...Perspective on Health Care Nsunda Tezzo HCS 212 February 11, 2013 University of Phoenix Perspective on Health Care Health care is a broad term that is defined as care, treatment, management, and prevention of diseases using medical and health care professionals. Jacobsen (2012) cites that health care sector offers variety of exiting careers which health professionals can pursue including; health management, medical equipment sales, research, and discovery as well as clinic and chronic care centers management. All these areas have their specific importance in ensuring quality health delivery to people who seek medical services. One of the most interesting areas of health care for me is the medical research. Health or medical research is a systematic way of evaluating human infections and learning more about human health with the aim of discovering the human health disorders and inventing strategies for the preventing and treating human diseases (Jacobsen, 2012). It also involves the evaluation of safety and effectiveness of particular treatment procedures, validation of a course of treatment and collection of data that will allow future analysis of the study. History of Health Research and the Future Although health research dates back to early 14th century, active scientific approach to health care challenges started with studies about the antibiotics after the Second World War. The discovery of penicillin and vaccines like polio and measles opened studies for several...
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...Perspective on Health Care - New to Health Care Your Name Here HCS/212 Date Here Instructor Name Here Perspective on Health Care - New to Health Care The history of health care in the United States has always had one constant: low income households have never had quality access to health care. In looking back through the history of health care in our country, it’s always been reserved to those who can afford it and not to the general public. Going back further in our history you can see this more evidently than you can even today. In the early days of the health care industry and the health insurance industry in the United States, poor people sometimes didn’t have access at all, not even through emergency rooms and neighborhood clinics, like they do today. Low income families often times suffered through illnesses, or even died, because they could not afford proper medical care. I’m mainly interested in pursuing a career in health care administration. I’m not very comfortable working with people on a one on one basis, but I’d still like to do a job that provides meaningful help to low income and under insured people. I want to be able to try to find solutions and to create and administer programs that will provide a way for these people to receive the same quality care that people who have insurance are receiving. There is a definite lack of health care advantages for middle to low income households in our country and I think the problem to correcting...
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...Perspective on Health Care Greg McLean HCS/212 July 10, 2012 Dr. Pamela Buckman Perspective on Health Care The author will discuss his perspective on health care through his professional experience. He will compare historical information to his personal experiences in health care and discuss how they may have changed his role in health care. He will also discuss what area he currently works in, how health care reform has affected this field, and his thoughts on the changes health care reform has brought about. Positive and negative outcomes linked to demographic indicators and available resources for finding information on the history of health care in the United States will also be discussed. As a child growing up with asthma in a metropolitan area, (Brooklyn, New York), in the 1960’s, 1970’s, and 1980’s, the author can relate to changes in the health care field once he grew up and became a member of that field. Back in the 60’s and 70’s, the author would be admitted to the hospital and put in what was called an oxygen tent to assist with the opening of the airways and breathing. A shot of adrenalin was administered in later years on an outpatient basis which was more effective in alleviating the constricted airway. Now, depending on the severity of the illness, a patient could still be admitted to a facility but oxygen tents are a thing of the past. Breathing treatments and respiratory therapy are now in affect to assist the patient in opening the airway. The author...
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...Perspective on Health Care Lawrence Booker HCS/235 June 18, 2011 Dennis Phelps Abstract In my paper today I will be presenting my perspective on health care. I will describe what the word “health” means to me. I will describe my current position in health care and what new opportunities a bachelor’s degree in Health Administration will present in my current organization. It mentions my perspective on the career opportunities that a bachelors’ degree in Health Administration may offer. It describes the frequency of my access, cost, and experiences to health care. It explains my alternatives for care, and the cost associated with those visits. In paper the subject to describe is two other employers who are overlooked as part of health care that offer career opportunities. I will also describe one aspect of health care in the United States that I would change. In this paper health will be defined as the condition of being sound in body, mind, or spirit; freedom from physical disease or pain (Merriam-Webster, 2011). An individual health is usually considered good or bad depending on how well he or she can physically perform normal daily tasks like running, walking, breathing, eating and other activities associated with the five senses; sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch. As a Director of Imaging (DI) without a bachelors’ degree the career opportunities are restricted to DI. The employment trend in DI requires that all individuals seeking employment as...
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...Perspective on Health Care In chapter 1 of the text book I found that there have been historical changes that have affected me and my experience as a health care provider. For one, my knowledge of certain diseases and syndromes like Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) has changed my thinking and how treating a patient with this condition appropriately. According to "Basic Information About Hiv And Aids" (2011), “Both types of HIV damage a person’s body by destroying specific blood cells, called CD4+T cells, which are crucial to helping the body fight diseases.” With this knowledge and knowing this information I still use appropriate universal precautions when necessary. But I do wear a mask into a patient’s room that I am aware has this syndrome if I am having cold or flu like symptoms. My body is able to fight off infections but there body is not. Another change that has affected me with my present job is “The most important factor in the decline in mortality during the twentieth century was essential hygiene, supported by home and workplace improvements and attempts to improve the environment. Better hygiene accounts for approximately one-fifth of the reduction in mortality.” (Stanfield, Cross, & Hui, 2009, p. Chapter 1 Page 4) Hand washing and using universal precautions appropriately is required in a hospital setting due to all the different diseases we come into contact with. The health care reform under the Obama...
