Economics

HCM 320 Milestone Two Guidelines and Rubric

Overview: For Milestone Two, you will describe for your audience the nature of your chosen public health issue, so that they will be able to understand and appreciate your presentation. Building upon your Milestone One worksheet submission, your analysis will include the economic principles and impacts of the principles involved with your public health issue, related socioeconomic factors, and the healthcare organizations impacted. Use the feedback you received on Milestone One to assist you in developing your introduction.

Submit your analysis as a short paper that you may use to develop speaker’s notes for your final presentation.

Prompt: Describe for your audience the nature of your chosen public health issue, including the economic considerations involved.

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

I. Analysis of the Health Issue: A. Outline the underlying economic principles and indicators at play using specific examples. To what extent do those principles and indicators

apply in understanding your chosen public health issue? B. Demonstrate the economic impacts of your public health issue. Provide specific examples of each impact. C. Analyze the larger context within which your chosen public health issue exists. To what extent is the issue a product of larger socioeconomic

factors? D. Examine the major healthcare organizations impacted by the public health issue. How are they currently acting and reacting to the issue?

Rubric Guidelines for Submission: Your paper must be submitted as a 2- to 3-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and at least three sources cited in APA format.

Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (75%) Not Evident (0%) Value

Analysis of the Health Issue: Economic Principles and

Indicators

Outlines the underlying economic principles and indicators at play, using specific examples

Outlines the underlying economic principles and indicators at play, but there are inaccuracies or the outline lacks specific examples

Does not outline the underlying economic principles and indicators at play

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Analysis of the Health Issue: Economic Impacts

Demonstrates the economic impacts of the public health issue and provides specific examples of each impact

Demonstrates the economic impacts of the public health issue, but there are inaccuracies or the demonstration fails to provide specific examples of each impact

Does not demonstrate the economic impacts of the public health issue

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Analysis of the Health Issue: Socioeconomic Factors

Analyzes the larger context within which the public health issue exists by qualifying the extent to which the issue is a product of larger socioeconomic factors

Analyzes the larger context within which the public health issue exists, but fails to fully or accurately qualify the extent to which the issue is a product of larger socioeconomic factors

Does not analyze the larger context within which the public health issue exists

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Analysis of the Health Issue: Healthcare Organizations

Examines the major healthcare organizations impacted by the public health issue, including their actions and reactions to the issue

Examines the major healthcare organizations impacted by the issue, but fails to fully or accurately explain their actions and reactions to the issue

Does not examine the major healthcare organizations impacted by the issue

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Articulation of Response Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization

Submission has major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas

Submission has critical errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding of ideas

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Total 100%