Healthcare System
Public Health and Healthcare System
Textbook :
Riegelman, R. K. (2015). Public health 101: Healthy people--healthy populations (2nd ed.). Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett.
Instructions: Please ensure to substantiate your response with scholarly sources or a personal account of your own experience in the work place. Cite and reference work! Must be 150 to 175 word count.
1. This overview and begins an important discussion of what is likely to be in your future as Healthcare Administrators. As you read this doc, what do you believe will be 1-2 of the most impactful changes in healthcare in the next couple of years?? Thoughts on this? See attached WK Overview4
2. Please highlight two things you found most interesting about Chapter 10. See Chapter 10 attached
3. Please highlight two things you found most interesting about Chapter 11. See Chapter 11 attached
4. Please highlight two things you found most interesting about Chapter 12. See Chapter 12 attached
5. Read and discuss the article "U.S. Healthcare Ranked Dead Last Compared to 10 Other Countries."
Any surprises there?
6. Read and discuss the article "Health Care Systems: Three International Comparisons."
https://web.stanford.edu/class/e297c/poverty_prejudice/soc_sec/health.htm
7. Watch the "Public Health Departments and Hospitals Collaborating More Frequently" video.
8. Supporting public health goals
How does the system of health care provision in the U.S. support goals of public health? Provide an example.
9. Public Health and the Health Care System
How have you personally seen the connection between public health and the health care system?
Provide an example.
10. Submit THIS PART SEPARETELY!! For the next newsletter, you have been asked to write about the effect of a specific communicable disease on your community.
Identify a communicable disease to research (New Jersey-State) don’t write about Ebola!
Write an 850- to 1,050-word paper summarizing your research. Include the following information:
· Describe the disease and discuss efforts to control it.
· Identify the environmental factors related to this disease.
· Explain the influence of lifestyles, socioeconomic status, and disease management.
· Identify gaps and how you might connect to other resources to meet needs that are not locally available.
· Include recommendations to expand the community's programs if there are gaps.
· Describe what the public health department is doing to reduce the threat of the disease.
· Include data findings, evidence-based intervention, and a plan to ensure quality health.
Include at least 3 APA formatted references.