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...Perspective on Health Care Nicole Asta HCS/212 January 14, 2013 Patricia Wolcott Perspective on Health Care I’ll be honest the main reason I got interested in healthcare was because I have been obsessed with ER all my life. George Clooney was my dream doctor, and he still is today. But as I grew older and relised that my day dreams may never come true, I still remained interested in healthcare. However, I did make the critical reaslation that I detest blood and anything to do with it. However, I still enjoy learning and working in the healthcare field, on the technological side. I how that when I achieve my degree that I will be able to work some day in the CDC. In that regards, what I have always found most interesting, in the history of health care, is the development of the vaccinations and other for diseases. I also am interested in programs like the Center for the Control of Disease and Prevention (CDC) which was founded in 1946. As well as hospice programs, I am currently volunteering at a local hospice and enjoy it very much. As for the vaccinations, what interested was a long term interest in personal health. I have always been a rather healthy person, and rarely ever do I get sick. So when I did, I always wanted to know why I was sick. I read quite a bit about different illness and what was being done to prevent them. I would always read about the early 19th and 20th centuries. About, how many people died from contaminated water and food, inadequate living...
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...Consumers’ Perspective on Health Care Complete the Consumers’ Perspective on Health Care questionnaire. Answer each question based on your personal experiences as a consumer receiving health care services. Questions are related to real life experiences of services received, satisfaction with services, changes you have seen or experienced over time, benefits you have for insurance coverage, and local/national legislative changes you are aware of and their effects on or anticipated impact on your health care services as a consumer. Be prepared to discuss your completed responses in Week One. 1. What does “health care “mean to you? Health care to me means my physical, mental and emotional needs being managed, addressed and taken care of by my health care providers. 2. Are you currently employed in a health care delivery setting? If no, explain your interest in health care delivery in the United States. I am currently not employed in the health care delivery setting my interest in the setting stems from my son birth and health complications that he was born with. 3. Do you feel health care is your right or your privilege? Explain. I think that health care should be a common human right but, personally to me health care is a privilege that we cannot always afford. 4. How often do you access health care? Explain your answer. a. Seldom (every other year or longer) b. Annually c. Every six months I go to the doctor about every 6 months when I am very sick and...
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...Important Attributes Of Quality Health Care: Consumer Perspectives - Brief Article IMPORTANT ATTRIBUTES OF QUALITY HEALTH CARE: CONSUMER PERSPECTIVES M H Oermann, T Templine Journal of Nursing Scholarship Vol 32 no 2 (1998) 167-172 Personnel at contemporary health care agencies are identifying patient outcomes to evaluate services and patient care. This research focuses on consumer perspectives of high quality health care. Consumer perspectives or expectations have been found to be based on demographic characteristics, health care experiences, and specific concerns related to consumers' unique health problems. Further, patients evaluate their experiences by comparing their expectations to actual events. Satisfaction occurs when events match expectations. The purpose of this research was to allow consumers to identify important attributes of quality health and nursing care and to examine the relationship of consumer perspectives to health status and selected demographic variables. Method and sample. This exploratory study examined a convenience sample of 239 health care consumers, of which 50% were recruited from homes in neighborhoods of a large metropolitan area (ie, urban and suburban) in the Midwest, and 50% were recruited from waiting rooms of clinics in the same neighborhoods. These participants included 149 women (63.1%) and 87 men (36.9%). These gender totals equal 236, whereas previously stated the sample size was 239. This discrepancy was not addressed in the article...
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...Explain two theories of ageing- Discuss two major theories of ageing in relation to the development of the individual. Sawda Mahamoud Cumming and Henry were sociologists, who formed the disengagement theory. They strongly believed that the older people get the more they tend to depart from society and become more independent and less worried about others. However there are many risks which are linked with disengagement, this includes depression and seclusion. After the loss of his partner, John would have started to distance himself more from his loved ones and from society. He would have become less worried about his physical appearance, for example less exercise, which would have caused more health problems. Disengagement from society would have meant that John was no longer, up to date with society’s news causing him to be less knowledgably about his surroundings. This could have caused him to feel excluded from society and more depressed. John’s emotional development could be affected by the idea of losing loved ones; this could result in less social interaction leading to him feeling very secluded and alone. John’s emotional development could also cause him to feel a range of different emotions; however they could all end up developing into depression. An example, of John becoming socially disengaged is not spending time with his friends at the park or going to the pub, instead he decides to stay in his bed isolated. The idea that the elderly should stay social and...
