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Overview

Letters to the editor can be a platform for experts in their fields to share perspectives on debated issues of the day. As a healthcare professional, you are uniquely positioned to compare the United States to other health systems around the globe. Despite the high expenditures in the United States, outcomes are still poor compared to other nations. Why is there a mismatch between healthcare spending and outcomes in the United States? How does the United States compare to other developed and developing countries?

Prompt

You have been invited to provide a letter to the editor of a scholarly health journal. The editor has requested that you identify the financial impacts of health and non-health policies in developed and developing countries. Specifically, how do these policies impact cost expenditures in the United States? Be sure to include specific points evaluating healthcare infrastructure, political barriers, and social inequities impacting health outcomes in developed and developing societies.

Note that you should cite at least three scholarly sources from your investigation. The evidence should not be older than five years. To access the Shapiro Library Guide: Nursing—Graduate, go to the Start Here section of the course.

Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

1. Healthcare Costs: Explain the causes of high healthcare spending in the United States compared to other developed and developing countries.
   1. Structural Causes: Describe the healthcare infrastructure of the United States and compare it to those of other countries. In what ways do these structural components drive up healthcare spending in the United States?
   2. Political Causes: Analyze health and non-health policies in the United States and compare them to those of other countries. In what ways do these political factors drive up healthcare spending in the United States?
2. Healthcare Outcomes: Explain the results of high healthcare spending in the United States compared to other developed and developing countries.
   1. Effectiveness: Evaluate the healthcare outcomes of the United States considering its spending. To what extent does the United States benefit from its high healthcare spending compared to other nations?
   2. Inequities: Evaluate the inequities generated by healthcare costs in the United States as compared to other countries. To what extent do healthcare outcomes differ amongst various groups in the United States?

Guidelines for Submission

Your submission should be a 2- to 3-page Word document. You must also include an APA-style title page. Use 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins. Sources should be cited according to APA style. Keep in mind that the letters to the editor of professional journals should be clear and concise and written in the third person.

Criteria	Exemplary (100%)	Proficient (90%)	Needs Improvement (70%)	Not Evident (0%)	Value
Healthcare Costs: Structural Causes	Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner	Describes the healthcare infrastructure of the United States by comparing it to other countries and describes ways these structural components drive up spending in the United States	Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions	Does not attempt criterion	20
Healthcare Costs: Political Causes	Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner	Analyzes health and non-health policies in the United States, compares to another country, and describes ways political factors drive up healthcare spending in the United States	Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions	Does not attempt criterion	20
Healthcare Outcomes: Effectiveness	Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner	Analyzes U.S. health outcomes and the extent to which the United States benefits from its high healthcare spending compared to other nations	Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions	Does not attempt criterion	20
Healthcare Outcomes: Inequities	Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner	Evaluates inequities found in the United States generated by high healthcare costs and how inequities differ among various groups in the United States	Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions	Does not attempt criterion	20
Articulation of Response	Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear and insightful manner	Clearly conveys meaning with correct grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, demonstrating an understanding of audience and purpose	Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors in grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, negatively impacting readability	Submission has critical errors in grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, preventing understanding of ideas	5
Scholarly Sources	Incorporates more than three scholarly, current (within the last five years) sources, or use of sources is exceptionally insightful	Incorporates three scholarly, current (within the last five years) sources that support claims	Incorporates fewer than three scholarly, current (within the last five years) sources, or not all sources support claims	Does not incorporate sources	10
APA Style	Formats in-text citations and reference list according to APA style with no errors	Formats in-text citations and reference list according to APA style with fewer than five errors	Formats in-text citations and reference list according to APA style with five or more errors	Does not format in-text citations and reference list according to APA style	5
Total:	100%

Module Two Activity Rubric