., hardware, software, data, people and networking components. 7. Define the expected benefits of the new system and for intangible benefits, produce your assumptions using equivalent real-life case studies and/or best practices.
write a 2-page report (double spaced) on how you will assist the teacher in developing both behavior and student performance assessments.
Watch the following video located athttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMhIUo2a1iE&t=55s (Links to an external site.)
Scenario: You are the team lead for the 7th and 8th grade class shown in the video. The teacher has asked for your assistance with providing an assessment for not only student learning, but for behaviors as well. Using what you have learned in this course relative to assessments, write a 2-page report (double spaced) on how you will assist the teacher in developing both behavior and student performance assessments. Include in your report the recommendations you would give to the teacher in video. Note: You can utilize journal articles or other resources if you choose to do so.
Which is the preferred process for Tim, and why?
Tim Urban, owner/manager of Urban’s Motor Court in Key West, is considering outsourcing the daily room cleanup for his motel to Duffy’s Maid Service. Tim rents an average of 50 rooms for each of 365 nights (365 × 50 equals the total rooms rented for the year). Tim’s cost to clean a room is $12.50. The Duffy’s Maid Service quote is $18.50 per room plus a fixed cost of $25,000 for sundry items such as uniforms with the motel’s name. Tim’s annual fixed cost for space, equipment, and supplies is $61,000. Which is the preferred process for Tim, and why?
Identify and define all exposure and health risks from PCBs and lead.
Course Project Task 4—Landfill, Contaminated Soil, and Contaminated Water Scenario: Once causation has been determined, epidemiological principles can be used to lessen risk by considering the policies that lead to unnecessary exposures. Centervale’s landfill facility has accepted, with the town’s approval, contaminated soil from the Middle Earth Energy Corporation. The landfill is located above ground and the operators plan on selling the soil to small farms in the county. The soil is known to be contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and lead that exceed the limits set by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In the past, the EPA has discovered several leaks in the landfill’s liner. The landfill is located above the town’s main aquifer, which supplies well water to 10,000 residents who live in either Simon Township (ST) or Diamond Township (DT). In Taylor Township (TT), 750 residents use both well water and Metropolis water for small farms. The other residents only use well water. Directions Research the public health implications of water contamination. Use information from the EPA, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and National Institutes of Health (NIH). Respond to the following: 1.Identify and define all exposure and health risks from PCBs and lead. 2.Develop a dose-response assessment curve for adults and children for PCBs and lead. 3.3. Calculate the proportion of people in Centervale who are exposed to well water (i.e., water from the aquifer) and Metropolis water. Show your work. You should utilize at least 2 scholarly sources beyond the course readings in your research. Your paper should be written in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Write a 4–5-page report in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M4_A2.doc. For example, if your name is John Smith, your document will be named SmithJ_M4_A2.doc. By the due date assigned, deliver your assignment to the Submissions Area. Required Assignment Grading Criteria Assignment 3 Grading Criteria Maximum Points Identify and define all exposure and health risks from PCBs and lead.. 8 Develop a dose-response assessment curve for adults for PCBs and lead. 24 Develop a dose-response assessment curve for children for PCBs and lead. 24 Calculate the proportion of people in Centervale who are exposed to well water (i.e., water from the aquifer) and Metropolis water. Show your work. 24 Academic Writing Write in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources (i.e., APA); and display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation. 20 Total: 100
