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  • Health Insurance Coverage in the State of Florida

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    After reading the background materials as well as additional information you find from the literature and online sources, respond to the following questions for this module’s SLP:
    1.Discuss the sources of health insurance coverage in your home state, or any state of your choosing, for the following groups:
    ◦Seniors age 65 and older
    ◦Children younger than 18
    ◦Low-income families with at least one child, whose family income is below 133% of the Federal Poverty Level
    ◦The self-employed
    ◦Employees of large companies (more than 100 employees)
    ◦Employees of small businesses
    ◦Part-time, temporary, and seasonal employees
    ◦The unemployed
    ◦College students
    2.Discuss whether the groups listed above need to contribute to the premiums of their health insurance.

    SLP Assignment Expectations

    Length: Write a 1-page paper.
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    reading

    Claxton, G. (2008). How Private Health Care Coverage Works: A Primer. A Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Report. Available at http://www.kff.org/insurance/upload/7766.pdf (Retrieved 11/21/2012)

    Eibner, C., Hussey, P., & Girosi, F. (2010) The Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Workers’ Health Insurance Coverage. New England Journal of Medicine, 363 (15), 1393-1395. Available at http://healthpolicyandreform.nejm.org/?p=12339 (Retrieved 11/21/2012)

    RAND Corporation. (2010). US Health Care Today: Coverage. Available at http://www.randcompare.org/us-health-care-today/coverage#current-levels-of-coverage (Retrieved 11/21/2012)

    Kaiser Family Foundation (2009). Health Insurance and Access to Health Care: the Evidence. Available at: http://kff.org/interactive/health-insurance-and-access-to-health-care-tutorial/

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  • Health Care Finance Distribution of national health spending

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    After reading the background materials as well as additional information you find from the literature and online sources, respond to the following:
    1.Identify the distribution of national health spending by type of financing source.
    2.Identify the distribution of health insurance coverage among the U.S. population.
    3.Discuss the impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the difficulties that might be encountered by those mandated to participate.
    4.Discuss the origin of employment-based health insurance.
    5.Explain the difference between fully insured and self-insured health plans.

    Assignment Expectations

    Length: Write a 1-page paper.Use headers throughout the paper. This will aid you in not overlooking vital elements of the assignment and make the document easier for the reader to follow.
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    Reading:

    Bodenheimer, T. (2005). High and Rising Health Care Costs. Part 1:
    Seeking an Explanation. Annals of Internal Medicine, 142 (10), 847-854. Available at: http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=718406

    Claxton, G. (2008). How Private Health Care Coverage Works: A Primer. A Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Report. Available at http://www.kff.org/insurance/upload/7766.pdf (Retrieved 11/21/2012)

    Eibner, C., Hussey, P., & Girosi, F. (2010) The Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Workers’ Health Insurance Coverage. New England Journal of Medicine, 363 (15), 1393-1395. Available at http://healthpolicyandreform.nejm.org/?p=12339 (Retrieved 11/21/2012)

    RAND Corporation. (2010). US Health Care Today: Coverage. Available at http://www.randcompare.org/us-health-care-today/coverage#current-levels-of-coverage (Retrieved 11/21/2012)

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  • Purnell’s Model Study of the Chinese Culture

    $45.00

    Background: In this module you will continue to explore different aspects of the culture that you selected in Module 1. As evidence of your completion of the SLP, you will combine your previous submissions and submit one paper addressing the constructs of Purnell’s model listed below, as well as all previous constructs. Subheadings should be used to address each requirement of the paper.

    Assignment
    1.Combine all previous submissions into one document.
    2.Discuss the Health Care Practices construct of Purnell’s model as it relates to your selected culture and address each of the sub-constructs listed below:

    ◦Focus on health care
    ◦Traditional practices
    ◦Magicoreligious religious beliefs
    ◦Responsibility for health
    ◦Transplantation
    ◦Rehabilitation/chronicity
    ◦Self-medication
    ◦Pain/sick role
    ◦Mental health
    ◦Barriers

    3.Discuss the Health Care Practitioners construct of Purnell’s model as it relates to your selected culture and address each of the sub-constructs listed below:

    ◦Perceptions of practitioners
    ◦Folk practitioners
    ◦Gender and health care

    SLP Assignment Expectations

    Use information from your module readings/articles as well as appropriate research to support your selection.

