Describe the need for a program planning model. Identify two similarities and/or differences between the logic model and the program planning model you chose.

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IHP 670 Discussion 2-1

Your course project is all about planning, designing, and evaluating a program. Thus, choosing an appropriate program planning model is key to your course project. Knowing each program planning model’s characteristics, advantages, and limitations will help you choose an appropriate model and use it effectively in your project work.

Explore the module resources to learn about four different program planning models and the logic model. Then, choose one of the following program planning models to discuss:

PRECEDE-PROCEED model
Strategic planning
Business plan
Intervention mapping

In your initial post, compare and contrast the strengths and weaknesses of your chosen program planning model against the strengths and the weaknesses you see in the logic model. Include the following in your response:

Describe the need for a program planning model.
Identify two similarities and/or differences between the logic model and the program planning model you chose.

What are the primary and secondary populations impacted by the identified problem or issue? Which two key characteristics of your target population should you consider while designing the program?

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Project Management Plans for Improvement

Overview
You work at a health or healthcare organization where you identified a health or healthcare issue you believe needs to be addressed. To address this issue, you have been asked to design an effective health program. As a first step, you will conduct a needs justification to gather information on the population you intend to target, as well as an analysis of best evidence-based practices implemented by other organizations with similar programs. This work will help you identify a health or healthcare issue to be addressed through a program that you will plan with the help of your team.

You are required to work on and share your needs justification with senior management at your organization so they can decide whether to approve the plan and implement it. Then, you will use facts, statistics, and published information to identify the scope of the need and validate its relevance to the present scenario. This assignment will help you identify and validate the program idea you will use for the course project. Remember, before you begin working on future project preparation assignments and the course project, integrate the feedback you will get from your instructor.

Prompt
Write a needs justification analysis that focuses on the health or healthcare issue and the target population for your eventual program plan.

Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

Health or Healthcare Issue: Describe the health or healthcare issue that needs to be addressed.

Location and Target Population: Describe the specific location and target population impacted by the selected health or healthcare issue. Your selected location must be somewhere within the United States or its territories and cannot be larger than a city or county. Be sure to include appropriate demographic information, such as age, income, education, ethnicity, and so on. Consider the following questions to guide your response:
What are the primary and secondary populations impacted by the identified problem or issue?
Which two key characteristics of your target population should you consider while designing the program? Explain your reasoning.

Program Goal: Describe the overarching goal of your program. Consider the following questions to guide your response:
What are the two measurable outcomes that would help evaluate your progress toward the goal?
What challenges do you foresee in attaining the goal or outcomes?

Health or Healthcare Disparities: Describe how you will address health or healthcare disparities among the target population related to your chosen health or healthcare issue. Consider the following questions to guide your response:
What are two health disparities that you believe exist in your community, city, or state?
What are the potential causes of these disparities?
What is the significance of considering and incorporating health or healthcare disparities in program planning?

Healthcare or Community Service Organization: Describe why the healthcare or community service organization is, or should become, involved in addressing your chosen health or healthcare issue. Consider the following question to guide your response:
What role can the identified healthcare or community service organization play in addressing the problem?

Note that all the claims in your needs justification should be evidence based. Your citations should be from your independent search for evidence (not from the scenario, textbook, or module resources) of credible sources and be current within the last five years. You are required to cite a minimum of two sources overall. Refer to the Shapiro Library Guide: Nursing—Graduate located in the Start Here section of the course for additional support. If you need writing support, access the Online Writing Center through the Academic Support module of your course.

Describe the importance of program planning in healthcare. Identify two of the most important program planning elements, and explain why you think they are important.

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IHP 670 Discussion 1-1

Program planning is a multistep process having several elements within each step. This process is used to decide what actions to take when addressing a health or healthcare need; it defines who should take the actions, as well as when and where to do so.

In your initial post, introduce yourself to your classmates and share why you chose to pursue a degree in healthcare. Next, read the module resources to understand the fundamentals of program planning. Include the following in your initial post:

Describe the importance of program planning in healthcare.
Identify two of the most important program planning elements, and explain why you think they are important.

Describe their role in responding to the public health emergency. Explain three challenges public health professionals faced dealing with the emergency in the community.

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Public health emergency

Choose a public health emergency with a prominent disease aspect. Some examples include the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 (cancer, respiratory disease, etc.), the 2003 SARS-CoV-1 pandemic, Hurricane Katrina (food- and waterborne illness, mold, etc.), the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak, the 2020 SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, or another public health emergency where you can assess the response.

Write an after-action report that summarizes the event, the response, what went well, and what needs to be addressed for future public health emergency responses.

Provide an overview of your chosen public health emergency. Include:
A general description of what happened.
The geographic location. If the geographic location was worldwide or impacted a broad area, choose a community to discuss. This includes your local community if it was impacted.
The populations within the community that were impacted and how they were affected.
Discuss how public health professionals responded to the public health emergency.
List at least three public health organizations (government agencies, community organizations, nonprofits, etc.) that responded. Make sure the main function of the organization is public health activities and they were responsible for responding to the community that was impacted.
Describe their role in responding to the public health emergency.
Explain three challenges public health professionals faced dealing with the emergency in the community.
Describe at least two ways in which the response went well and two ways in which the response plans should be improved for the future.

