What do you think is the best way to reduce the spread of AIDS?

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Please, read all order descriptions carefully.
It’s Human sexuality & sex class’s assignment.This paper is discussion of my opinionsAfter reading and watching Links, Please answer of below all questionsIf you have questions about them , let me know

Topic 2: AIDS
What do you think is the best way to reduce the spread of AIDS? Do you think harm reduction strategies such as needle exchanges should be legal? What laws and/or policies should be created or eliminated?

Resources: You have to cite 2 resources from I provided

Video: Pisani, E. (2010). Sex Drugs and HIV—let’s get rational. TED talk (19 mins) Retrieved from (CC)

Video: El-Feki, S. (2012) HIV—how to fight an epidemic of bed laws TED talk. (16 minutes) Retrieved from (CC)

Web site: The Center for HIV Law and Policy @

Web site: Global Commission on HIV and the Law @

Explain how an organization could ensure team leads are exhibiting the traits of an effective team leader.

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The Module 1 assessment requires you to consider how effective teams are built as well as how they effectively communicate. Some considerations in this assessment include the traits of an effective team leader as well as the strategies one would use to recruit team members that would communicate and work effectively together.

Using material from Chapters 12 and 13 of your text as well as the article in the supplemental reading (Rao, 2016), you will write an informative essay sharing best practices for effective team-building and team communication.

Assessment Checklist:

Describe at least three specific ways an organization could build more effective teams.
Identify at least two traits demonstrated by effective team leaders.
Explain how an organization could ensure team leads are exhibiting the traits of an effective team leader.
Consider the different modes of communication available to a team and describe the two you feel would be the most appropriate mode to most effectively communicate in a team environment.
Justify your choice of modes by explaining how it is most appropriate in a team setting.
Utilize at least two external sources as part of your research.



Confirm the correlation between depression and length of stay in nursing homes in an effort to provide community options.

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Your community wants to open an adult daycare center. You have located the Farrel Foundation, which would like to fund start-up grants for daycare programs. This foundation’s research demonstrates a correlation between depression and length of time in a skilled nursing facility. A group of community residents feel that an adult daycare would allow the aging population to stay with their families while using the supplemental daycare services. You are asked to confirm the correlation between depression and length of stay in nursing homes in an effort to provide community options. Nursing home residents were asked to complete the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS), which is a 15-item scale (a 15 represents a high level of depression).

Using the data in the Unit 4 Dataset, given in the resources, test whether length of stay in a nursing home and depression are related at a .05 level of significance.

Also refer to the tutorial provided in this unit’s first study as a reference on how to conduct correlation tests.

1 page paper

Evaluate the principles of change management, staffing, and leadership within the planning of human resources in a healthcare facility.

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Explaining and Responding to the Affordable Care Act

It is important to understand the important requirements of the Affordable Care Act and how this important act will impact healthcare in this country. Imagine yourself as a hospital administrator preparing a dynamic plan of action of how you will explain to all stakeholder groups both inside and outside the hospital (employees and patients) about the requirements of the Affordable Care Act and how your hospital will mobilize everyone to achieve the best possible results to be in compliance with the act and try to achieve the best results possible for the community, patients, and employees in the process. You will address all invited stakeholders from inside the hospital and citizens and groups in the community in a large meeting at the hospital where you will present your plan in a PowerPoint Presentation at the meeting. Your plan will be to WOW! them with your great plan and convince them to make your hospital their first hospital of choice.

Part 1: In the first part of your plan you need to study change management theories, techniques and leadership styles needed to successfully undertake a change initiative. Describe some ideas you would like to use to help make the communication and deployment of the plan a success. You will evaluate the staffing levels, productivity, and human resources needs and provide feedback to staff regarding how any new requirements will affect their work in the hospital. You will need to explain the kind of initial and ongoing training programs you will provide them to help with the transition.

Part 2: In this part of your plan you will explain how you will market to all stakeholders your dynamic plan of action. Explain how your hospital will be especially able to meet the needs of the community better than all competitors to understand their rights and benefits regarding the Affordable Care Act. You will describe how that response will provide them with new and exciting benefits for their health and the public health of the community in general.

Instructions

For this assignment, you will be creating a PowerPoint presentation explaining your hospital’s dynamic plan of action in response to the requirements of the Affordable Care Act. Consider your audience (who are you targeting, who will be in the audience) while you create this plan and presentation. Think about what would catch your eye as a customer when putting this together. You can create this presentation in PowerPoint form. Your grade will be based upon how effective your PowerPoint presentation is at addressing the requirements of the Affordable Care Act, how the Hospital and all internal stakeholders will respond, and how that response helps the employees, patients and the community. Consider how you will catch their attention, the quality of the information you provide them, and the overall look of the PowerPoint presentation.

