Assignment Overview

The journal is a record of reflections about your own experiences, attitudes, opinions, and feelings in relation to the material and within the context of the themes we are examining in the course. Each entry should explore the content of the week’s topic in relation to your own experience and academic knowledge. The entries are to critically engage with the resources and dialogue provided in the course.

Assignment Instructions

Think back on your own experience and past perspective. Based on this week’s course material and discussion forum, reflect on the following questions:

1. Why was it important for the ancient Israelites to remember their story?
2. How does the biblical story connect to your own life story?

Assignment Scope

• Submission at least 500 words
• Written in Times New Roman font
• Written in 12 point font
• Paper is double-spaced

 

Supporting Lectures:

Refer the following lecture:

• Delivering Culturally Appropriate Services

Reducing Health Disparities

In 2011, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published the first CDC Health Disparities and Inequalities Report (CHDIR). This report examined health disparities in the United States associated with various characteristics, including race/ethnicity, sex, income, education, disability status, and geography.

Among other recommendations, the 2011 CHDIR emphasized the need to address health disparities with a dual intervention strategy that focuses on populations at greatest need and improves the health of the general population by making interventions available to everyone.

Review the following PDF to learn more:

MMWR: Strategies for Reducing Health Disparities—Selected CDC-Sponsored Interventions, United States, 2014

Create a 4- to 5-page Microsoft Word document that addresses the following:

• Compare the patterns of the major diseases of Hispanic/Latino groups and their rates and health effects between the other racial or ethnic groups living in the United States.
• Identify at least one consequence that a lack of access to healthcare has on Hispanics/Latinos.
• Explain why access to care issues will need to be monitored even more closely within the U.S. healthcare system beginning 2014.
• Find at least two scholarly journal articles that discuss all or at least one of the topic areas related to Hispanic/Latino health disparities in the United States. Provide a synopsis of each article.
• Explain what type of barrier(s) (structural, financial, or socio-cultural) each article examines? Describe at least two policies or strategies that can be implemented to improve access to healthcare services as they relate to the articles you reviewed.

Submission Details:

• Name your document SU_PHE4120_W4_Project_LastName_FirstInitial.doc.
• Submit your report to Submissions Area by the due date assigned.
• Cite any sources in APA format.
• Support your responses with examples.

  

Hello,

Please, there are terminologies you do not change went writing my papers such as people, population, intervention, program, health issue, targeted population, and lot more live it the way it is because, once you change those words the paper sound different. Please, from this day forth, if you’re rewriting papers for me, use the reference because that is a direct link to the article, journal, or a textbook read and understand and rewrite base on your understanding of your words. Please find the attached papers re-write the paper with clear understanding, and make it plagiarize free based on the question. Also, please rewrite it from paragraph to paragraph and do not mix up the paragraph. For example, do not make paragraphs one, two, or three; the paper will make no sense because the attached document is 70% plagiarized. Please, take your time to read it over because will only deal with someone who follows the instruction of my paper(s) 

Another thing, please, in my papers, can you minimize the use of PASSIVE VOICE all over my papers. For example, being included, are located, be considered, be accomplished, and the use of too many that, the & more in a sentence.

Thanks

  

“Salmonella in the Caribbean.” Then, address the following critical elements in your short paper:

II. Health Issue: In this section of your final project, you will analyze the health issue in focus in the research study.

A. Describe the risk factors associated with the public health issue. Support your description with evidence from the research study and

your independent research.

B. Describe the mode of transmission of the public health issue. Support your description with evidence from the research study and your

independent research.

C. Determine the incidence and prevalence of the health issue using the data from the research study to perform the appropriate calculations. Tip:

Use the data in Table 1 of the final project research study to calculate the incidence of the Total of Serotypes. Also, use the incidence to help you

determine the prevalence of the disease.

D. Determine the mortality rate of the health issue using the data from the research study to perform the appropriate calculations.

E. Interpret the odds ratio to determine the strength of association between the potential sources of exposure and the disease. Tip: Use the data in

Table 2 of the final project research study to calculate the odds ratio.

Rubric

Guidelines for Submission: Your paper should be a 1- to 2-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch

margins, and APA formatting and citations.

  

ECON545 Paper Project 1

The Microeconomic Paper tests your ability to apply economic principles to a business decision. Select one situation from the items outlined below: A to D. Complete the paper on the selected situation as specified below. The completed paper is a professional report and is due in Week 3 (130 points). See the grading rubric at the end of this document.  For sources of data, you can choose from the list presented at the end of this document.

The following is a list of the specific required information, research, graphs, and math to be included in each answer regardless of the scenario chosen.

