Optimal Model for Health Care Stephanie Fontes ECON 402—Wednesday’s Class Due Date: November 2nd‚ 2011 What is an optimal model for health care? This is a highly debated issue internationally. Much of the debate centers around whether health care should be treated as a type of public—good supplied by the government and funded by taxpayers. Others believe that a better system is delivered by the private sector. Another model advocates a public/private mix. This analysis will consider
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majority of countries‚ governments play a role in the provision or funding of health services. Although the nature of public sector involvement is often a source of fierce political debate‚ it is presumed that governments need to play a role in the provision of healthcare. Perhaps the most captivating justification for the government to intervene in healthcare is that healthcare‚ like education‚ everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of
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IT 4222-202 Outcome 1: Understand what is required for competence in own work role As I am a care assistant my duties and responsibility in my role are • Making sure I arrive on time for my service user • Assisting out of bed‚ getting washed/ showered dressed and is ready for the day • Preparing service users food whether its breakfast diner tea or super • Administering there medication • Prompting their medication • Making sure they have their fluids I set my standards very high
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1. The health needs for victims of Domestic Violence are mainly for two reasons medical health needs and mental health needs. Most victims reported needing medical treatment at least once because of physical abuse from his or her partner. Some victims also need mental health treatment and may have received counseling because of post trauma stress. 2. Interventions in the emergency room are inadequate because most victims often times do not end up having to seek treatment with physical abuse. Once
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Section 1: Patient Safety In the field of nursing there are several care delivery models that have been recognized‚ addressed and researched within the chapter I selected to review. The basics of nursing care delivery methods can simplistically be separated into two broad categories. The first of which being a customary form of nursing care delivery where a registered nurse is the primary caregiver with his or her focus of the care remaining solely on the patient assigned to the specific registered
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Unit 13 –Dementia Awareness 1) 1.1. Explain what is meant by the term ‘dementia’ Dementia is a set of symptoms that affect the way people think and interact with each other. It is not a disease‚ but can often be linked to a disease or damage done to the brain. Short-time memory‚ mind‚ speech and motor skills are affected. Certain forms of dementia cause a change in the personality of the individual. A person suffering from dementia will lose certain skills and knowledge they already had. This
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1. How Health and Safety legislation is implemented in the workplace ( Learning Outcome 1) 2. The ways in which health and safety requirements impact on customers and the work of practitioners‚ staff‚ visitors and clients in the health and social care workplace (Learning Outcome 2) 3. The monitoring and review of health and safety policies in the health and social care workplace (Learning Outcome 3)
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Describe how incorrect handling and moving techniques can damage the skin. Identify a range of interventions that can reduce the risk of skin breakdown and pressure sores. Describe the changes to an individual skin conditions that should be reported. It is important to avoid or prevent the vulnerable areas or where sores has already formed. Regularly changing position or moving helps to prevent pressure sores developing in a vulnerable areas or to relieve already existing ones.
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............................ Unit 115 – Promote Positive Behaviour | For this next question you need to look through the National Minimum Care Standards (your Manager should have a copy) and give below the Standard which you feel most closely relates to this unit‚ also give a brief description of what it says/involves. NMCS Numbered : Brief description : | What do you understand by the term restrictive intervention? | 115.1 - 2 & 3 | Explain when
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Infection control The different routes‚ through which infection can get into the body‚ are: * You can get an infection through the respiratory tract and into the lung‚ by a cough‚ cold‚ influenza and any other common airborne infections that are contracted in this fashion. * You could get it through a cut or wound that has broken the skin‚ one of the main functions of the skin is to act as a barrier against any infection. Anything that penetrates the skin or for that matter the mucous membrane
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