Requirements

The PowerPoint presentation should have at least 10 slides and include at least 3 references with a references section slide at the end of the presentation. The presentation should use the notes section of the PowerPoint to provide extra details on the slides and elaborate more on your points. The presentation should include visual images or charts and graphs to help communicate your information.

Identify a legislative issue in PA practice and discuss history and status.

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Identify a legislative issue in PA practice and discuss history and status.
For this assignment, the student must:
Identify a legislative/legal issue in PA practice. This can be a current issue the PA profession is facing or a past issue.
Describe the issue and any pertinent background information
If it is the current issue, describe the status (e.g. will it be voted on, does it need to come before legislation)
If it is a past issue, describe the steps that occurred to pass the legislation (e.g. what steps did AAPA or a state PA society take to pass the legislation)
The paper needs to be in APA format with appropriate references cited in-text and include a reference list
The paper should be 4 to 6 pages in length, double spaced
You may choose a state-specific legislative issue or a national legislative issue.
Examples of topics:
Removing countersignature requirement
The Physician Assistant Higher Education Modernization Act of 2017
The Physician Assistant Education Public Health Initiatives Act of 2017
Authorizing prescriptive privilege for Pas
Medicare and CHIP Reauthorization Act

Paper must be 5 pages NOT including Citations page.

Develop a public health program that can improve hypertension in rural America.

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Develop a public health program that can improve hypertension in rural America. Will include an overview of the problem using national, state, local, or county data to describe why it is a health issue.

Requirements:
-Defines critical health care issue from reliable sources; includes history/background of issue.
-Discusses the impact of the issue on health care systems
-Provides demographic information r/t aggregate
-Analysis of issue using the epidemiological triangle
-Provide a holistic assessment of the selected population aggregate as related to the health care condition.
-Provides an overview/synthesis of research (categories, such as research related to incidence/prevalence, screenings, interventions, etc.; identifies any “landmark” or particularly significant research; provides a summary of at least three significant research studies
-Identifies outcome goals and valuation criteria as identified in Healthy People 2030 or UNSDG
-Establishment of surveillance parameters (including screening considerations) by determining the best way to monitor and identify the target population?
-Identifies strengths, and barriers to improved outcomes using a selected change model or theory
-Describes and evaluates intervention strategies evident in the literature; identifies “target” of intervention; includes plan for implementation and evaluation of intervention strategy
-Writing follows APA Usage and Writing Guide

Discuss options to improve the financial and operational performance of nonprofit organizations and the criticisms leveled at for-profit healthcare organizations.

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Use Google search, and/or one of the websites below to find a research article(s) related to nonprofit versus for-profit healthcare and organizations.

Analyze the characteristics of each type of organization and the factors that impact operations.

Discuss options to improve the financial and operational performance of nonprofit organizations and the criticisms leveled at for-profit healthcare organizations.

The resultant written paper should be 750 words, double-spaced, and in APA format.

The primary text and the journal and website research article must be used as references to support the analysis and summary paper.

Use at least three references.

Websites to use for references:










Identify the implications of one or more pieces of research for both health and social care professionals and the broader public debate on a topic of your choice.

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The 1,500 word research report should identify the implications of one or more pieces of research for both health and social care professionals and the broader public debate on a topic of your choice. Students will need to demonstrate awareness of methodology and be able to critically analyse public policy and professional debate in the light of research evidence; The report should be presented in a report format and should include a title page; contents page; subheadings etc.

SH7058 Guidance for the template for Evidence based report (1,500 words)

Title page

State agreed question or title of topic

Introduction

Identify clearly which research literature you are analysing in relation to public policy and professional debates.

State rationale for the selection of your research report(s) – relate the research to your topic or question and identify key policy or practice issues

Establish a clear position in relation to topic title or question i.e. this may relate to policy, theory or practice

Identify the report structure i.e. which theory, methodological or partnership issues to be discussed

Main body of report

Headings that relate to your structure – Review research literature within the structure and to what extent it may inform policy and/or practice

Ensure there is a methodological section relating to your research study selected

Ensure consistent discussion include implications

Identify limitations of both the research and/or your report

Conclusion

Summarise the key argument(s) and key implications of this research and for further research

References

Include research texts as well as relevant supporting evidence related to the topic and those drawn from the module, Harvard style referencing.