    Length: The final SLP assignment (integrated Modules 1-4) should be 3 pages long (double-spaced).

    References: At least 10 references must be included from academic sources (peer-reviewed journal articles) for the final paper. Required Reading is included. Quoted materials should not exceed 10% of the total paper (since the focus of these assignments is critical thinking). Use your own words and build on the ideas of others. Materials copied verbatim from external sources must be enclosed in quotation marks. In-text citations are required as well as a list of references at the end of the assignment. (APA format is recommended.)

    Organization: Subheadings should be used to organize your paper according to the questions.

    Format: APA format is recommended for this assignment.

    Grammar and Spelling: While no points are deducted for minor errors, assignments are expected to adhere to standard guidelines of grammar, spelling, punctuation, and sentence syntax. Points may be deducted if grammar and spelling impact clarity.

    Your assignment will not be graded until you have submitted an Originality Report with a score of <20%. Papers not meeting this requirement by the end of the session will receive a score of 0 (grade of F).

    The following items will be assessed in particular:
    •Achievement of learning outcomes for SLP assignment.
    •Relevance – All content is connected to the question.
    •Precision – Specific question is addressed. Statements, facts, and statistics are specific and accurate.
    •Depth of discussion – Points that lead to deeper issues are presented and integrated.
    •Breadth – Multiple perspectives and references, and multiple issues/factors are considered.
    •Evidence – Points are well supported with facts, statistics, and references.
    •Logic – Discussion makes sense; conclusions are logically supported by premises, statements, or factual information.
    •Clarity – Writing is concise and easy to understand, and contains sufficient detail or examples.
    •Objectivity – Avoids the use of first person and subjective bias.

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  • Principles of Cultural Competence in Everyday Practices

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    Strategies to Integrate Principles of Cultural Competence into Everyday Practices

    Assignment Expectations

    While submitting your paperwork for tuition reimbursement at your place of employment, your supervisor asks which course you have just finished. You proudly announce that you just earned an “A” in “Cross-Cultural Studies”. Your supervisor informs you that you will have an opportunity to share what you have learned in this course with others. Specifically, you are asked to prepare a presentation for a group of health care professionals (physicians, nurses, and therapists) on strategies that they can use to integrate principles of cultural competence into their everyday practices. You are asked to prepare a PowerPoint presentation including speaker’s notes (you will be penalized if your speaker’s notes are not included). In order to help you meet the requirements, your presentation should include:
    1.Discussion as to “why” cultural competence is important in health care .

    ◦Barriers to Communication
    ◦Patient-Centered Care

    2.Potential negative outcomes that could be associated with lack of cultural competence on the part of the health care provider.
    3.Methods that can be used to assess a client’s cultural beliefs.
    4.Strategies that the health care professionals can use to enhance cross-cultural competence .

    ◦Cultural Immersion
    ◦Adaptability
    ◦Training

    5.Sources of information where the members of the group can go to learn about members of different cultures [HINT: We had a really good discussion about this topic a few weeks ago.]
    6.Include a reference list at the end in a concluding slide. Also, provide the necessary citations in your presentation/speaker’s notes.

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  • Purnell’s Model Nutrition Construct – American Vs. Chinese Culture

    $15.00

    SLP Background: In this module, you will continue to explore different aspects of the culture that you selected in Module 1. As evidence of your progress, you will submit a paper addressing the constructs of Purnell’s model that are listed below. Subheadings should be used to address each requirement of the paper.

    Assignment
    1.Discuss the Nutrition construct of Purnell’s model as it relates to your selected culture and address each of the sub-constructs listed below:

    ◦Meaning of food
    ◦Common foods
    ◦Rituals
    ◦Deficiencies
    ◦Limitations
    ◦Health Promotion

    2.Discuss the High-Risk behaviors construct of Purnell’s model as it relates to your selected culture and address each of the sub-constructs listed below:

    ◦Tobacco
    ◦Alcohol
    ◦Recreational drugs
    ◦Physical activity
    ◦Safety

    3.Discuss the Death Rituals construct of Purnell’s model as it relates to your selected culture and address each of the sub-constructs listed below:

    ◦Death Rituals
    ◦Bereavement

    4.Discuss the Spirituality construct of Purnell’s model as it relates to your selected culture and address each of the sub-constructs listed below:

    ◦Religious practices
    ◦Use of prayer
    ◦Meaning of life
    ◦Individual strength
    ◦Spirituality and health

    SLP Assignment Expectations

    Use information from your module readings/articles as well as appropriate research to support your selection.

