Please write a Paragraph answering to this discussion below with your opinion. Please include citations and references in alphabetical order in case of another source.

For the past four decades, healthcare spending has skyrocketed as well as their costs. With the changes in health care coverage or the lack of having coverage has prompted families to delay health care. The increase in average mortality rate has increased the number of chronic illness the practitioners are attempting to manage at clinics. The more people that need to be seen the less appointment spaces that are available, forcing patient to seek medical treatment from the Emergency Rooms. This leads to overcrowding and extended wait periods to be seen.

Rising health care costs in the private sector have translated into significant insurance premium increases, unemployment, and stagnant real wages. The hourly wage growth of health benefits has stalled since 2000; while inflation adjusted family health insurance premiums have increased 58% according to the Senator Whitehouse report.

When we take a look at the health care system today, the overpriced and unnecessary services, excessive administrative costs, inefficiently delivered care, not using preventative measures, and Medical fraud cases all
are contributing to the excessive health care costs. Taking all of these things into consideration could be used to improve health care without increasing the cost and bettering the quality of care that American receives.

Reference:

Health Care Delivery System Reform and the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (2012, March). Found at: http://www.amia.org/sites/amia.org.files/senator-whitehouse-report.pdf.

Topic i choose was : SHORTAGE OF NURSES IN THE HEALTH INDUSTRY

The culminating project for this course is a comprehensive PowerPoint presentation, due in Workshop Six, on health policy research. For detailed information on how your presentation will be assessed, refer to the Assessment Criteria found in Workshop Six, 6.2 Final Project.

Your presentation will cover a credible healthcare policy research project that has already been conducted, and will illustrate research methodology, compliance with HIPAA and IRB regulations, how one step of the research process was conducted, and the way you would drive the policy into application/implementation,

The purpose of this project is to familiarize you with how healthcare issues (for example, obesity, smoking cessation, nutrition, or other national health needs) are funded, researched, made into healthcare policy, and then driven into implementation through legislation. For the health policy project you chose or were assigned, you will use all of the information presented throughout the course and will document the 10 “Steps in Conducting Health Policy Research,” 10 STEPS IN POLICY RESERACH

Conceptualization
groudwork
methods
design
sampling
mesuament
data collection
data processing
data analysis
application

There should be a brief summary or bullet point for each step. Next, you will choose one of these elements to describe in detail.

Included in this PowerPoint presentation will be the writing of one aspect of the policy manual you would present to the Institutional Review Board (IRB), concerning your health policy research topic. You will also document:

• The health policy research data sources you used
• How research data—qualitative and quantitative—was collected
• The use of qualitative and quantitative methodologies to collect data
• The research conducted and its evaluation
• HIPAA and IRB compliance
• Research and case studies used
• Sampling and measurement
• Conclusions of the healthcare policy and how it is to be implemented

For example, healthcare policy research for “obesity in children” would result in policies and supporting research on:

• Emphasizing good eating classes in public/private schools and home
• Providing only proper nutrition in school food (no fast food or soda)
• Improving physical education for the family
• Offering classes on healthy living for parents and children
• Passing and implementing legislation (consider Exhibit 8.1, page 190, in your textbook, Introduction to Health Policy)

You will be required to provide facts and figures to substantiate your findings.

The Purpose:

The purpose of this assignment is to allow you to reflect on and discuss concepts related to the geographic evolution of North America .

The Assignment:

The Issue: Two terms that are continually in our consciousness as we examine the geographic evolution of our country are “West” and “Frontier.” What do these terms mean to you? What do they mean to the authors of your textbook? ( McIlwraith, Thomas F. and Muller, Edward K., 2001 (2nd edition); North America: the Historical Geography of a Changing Continent) In the last few weeks of this class, we are looking at the western half of the country – the American West of fact and fiction; yet, prior to that we studied the Trans-Appalachian West. So, clearly there is ambiguity in the term “West.” Is it a place or a process?

And, “Frontier” – Where is that? What is that? Is it a place or a process? There are no clear answers to these questions; but you are all capable of offering some enlightened, and informed, opinions.

Your tasks in this assignment are as follows:

The West as a Place…..(minimum of 450 words)
1) First, spend some time just looking at various maps of the United States, maps that show any combination of attributes of physical and cultural geography. You may see political boundaries, the physical landscape, cultural features, etc. Then after several hours of quiet contemplation…..and talking with friends and family members:

2) Identify the boundaries of the geographic region that we know as the American West – north, south, east and west, or whatever. Explain in detail why you selected the boundaries as you did? Attempt to “think outside the box.” Be creative, be different, be original! The important thing to remember is that there is NOT any one correct answer. Perhaps you will define the American West in a way that nobody has thought of before. Eh?

3) After completing the previous task, write a serious and thoughtful essay in which you justify your definition of the region – why the boundaries are where you put them and what common characteristics of geography (cultural and physical) bind the region together. In other words, what is the West, where is the West, and what distinguishes it from other regions of the USofA.?

The West as a Process….(minimum of 350 words)

4) Now take on the task of defining the “frontier” in American history. What was it? What is it? Where is it? What characteristics define it? Do the terms “west” and “frontier” mean different things to you? I realize that these two essays overlap, and that is OK; but please attempt to write two separate, stand-alone, essays. You can do it – you are good, and you are creative!

Write a really good essay to accomplish this task and be sure to use some examples to support your comments

Final Note: Your formal essays must include proper citations to the sources you use; and I do expect that you will use some sources for this assignment – sources in the library, in your textbook, and/or online – this new world of web site citations is difficult, and the links below are a good guide. For those of you who need minimum requirements, you are required to use a minimum of five (properly referenced) sources for this assignment

For each questions, you need to write a short paragraphs (150-200 words) to answer each of the questions. I’ve posted the slides that might help you to understand better on questions. Since questions are mostly asking for subjective answers, you don’t have to read all the slides. Thank you.

1.What sense do you depend on the most and what sense do you depend on the least? Support your answer.

2.Of the three ways of learning in the book, what way do you think you learn best and why?

3.What do you think is the biggest problem with your memory at this time in your life?

4.How do you make decisions and solve problems?

Letter to the Future

For this Assignment, you will consider women’s experiences in the global age, addressing the progress made between the first and third waves of feminism. You will write a letter to a person 100 years in the future indicating what still needs to be accomplished, as well as your goals/dreams for the American woman of the future. You will address the three waves of feminism and share your assessment of women’s experiences in a global age in connection to the Unit 9 Reading material. This Assignment provides an opportunity for you to share your thoughts on perspectives of women in the modern era.

Content: In your letter to an individual 100 years in the future, you will want to share your thoughts on women’s accomplishments in the 20th and 21st Centuries.

• Include your assessment of the third wave of feminism. What are the accomplishments of the three waves of feminism? How do the accomplishments of the decades of the 1960s to present differ from those of the early 20th Century?
• Address your thoughts on the accomplishments of women between 1990 and present, and ask your future reader what his or her world is like in terms of women’s experiences. Include what you think may need to be accomplished in the 21st Century. What are your thoughts on the existence of the feminist movement? Ask your future reader questions such as whether or not feminism is significant in the future.
• Describe your goals and dreams for the American woman of the future.

APA formatting:

Connections to the Unit 9 Reading material are required for this Assignment.

Word Count:

The Assignment should be at least 500 words, and should employ connections to the Unit 9 Reading material.

Please make sure it is written in APA format thank you.

Here is the book we used

Title: Through Women’s Eyes: An American History with Documents Edition: 4th (2016) Author: Ellen Carol Dubois, Lynn Dumenil and that chapter we looked at this week is chapter 12 677-715