Create a 700- to 1,050-word brochure that describes the various sources of retirement income for older people, including government and personal sources of income.

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Financial Support for the Older Population Brochure

According to Novak (2018), federal funding for older adults has more than doubled since the 1960s. Increases in the number of older people and the number and types of services or programs for older people account for these costs. These programs and services form a social safety net that ensures a minimum standard of health care and income for older people.

Create a 700- to 1,050-word brochure that describes the various sources of retirement income for older people, including government and personal sources of income.

Your brochure should include:

– Various sources of income for the older population in the United States
– Expenditures related to aging that are paid under these sources of income
– Economic effect on family members caring for older adults
– Economic effect of an aging population on society
– Government reform actions to create more cost-effective programs for aging adults

Include at least 3 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar sources to support your findings.

Which resources for aging populations is more lacking—federal, state, or local? Explain your answer. Which of the three is the most important to the aging population? Explain your rationale.

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Week 5 Discussion

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

Which resources for aging populations is more lacking—federal, state, or local? Explain your answer.
Which of the three is the most important to the aging population? Explain your rationale.

What health care providers are the major players in the U.S. health care system? What are the positive and negative effects of the often-conflicting self-interests and lack of regulation on these players?

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Effects of the often-conflicting self-interests and lack of regulation

Read the following article and answer the below question:
https://www.gcumedia.com/digital-resources/jones-and-bartlett/2017/delivering-health-care-in-america_a-systems-approach-custom_7e.php
USER: xxx
PASS: xxx

What health care providers are the major players in the U.S. health care system? What are the positive and negative effects of the often-conflicting self-interests and lack of regulation on these players?

Write the manuscript for the research article based on the provided materials. Relate your findings to the results of previous studies.

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The Validity of 16 AHRQ’s Patient Safety Indicators to Identify In-hospital Complications Outside of the US

Write the manuscript for the research article based on the provided materials. The article should include the following sections: abstract, introduction, methods, results, discussion, and references based on the requirements of the following target journal: International Journal of Quality in Healthcare (https://academic.oup.com/intqhc).
In addition, relate our findings to the results of previous studies, including but not necessarily limited to the ones that I have sent you (particularly in the introduction and the discussion of the paper).
The formatting of the manuscript, the title page, the tables, the table legends, and the references should be according to the requirements of the target journal (see above).
If possible, provide the references that you include in the reference list of the article in a citation management software (such as Endnote or Zotero or Mendeley).
Finally, note that the number of sources that I indicated in the online form is just a broad suggestion. Feel free to include as many sources as you deem suitable.

Identify how the selected tools are of value and a challenge in the health care industry, inclusive of public health where applicable.

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Health Communication

Section #1: Part A & B:

Key: Plagiarism will result in 0 points earned/awarded for the assignment. As current/future health care industry professionals, learning to communicate information at a heightened level through understanding and application is vital to your success.

Question/Component #1: Chapter 3 (Health Literacy) of your course text outlined an array of assessment tools designed to enhance health literacy.
Select 2 of the 6 introduced and research the assessment tool. Do not merely repeat or copy the content from the course text. The focus is to provide a more in-depth overview of the 2 selected tools of choice and apply the importance to improving health literacy in the health care industry, inclusive of public health where applicable. Make certain you professionally introduce the assessment tool individually (Name), identify the purpose driven approach aligned with the value of the assessment tool, discuss the key elements, and target audience applicable to the selected tools.

Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine (REALM)
Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults (TOFHLA)
Newest Vital Sign (NVS)
eHealth Literacy Scale (eHEALS)
Numeracy Understanding in Medicine (NUMi)
Health Literacy Skills Instrument (HLSI)

Question/Component #2: Identify how the selected tools (individually) are of value and a challenge in the health care industry, inclusive of public health where applicable. The response must explain how the 2 selected assessment tools measure an individual’s health literacy.

Question/Component #3: As a professional, include an example, setting, and target population/audience/individual in which each selected assessment tool would be beneficial to improving understanding and decision making.

Section #1: Part C

Pose 3 (or more) question(s) relating to a topic, concept, strategy, etc. in your professional review. All question submissions should be thought-provoking to encourage discussion.
Section #2: Reply Process

Students must reply to at least 3 posts after submitting their initial discussion post. Professional comments, connection to perspective shared, and critical thinking about the content are required. Use of outside sources beyond the textbook and supplemental materials provided by the professor are encouraged. All resources applied must be referenced in APA format. Plagiarism will not be tolerated and will result in action taken.

Describe how health care is financed by examining both the market-based and government-based approaches.

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Health Care Finance Models

There are two broad approaches to financing health care: a market-based approach and a government-financed approach. Answer the 12 questions, providing 3-4 sentences minimum for each approach.

 

Include any references used at the end of the chart.

 

  Market-based

(HMO, POS, PPO, etc.)

 Government-financed

(Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare, etc.)
Who is provided access?    
How much coverage is provided?    
How are the services paid for?    
How does reimbursement apply?    
Are there limitations of care?    
What guides care decision for patients?    
What is the quality of services (use HEDIS website for answer)?    
Are there competitive options?    
How much are prevention and wellness emphasized and measured?    
How are health care costs managed and controlled?    
How are medical advances generated?    
How is health care reform established?