1. Demand Determinants:

a. Each individual determinant analyzed for your situation, with examples applicable to your situation (3 points each) and research (2 points each) showing current demand data or most recent past data, except for the expectations determinant in which you need to use data estimating future market conditions. 

b. (10 points) Price Elasticity of Demand facing you in your scenario, including actual calculation of it using the midpoint formula. If you can’t find data, then determine the price elasticity from the characteristics and make up numbers to use. Be sure to identify this if you use this approach. This will help you in deciding the slope of your demand curve below.

c. (5 points) Graph the demand facing your situation. Note that this requires information from the supply determinant analysis before deciding how to draw the curve(s), as you may need a separate MR curve.

2. Supply Determinants:

a. Each individual determinant analyzed for your situation, with examples applicable to your situation (3 points each) and research (2 points each) showing current supply data or most recent past data, except for the expectations determinant in which you need to use data estimating future market conditions. 

i. (20 points) You need to be very specific in the cost of production determinant to identify fixed, variable, and marginal cost in order to derive your supply curve for the graphing component. You will need to explain and show how profit maximization or loss minimization output and price are determined. You will need to do the math using actual figures [cited] or your own estimated figures [identified as such] and explain why you expect short run economic or normal profits, acceptable loss or temporary shutdown, and how you will know which it is.

ii. The number of sellers determinant must contain your analysis of the kind of market structure in which your firm or labor service will be sold. 

b. (10 points) Price Elasticity of Supply you have based on the cost of production changes as output changes, including actual calculation of it using the midpoint formula. If you can’t find data, then determine the price elasticity from the characteristics and make up numbers to use. Be sure to identify this if you use this approach. This will help you in deciding the slope of your supply curve.

c. (5 points) Graph your supply situation using the numbers from your earlier cost of production analysis.

3. Recommendations—(40 points) what are your recommendations explained by your analysis?

4. Paper presentation—(10 points) good format, citations, lack of spelling errors, etc. 

Situation A

Jenny, your niece, is a smart high-school student who wants to make smart choices for her future. Hearing of your course in Business Economics, she has emailed you asking for advice on whether to become a medical doctor and on the best location to practice it. She recognizes the high costs of tuition and the years of study involved in becoming a doctor. She wants to evaluate if that career choice is an optimum decision for her. So she has asked you for advice.

Having read the introduction to Chapter 1 on page 3 of the textbook, you recognize the significance of such a career decision for Jenny. You decide to examine the career choice in terms of the utility it provides to Jenny: return on investment as well as personal satisfaction of contributing to the well-being of others. But to evaluate the utility, you also need to identify and quantify the total opportunity costs of the decision. You decide to educate yourself about the market for physicians in terms of supply and demand, elasticity, costs of production, pricing, and normal profit. You want to provide Jenny with the most informed advice possible. 

Situation B

Your neighbor Cindy wants to start a contracting business for installing solar panels. She has heard of the cost savings that households and businesses can make each year from installing solar panels on the roofs. Cindy has also heard of government incentives for installing solar panels. Being concerned about the environment and wishing to reduce pollution, Cindy thinks installing solar panels also serves a social purpose. But she does not want to risk her life’s savings on a venture that might not succeed or become profitable enough. After hearing from you about taking this course in Business Economics, she decides to ask you for advice.

At first you were hesitant to give investment advice. Then you read the section “Losing Money in the Solar Panel Industry” on pages 402-403 of the textbook, and the need for differentiation in Chapter 13. You realize there are more pieces to the decision than Cindy is considering. You decide to research the market in terms of supply and demand, elasticity, costs of production, pricing, normal profit, and savings for consumers. You want to provide Cindy with the most informed advice possible

Situation C

Cousin Edgar is always thinking of the next business idea. This time, he plans to invest in buying two gas stations. He reckons American consumers have come to accept the high gasoline prices, and estimates world prices for gasoline will increase even further due to increasing high demand from India and China. Besides, Cousin Edgar thinks he will make a good profit on the sale of convenience items at each station. But before buying the gas stations, he decides to ask for your advice since you are taking this course in Business Economics.

You recall reading about making pricing decisions for gasoline on pages 173-174 of the textbook. You also recall reading about perfectly competitive markets in Chapter 12, and the need for differentiation in Chapter 13. Being skeptical of Cousin Edgar’s optimism on the profitability of selling gasoline and convenience items, you decide to research the market in terms of supply and demand, elasticity, costs of production, pricing, and normal profit. You want to provide Cousin Edgar with the most informed advice possible. 