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...relationship between income inequality and health coverage/status is an important area to examine because socioeconomic status has an effect on peoples health and lifespan. There are two theoretical perspectives, conflict and functional, that provide explanations for income inequality and health care coverage/status. Conflict perspective is the idea that social life is shaped by groups who compete with one another over resources. This results in a power struggle over wealth and prestige in society. The conflict theorist might predict that social inequality characterizes the quality of health and the quality of healthcare; that is, people with social disadvantageous are more likely to become ill than the socially elite, and because of their disadvantageous they will receive inadequate health care. The conflict theorist might assume that in order to make more money, physicians will try to self-regulate their practice of medicine in attempts to define social problems as medical problems....
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...314V WEEK 5 DISCUSSION 1 Explain telemedicine, and describe how it is typically being used in either a rural or an urban setting at the present time. For the setting you chose, what are telemedicine’s overall strengths? What are its overall weaknesses? Next, select an allied health profession and describe how telemedicine is now or could affect patient care in that field. In your responses to colleagues, select posts that discuss different settings and professions (if possible) and offer a fresh perspective or a novel approach as to how telemedicine could be more fully used. HLT 314V WEEK 5 DISCUSSION 2 Select a current or emerging trend in the delivery of health care or in professional practice from the allied health perspective in one of the following areas: (1) health care reform, (2) provider shortages, (3) practice trends, (4) leadership challenges, or (5) health IT. Provide a summary analysis of the trend, expected impacts on health care delivery or professional practice, and your assessment of the pros and cons. HLT 314V WEEK 5 ASSIGNMENT CLC – HEALTH CARE LITERACY PRESENTATION Details: This is a Collaborative Learning Community (CLC) assignment. Select two strategies focused on health care literacy for developing an intervention targeted to a selected population or cultural community. Use information and knowledge you have collectively gained from the course to create a PowerPoint slide presentation that accomplishes the following: 1. The presentation must incorporate...
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...Cost of Health Benefits Human Resource Management BMGT 6311 June 03, 2015 Jason Timberlake Citation/Source Christianson, Jon B.; Trude, Sally. (2003). Managing Costs, Managing Benefits: Employer Decisions in Local Health Care Markets. Health Services Research, 2003, Vol.38(1p2), pp.357-373 Major Thesis Benefit packages and options are a hot topic for employers. One of the biggest, albeit expensive, options is healthcare benefits. This introduces us to the decision making process of health benefits, how these strategies evolve over time, and how these employer decisions impact the local health care systems. The study described in this article is a Community Tracking Study (CTS), which is a study of how healthcare changes over a given period of time and the effects of these changes the people of the surrounding community. For this particular article, the time frame was a six year period covering twelve randomly selected communities. Results from healthcare benefit surveys are normally reported by several outlets, to include popular press and academic journals. These surveys and their respective results provide important information regarding healthcare changes, the current state of state and federal health systems, and out of pocket costs associated with these changes. Over the six year period of this study, the data collected compares two roles that employers have played in the local health care system. One role is private while the other is public. The focus...
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...Evolution of Community and Public Health Nursing Identify a minimum of 3 major events (or influences) in the evolution of community and public health nursing and describe how each event led to advancement of the field. For each event, describe the following: Key health issues at the time Perspectives and goals of community and public health nursing Roles and functions of community and public health nursing Community and public health partnerships at the time |Event or Influence: World War I | |Key health issues |Infectious and parasitic diseases, typhoid fever, diphtheria and scarlet fever were the main issues | | |addressed. | |Perspective/goals |The goal was to improve sanitation and reduce occurrences of the diseases. | |Role/functions |Keller and Strohschein (2012) states “in 1911 efforts to control typhoid fever in Yakima County, Washington, | | |and to improve health status in Guilford County, North Carolina, led to establishment of local health units | | |to serve local populations. Public health nurses were the primary staff members of local health departments. | | ...
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...Community and Public Health Nursing Identify a minimum of three major events (or influences) in the evolution of community and public health nursing and describe how each event led to advancement of the field. For each event, describe the following: Key health issues at the time Perspectives and goals of community and public health nursing Roles and functions of community and public health nursing Community and public health partnerships at the time |Event or Influence: Florence Nightingale | |Key health issues |Unclean patient environment, poor sanitary conditions delivered by “health care staff”. | |Perspective/goals |She identified a need and advocated for formalized training for women to be trained as nurses. | |Role/functions |She identified that lack of cleanliness in patient care clinical areas was directly linked to poor patient | | |outcomes. She pushed for sanitary conditions in areas where patient care such as dressing changes and wound | | |care were performed as well as cleanliness of equipment used in patient care to reduce the occurrence of | | |wound infections leading to lower death rates. | |Health partnerships ...
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...Assignment Title:- How can we apply sociological perspectives in HSC? |STUDENT DECLARATION | |I understand the rules of plagiarism and I declare that the work produced for this assignment is my own. | | | |Student Signature ____________________________________Date_____________ | |Assignment Launch Date |Tuesday 3rd November 2011 | |Assignment Hand in Dates |Assignment 1 |2011 | | |Assignment 2 |2011 | | | | | | | |GRADING CRITERIA | |To achieve a pass grade you must show that you |To achieve a merit you must show that you are |To achieve a distinction you must show | |are able to: |able to: ...
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