Thursday, June 5, 2014

Health Systems

Prepare a 2 to 4 page research paper, following the APA guidelines, on one of the following topics:
1. Role of Government in Health Policy: State and Federal governments have a large role in establishing health policy. Discuss the roles of your state’s government and the federal government in establishing health policy, including: the areas of healthcare affected by the policies, what mechanisms are used to enforce the policies, and the process of changing policies once they have been established.
2. Quality of Care: Quality of Care has become an important part of healthcare in recent years. Discuss quality of care to include assessment methods, role of clinical guidelines and strategies when attempting to implement clinical guidelines. Further, describe why quality improvements initiatives have become common place in healthcare.
3. Ethical Issue: Ethics plays such an important role in healthcare that entire classes are offered on the subject and hospitals have entire committees dedicated to ensuring the ethical provision of services. Briefly discuss healthcare ethics including the cardinal principles, differences between public health and medical ethics, issues related to financing and delivery of health services, and mechanisms for resolving ethical issues in health care.

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