    Length: The SLP assignment should be 2 pages long (double-spaced).

    References: At least three references must be included from academic sources (peer-reviewed journal articles). Required reading is included. Quoted materials should not exceed 10% of the total paper (since the focus of these assignments is critical thinking). Use your own words and build on the ideas of others. Materials copied verbatim from external sources must be enclosed in quotation marks. In-text citations are required as well as a list of references at the end of the assignment. (APA format is recommended.)

    Organization: Subheadings should be used to organize your paper according to the questions.

    Format: APA format is recommended for this assignment

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  • Case Assignment: English-only Policy in the Workplace

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    Case Assignment: English-only Policy in the Workplace

    Assignment Overview

    Background: This module’s Case Assignment deals with an age-old debate, and you are required to prepare an argument. The board of directors of a health care institution is about to vote on a policy to mandate the exclusive use of the English language in the workplace. This policy will require all employees to speak only English while in the workplace. This action has come about as a result of increasing numbers of members of minority groups being hired by the organization, leading to complaints from employees and customers.

    Case Assignment

    A group of board members believes in cultural and linguistic diversity, but they do not have the background to present their argument at the board meeting. This group also knows that you are taking a cultural competence course and they ask you to research the impact of such a policy, providing evidence from the literature. You are asked to provide the following information, focusing on the impact on the organization’s culture in a 2-page paper:
    1.Rationale for and against this policy.
    2.Benefits of cultural and linguistic inclusion.
    3.Drawbacks of cultural and linguistic inclusion.
    4.Propose ways all members of the organization’s staff can feel included and part of the company, despite your decision to accept or reject the proposed policy.

    Assignment Expectations

    Use information from your module readings/articles as well as appropriate research to support your selection.

    Length: The Case Assignment should be 2 pages long (double-spaced).

    References: At least three references must be included from academic sources (peer-reviewed journal articles). Required reading is included. Quoted materials should not exceed 10% of the total paper (since the focus of these assignments is critical thinking). Use your own words and build on the ideas of others. Materials copied verbatim from external sources must be enclosed in quotation marks. In-text citations are required as well as a list of references at the end of the assignment. (APA format is recommended.)

    Organization: Subheadings should be used to organize your paper according to the questions.

    Format: APA format is recommended for this assignment.

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  • Comprehensive Preparedness Approach for the state of New Jersey

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    Comprehensive Preparedness Approach for the state of New Jersey

    A comprehensive preparedness approach for that threat within a New Jersey State. Be sure that your final paper includes mention of how the rapidly changing physical world might impact the New Jersey State. I will provide a paper sample

    Contents:

    • Introduction and Purpose
    • The State’s Situational Analysis, Demographics, and Assumptions
    • Possible Hazards and Vulnerabilities
    • The State’s Comprehensive Preparedness Approach
    • Conclusion

    16 pages

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  • Alternative methods of providing warning/evacuation messages

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    Sociologists and anthropologists have shown us that the way that people process communications about warnings or need to evacuate from an on-coming storm, wildfire or other hazard, is often greatly influenced by the language and culture in which people have grown up. In multi-cultural societies such as the United States, this means that EM needs to be prepared to use a variety of communications modalities in order to deliver warning and evacuation orders. Please provide two examples of alternative methods of providing warning/evacuation messages. Assume that the hazard is for a massive landslide, such as took place in Oso, Washington last year. After heavy rains on a mountainside that has suffered from forest loss due to logging, geologists are seeing signs that a massive landslide may occur. Assume that the population is made up of English-speaking Anglo-Americans, Spanish speaking immigrant workers, and several hundred members of a Native American (American Indian) tribe living between a river and the mountainside that is in danger of falling.

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  • Women’s bodily adaptations to pregnancy

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    Four major hormones of pregnancy, describe a women’s bodily adaptations to pregnancy

    Readings:
    http://www.open.edu/openlearnworks/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=37&printable=1

    http://www.hadassah-med.com/giving-birth/hadassah-birthing-club/throughout-pregnancy/physiological-changes-during-pregnancy

    http://www.healthline.com/health/pregnancy/bodily-changes-during

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