Situation D

After hearing of your taking this course in Business Economics, your college friend has emailed you asking for advice on opening a restaurant. Your friend Rajeev reminded you of his popular recipes for Indian food, and shared his dream of building a franchise business modeled on the P.F. Chang chain of restaurants. He reckons that creating special fusion recipes based on a popular ethnic cuisine will provide the restaurant chain with sufficient differentiation to become profitable and to grow nationwide.

Luckily before you could find time to answer Rajeev’s email, you read the pieces on Starbucks and opening a restaurant, on page 425 of the textbook. Recognizing the costs and risks for Rajeev, you decide to research the market in terms of supply and demand, elasticity, production costs, pricing, normal profit, and the supply chain for ethnic cuisine. You decide to educate yourself about the restaurant business so you can provide Rajeev with the most informed advice possible. 

Microeconomic Paper as a Professional Report 

Your paper should be organized into five parts as listed below. 

1. Title Page—Name, course, and date

2. Introduction to situation, but do NOT copy the scenario. Briefly summarize the situation and identify the microeconomic issue(s) to be decided from the perspective of the organization. 

3. Relevant Economic Principles: Determinants of Demand, Supply, etc. and Relevant Data

Identify the variables that are critical in addressing the issue(s). Gather and present the relevant data on the variables by searching the DeVry Online Library. Ask a librarian for help if needed. Use in-text citation to report the source(s) of the data. Graphs may be included here.

4. Recommendations and Economic Justification

Formulate and present your recommendations for addressing the issue(s) based on the relevant data and economic principles identified above. Justify your recommendations in terms of the economic impact on those affected. 

5. References

List the full references for at least five sources alphabetically in APA format. 

Grading Rubric

  

Section

Points earned

Points

Description

 

Paper Presentation

10

Good format, citations, lack of spelling   errors, etc.

Correct Title page and Reference pages

 

Relevant Data: Demand: 30 points

Supply: 50 points

80

Demand Determinants and Research Data (15   points)

Price Elasticity of Demand (10 points)

Graph of Demand (5 points)

Supply Determinants and Research Data (15   points + Profit Max/Cost of Production Analysis = 20 points for total of 35   points)

Price Elasticity of Supply (10 points)

Supply graph (5 points)

 

Recommendations 

40

What are your recommendations explained by   your analysis?

 

Total

130

A quality paper meets   or exceeds these requirements

Data Sources

1. DeVry Online Library: 

· Data bases for related articles

· Data bases for industry reports; IBISWorld in particular.

· ProQuest Statistical Abstracts of U.S.:  http://library.devry.edu/pdfs/STATISTICAL_ABSTRACTS__US.pdf

2. Industry Associations

· Association of American Medical Colleges: https://www.aamc.org/

· American Medical Association (AMA): http://www.ama-assn.org/ama

· Council on Graduate Medical Education (COGME): http://www.hrsa.gov/advisorycommittees/bhwadvisory/cogme/

· National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS): http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/

· Solar Energy Industries Association: http://www.seia.org/

· The Solar Foundation: http://www.thesolarfoundation.org/

· The National Restaurant Association: http://www.restaurant.org/

· NACS – The Association for Convenience & Fuel Retailing: http://www.nacsonline.com/Pages/default.aspx

3. Private Research Groups

· The Rand Corporation: http://www.rand.org/

· University of Michigan: http://css.snre.umich.edu/; http://www.sca.isr.umich.edu/

· The Conference Board: https://www.conference-board.org/data/bcicountry.cfm?cid=1

· OECD: http://www.oecd.org/eco/economicoutlook.htm

· IMF: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2015/01/

4. U.S. Government Websites:

· Statistical Abstracts of U.S.: https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/statistical-abstract-of-the-united-states

· International Trade Administration: http://www.trade.gov/

· National Renewable Energy Laboratory: http://www.nrel.gov/

· National Center for Health Statistics: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/

· U.S. Department of Energy: http://www.energy.gov/

· U.S. Energy Information Administration: http://www.eia.gov/

· Bureau of Labor Statistics: http://www.bls.gov/

· Bureau of Economic Analysis: http://www.bea.gov/

· Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab): https://www.lbl.gov/

· U.S. Census Bureau: http://www.census.gov/; http://www.census.gov/econ/bes/; http://www.census.gov/economic-indicators/

· U.S. Department of Commerce: http://www.commerce.gov/; http://export.gov/; http://business.usa.gov/; http://www.esa.doc.gov/content/indicators

· Statistical Abstracts of U.S.: https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/statistical-abstract-of-the-united-states; https://catalog.data.gov/dataset?q=business+expense&sort=none&ext_location=&ext_bbox=&ext_prev_extent=-142.03125%2C8.754794702435617%2C-59.0625%2C61.77312286453146