1. Based on what you learned in chapter 1‚ discuss the forces that affect health and well-being in the community where your college is located. Give an example of each force. Which of these forces do you think healthcare managers can control and change the most to improve people’s health? The forces that affect our health and well-being in the community where your college is located include medical services‚ environment‚ and lifestyles. A medical service is described as the many medical services
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1. Describe how some of the changes in the health services delivery system have led to a decline in hospital inpatient days and a growth in ambulatory services. • Two of the main factors that have led to decrease in hospital inpatient days and a growth in ambulatory services are Medicare reimbursement and cost-saving efforts of managed care. Medicare instituted PPS for reimbursing hospitals in the mid 1980s. PPS repayment based on DRGs gives fixed case-based payment to hospitals. Therefore‚ hospitals
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quality and security of a person’s health care depend on multiple factors‚ among that the accessibility‚ the cost‚ the skills of the practitioners and many more… Nowadays the financial and social status are taken into consideration by some providers to provide care and few of insurance companies are still considering the preexisting conditions to get insured. Those factors are among the barriers of the healthcare system improvement. In calling back many years‚ the health care in the United States has
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Summary of case- Entering Alegent Health This case examines the Entering stage of organizational Development. Alegent Health is a five-hospital system which was formed by the merger of two religious sponsored health care systems. For the past two years two well know OD consultants have been working with Alegent Health to design and develop a large group intervention know as Decision Accelerator(DA) to aid in creation of strategies. An interaction with the consultants and researchers from
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Organizational Responsibility Organizational structure and culture influence have a huge effect on the success or downfall of an organization. Many organizations have proper processes in place to prevent health care fraud and abuse. This paper reviews fraud and abuse and how organizational structure and governance‚ culture‚ and focus on social responsibility affect or influenced the described situation. This paper will also review resources and allocation to prevent this type situation in the future
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Discuss with your colleagues 1.What are Ethics? 2. Where do they come from and who is responsible? 3. How do ethics apply to health care organizations and its employees? Provide specific examples. 4. Research a specific ethics issue applicable to health care organizations‚ discuss how it was handled‚ what ethics theory epitomizes the handling of the issue and how would you have handled the issue and which specific ethics theory would apply to your solution. [see below A Framework for Thinking Ethically
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Kristine Kim CPSP119F 11 February 2013 This case study focused on the millions of deaths caused by diarrheal disease in Egypt. It was recorded that in 1977‚ was found that in Egypt this disease was the cause of half of all infant deaths. Diarrheal disease results in dehydration which greatly contributes to those high mortality rates. The National Control of Diarrheal Disease Project of Egypt was created to promote the usage of oral rehydration salts which can reverse dehydration. This program
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When one thinks of a degree in Health Care Studies‚ many questions come to mind. The most common questions are‚ “what exactly is it?” and “what jobs can you get with it?”. In short‚ health care studies allows students to learn about health care from a more managerial point of view‚ such as learning about the ins and outs of the healthcare system and how to help different aspects of it run. Therefore‚ there are several jobs one can get with a Health Care Studies degree that correlate with the world
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{text:bookmark-start} Assignment: Case Study {text:bookmark-end} Mental illness is any of various conditions characterized by impairment of an individual’s normal cognitive‚ emotional‚ or behavioral functioning‚ and caused by social‚ psychological‚ biochemical‚ genetic or other factors‚ such as infection or head trauma. Also call emotional illness‚ and mental disease. (www.thefreedictioary.com). No mental illness can not be define as a physical illness such as diabetes‚ because mental illness is
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It is well recognized that maternal healthcare is essential for further improvement of maternal and child health. Maternal and child health services is said to play a vital role in achieving improved health outcomes. The decision to use health care is undoubtedly influence by the characteristics of the health delivery system such as the availability and accessibility of the services. However‚ this does not necessarily mean that where there is a good supply of services‚ demand is created in and of
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