Demonstrate understanding of research design, including advantages and limitations, and identify possible bias and confounders

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Critically review one relevant analytical study, as an example of an epidemiological challenge – Demonstrate understanding of research design, including advantages and limitations, and identify possible bias and confounders

What does it cost to prevent one hip fracture over 3 years, using the COPE calculation posted in the chapter?

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York College

The City University of New York Department of Health Professions

HPHS 201

Class Exercise

  1. Consider the following formulas:
    1. Number Needed to Treat (NNT) is the number of patients who have to receive the intervention to prevent one adverse outcome.
      1. NNT = 1/ARR
      2. (or 100/ARR, if ARR is expressed as a percentage instead of a fraction)
    2. Absolute Risk Reduction (ARR) is the difference between the EER and the CER.
      1. ARR = EER-CER
      2. (Note that “difference” is not the same as subtracting CER from EER. For example if the EER is 1.5 and the CER is 2.0, the difference is .5, not -.5)
    3. Cost of Preventing an Event (COPE).
      1. COPE = NNT x number of years treated x 365 days x the daily cost of the treatment

Problem #1:

A Merck representative visits your office and tells you that Fosamax® (alendronate) will decrease the incidence of repeat hip fracture by 50% over 3 years. That excites you because you have 20 elderly women and 5 elderly men who already have fractured one hip in your practice. You locate the study by Black in Lancet (1996) and find out that fracture occurs in 2.2% of placebo patients and 1.1% of patients on alendronate (Fosamax®).

  1. Calculate the NNT. Do not worry about a negative or minus sign result. Example: 1.1-2.2 = 1.1 and not -1.1 when calculating the NNT.
  2. Go to Epocrates Online and determine the cost of Fosamax®, based on one 70mg pill taken orally each week. (Keep in mind that generic Fosamax®, alendronate is now available, so calculate the COPE for both). Also, be aware that Fosamax is available in multiple doses for different routes. Show your actual calculation/math so we can tell what you did right versus wrong.
  3. What does it cost to prevent one hip fracture over 3 years, using the COPE calculation posted in the chapter?
  4. Is this more meaningful than just talking about a 50% reduction in hip fractures?
  5. FRAX www.shef.ac.uk/frax/ calculates the 10 year risk of a fracture in men and women based on bone mineral density (BMD). Try plugging in some information and see what the risk is. Example: woman, aged 65, weighs 110, height 5’4″, previous fracture, a smoker and drinker. The machine used was Hologic and her bone mineral density result was .5 gm/cm2. Now calculate the 10 year risk.
    1. What did you get?
    2. Take a snapshot of the result and include it in the lab report.
    3. Can you see how a large organization might use EBM, a calculator and drug costs to decide on the best therapy?
    4. Could this be automatically calculated with an EHR?
  6. Download the attached lab registry excel file. This registry was created from asthmatic patients at a local hospital with the patient identifiers removed, except for age. The scenario is: you are the asthma clinical champion at this same hospital.
  7. How would you take advantage of this data?
  8. First, take a look at an asthma clinical practice guideline (CPG) attached to the lab. Note that it is concise and easy to read.
  9. Understand that if an asthmatic was in the emergency room that implies they are no longer under control. Look at the CPG and it tells you inhaled corticosteroids (ICSs) are the mainstay of asthma management.
  10. Next, look at the Asthma Medicine Chart https://pq.lung.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Poster-Asthma-medications-chart.pdf for a list of common inhaled corticosteroids. Here are a few ideas, and I want to hear about any others you have:
  11. Sort asthmatics by age. How many are younger than 18?
  12. What percentage of all asthmatics are younger than 18?
  13. What percentage of all asthmatics have visited the emergency room (ER)? These might be your most severe OR least compliant.
  14. What percentage of all asthmatics are seen more frequently in the clinic (frequent flyers) than in ER, according to the spreadsheet?
  15. Are patients visiting clinic more frequently are on more medications than patients visiting ER (which might mean they are more severe or more compliant)?
  16. What percentage of patients that visited the emergency room (ER) were on inhaled corticosteroids (ICS)?
  17. Go to https://www.nlm.nih.gov/oet/ed/pubmed/pubmed_in_ebp/index.html
    1. This page contains PubMed Online Training
    2. Plug in scenario practice exercise into PICO https://pubmedhh.nlm.nih.gov/nlmd/pico/piconew.php following the steps to filter the final result
    3. Take a snapshot of the final filtered PubMed search results.
    4. Take a snapshot of the clinical queries search results and submit it as part of your lab report for the day.

Total questions to be answered: 17, 14 are written answers, 3 are images

Mark question #s/letters you are answering clearly for full credit.