HSA 551 WEEK 6 DISCUSSION

“Threats from Manufacturing”  Please respond to the following:

Examine the use of synthetic chemicals and toxic metals in manufacturing. Create a three (3) step action plan business organizations can take to help reduce the harmful effects of these substances on population health.

NOTE: MORE THAN ONE ANSWER POSTED CHOOSE ANY

Research 2 to 3 electronic health care resources. These could be websites, mobile applications, or multimedia resources used by health care consumers for their medical needs.

Based on your research, respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

• Describe the websites, applications, or multimedia resources.
• Describe how health care providers use these resources to enhance their products and services.
• Explain the implications of using these resources in the health care industry. What are the implications for the consumer?

Assignment Content

1. Competency
   Compare and contrast the major characteristics of the U. S. healthcare delivery system with the systems of other developed countries.

   Student Success Criteria
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   Scenario
   You are the new Director of the International Relations Division of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and have been tasked with researching and creating a draft healthcare delivery model for the U.S. As you work with your team, you discover that other developed nations have very interesting components that make up their healthcare systems. Before you complete a proposed U.S. healthcare delivery model that can be viewed as sustainable and crafted strictly for the U.S. given the healthcare climate and rules and government, you thought you should first compose an ideal healthcare delivery system composed of the best components from the world’s developed nations, including the United States.
   The United States Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Global Affairs is the diplomatic voice of the Department of Health and Human Services that fosters critical global relationships, coordinate international engagement across HHS and the U.S. government, and provide leadership and expertise in global health diplomacy and policy to contribute to a safer, healthier world (https://www.hhs.gov/about/agencies/oga/index.html)

   Instructions
   Create a proposed healthcare delivery model based on a combination of developed nations’ health systems (including the U.S.) using the best parts of each: Outcomes, costs, and processes. The proposed model should include a full report that has the following elements:

   • A detailed definition of healthcare in the U.S. under this proposed model.
   • A SWOT analysis per country (minimum of 5 countries) from around the world. One country from each quadrant of the world is required (north, south, east, and west) and one country must be the U.S.
   • Each country should have a minimum of two strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats regarding their national healthcare systems’ outcomes, costs, and processes.
   • For example, Country 1: two strengths on the outcomes, two weaknesses on the outcomes, two opportunities on the outcomes, two threats on the outcomes. Two strengths on the costs, two weaknesses on the costs, two opportunities on the costs, two threats on the costs. Two strengths on the processes, two weaknesses on the processes, two opportunities on the processes, two threats on the processes.
   • A comparison chart of the costs of healthcare in the U.S. with the costs of healthcare in other developed nations.
   • A comparison chart of the U.S. health outcomes to the health outcomes of the other developed nations.
   • Recommend strategies you believe would be best to use in a healthcare delivery model for the U.S. only using the best parts of models from other developed nations.
   • The report should include two pages for each country, as well as a cover page and reference page.

     Resources

   • For writing assistance, please visit the Rasmussen College Writing Guide.
   • APA formatting for the reference list, and proper grammar, punctuation, and form are required. APA help is available here.
   • Click this link for help on creating a SWOT analysis.
   • Various healthcare delivery models:
   • https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/countries/models.html

Assignment: 

As a healthcare professional, you will be tasked with making critical decisions that will test your ethical understanding and abilities.

You are to take a short quiz that will provide you with actual cases:

Open Learn. (2017). Difficult healthcare decisions: What will you choose? Retrieved from http://www.open.edu/openlearn/medical-ethics-quiz

For each question you can select one of two responses. Once you submit your answer to the question you will be provided with a brief summary and a percentage of individuals who agreed with your response. You are to take notes for each question as you go along in the quiz, as you only are able to take the quiz once. In a 2-page paper, complete the following:

1. For each question provide a brief description of the      case, your response, and the percentage of individuals who agreed with      you.
2. Explain the rationale for your response and identify      the ethical principle, theories, and/or issues the case presented. Support      your rationale with scholarly reference(s).

Instructions:

1. Conduct additional research to gather sufficient      information to support your analysis.
2. Limit your response to a maximum of 2 pages.
3. Support your proposal with peer-reviewed articles,      and use at least 3 references. For additional information on how to      recognize peer-reviewed journals, see http://www.angelo.edu/services/library/handouts/peerrev.php.

Before engaging in the discussion, please read the following segments from Close to Slavery: Guestworker Programs in the United States:

• Bauer, M., & Steward, M. (18 Feb. 2013). A Brief History of Guestworkers in America (Links to an external site.). 
• Bauer, M., & Steward, M. (18 Feb. 2013). Recommendations (Links to an external site.). (2013).

In this discussion, we will examine the plight of “guest workers” in the U.S. Please answer the following:

• Choose an additional segment from Bauer and Steward’s report on guest workers (dealing with the plight of guest workers), read it, and summarize the issue in your discussion post. Include the link for this particular segment from the SPLC report in your references (APA format).
• What part does the growth of the global economy play in the employment of “guest workers”?
• What are the fundamental issues that impact fair treatment for this population? Be sure to relate this to the particular segment you have read and are sharing with your peers.
• From your reading of the recommendations in the SPLC report, what are some of the ways these issues might be addressed?