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Explain how productivity, economic growth, and future standards of living are influenced by investment in factories, machinery, new technology, and the health, education, and training of people.

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Multiple Choice Question Test

SSEF1 Explain why limited productive resources and unlimited wants result in scarcity, opportunity cost, and tradeoffs for individuals, business, and governments

Define Scarcity

What are the four productive resources?

Provide an example of each productive resources.

What are the four motivations that influence entrepreneurs to take a risk in a market economy?

Define Opportunity Cost

Provide an example of an opportunity cost.

SSEF2 Give examples of how rational decision making entails comparing the marginal benefits and the marginal costs of an action
Define marginal cost and marginal benefit.

Explain what makes a decision rational

Give an example of a rational decision that you have made this semester.

What is a positive incentive? What is a negative incentive? Explain how people react to each

 

SSEF3 Explain how specialization and voluntary exchange influence buyers and sellers

Explain what it means to specialize in labor.

What are two advantages and two disadvantages to specializing in labor?

Explain how both parties gain as a result of non-fraudulent exchange

 

SSEF4 Compare and contrast different economic systems and explain how they answer the three basic economic questions.

What are the three basic questions that all economies must answer?

What are the four economic systems?

What does each economic system say about private ownership? Profit motive? Consumer sovereignty?

What are the 8 goals of all economic systems?

Explain how each economic system meets or does not meet all 8 goals

What are the 8 strategies for allocating scarce resources?

Explain all 8 Strategies for allocating scarce resources

 

SSEF5 Describe the roles of government in the United States economy
Explain why the U.S. government protects property rights and redistributes income.

Explain how both regulation and deregulation effects both consumers and producers.

 

SSEF6 Explain how productivity, economic growth, and future standards of living are influenced by investment in factories, machinery, new technology, and the health, education, and training of people
Define productivity.

How does investing in technology lead to economic growth?

Explain how investing in human capital can lead to a higher standard of living.

Draw a Production Possibilities Curve.
Draw a Production Possibilities Curve
Show the following:
-Inefficiency
-Efficiency
-Growth
-Opportunity costs
-Trade-offs

 

SSEMI1 The student will describe how households, businesses, and government are interdependent, and interact through the flows of goods, services, and money

Draw a circular flow diagram that includes the product market, resource (factor) market, households, and firms. Explain how goods and services circulate between the four parts.

Explain the difference between a product market and a factor market.

 

SSEMI2 Explain how the law of demand, the law of supply, and prices work to determine production and distribution in a market economy.
Define the law of supply. Define the law of demand

What is the difference between supply and quantity supplied? What is the difference between demand and quantity demanded?

What do we call the market clearing price? How do buyers and sellers determine the market clearing price? Draw a graph showing the market clearing price.

What are the five determinants (shifters) of demand?

What are the five determinants (shifters) of supply?

Draw a graph with a supply curve. Show and increase and decrease of supply. Draw a graph with a demand curve. Show an increase and decrease of demand.

What is a price ceiling? Why would the government use it? What will a price ceiling always create? Draw a graph illustrating a price ceiling.

What is a price floor? Why would the government use it? What will a price floor always create? Draw a graph illustrating a price floor.

 

SSEMI3 Explain the organization and role of business and analyze the four types of market structures in the U.S. economy
What are the three forms of business organization?

For each business organization, identify the number of owners, the liability, the lifespan, the taxation, and the decision making.

List the four market structures in order from most competitive to least competitive.

For each of the four market structures identify, the number of sellers, the barriers to entry, price control, and product differentiation.

 

SSEMA1 Illustrate the means by which economic activity is measured
What are the three goals of the macro economy?

Define GDP. What are the four components of GDP? Write the GDP formula. What is the largest component of GDP? What is the only component of GDP that can be a negative number?

What kind of person is considered to be unemployed?
What is the formula to calculate the unemployment rate?
What is inflation?

What is the CPI?

What is aggregate supply and aggregate demand?

How is the unemployment CPI, inflation, and real GDP used to evaluate the macroeconomic goals? Explain each one separately.

What is the difference between real GDP and nominal GDP? Which one is more important and why?

Who benefits from unanticipated inflation?

Who loses from unanticipated inflation?

What is seasonal unemployment? Give an example.

What is structural unemployment? Give an example.

What is cyclical unemployment? Give an example.

What is frictional unemployment? Give an example.

Explain what is happening with GDP at each stage of the business cycle.

 

SSEMA2 Explain the role and function of the Federal Reserve System

Explain the role and function of money

What are the three parts of the Federal Reserve System and who is in each part?

Define monetary policy, who controls it?

What are the four tools of monetary policy?

Explain how the Federal Reserve uses the four tools of monetary policy to grow the economy.

Explain how the Federal Reserve uses the four tools of monetary policy to contract the economy

 

SSEMA3 Explain how the government uses fiscal policy to promote price stability, full employment, and economic growth
Define fiscal policy. Who controls it?

How does the Federal Government use fiscal policy to grow the economy?

How does the Federal Government use fiscal policy to contract the economy?

What is the difference between deficit and debt? How do budget deficits or surpluses impact the national debt?

 

SSEIN1 Explain why individuals, businesses, and governments trade goods and services

What does it mean if a nation has absolute advantage over another nation?

What does it mean if a nation has comparative advantage over another nation?

Why does most trade take place?

What does it mean to have a favorable balance of trade or a trade surplus? What does it mean to have a trade deficit?

Who has the absolute advantage in the production of shirts and hats?

Who has the comparative advantage in the production of shirts?

Who has the comparative advantage in the production of hats?

 

SSEIN2 Explain why countries sometimes erect trade barriers and sometimes advocate for free trade

What is a tariff? What are two reasons the Federal government would impose a tariff on a foreign producer?

What is quota? Why would the Federal Government use it?

What is an embargo? Why would the Federal Government use it?

What are subsides? How would the Federal Government use it as a trade barrier?

What are standards? How would the Federal Government use them as a trade barrier?

Identify two costs and two benefits of trade barriers for producers

Identify two costs and two benefits of trade barriers for consumer

What is the purpose of a trading bloc? Identify three trading blocs.

 

SSEIN3 Explain how changes in exchange rates can have an impact on the purchasing power of groups in the United States and in other countries

Define exchange rates

$1 USD = 15.6 Mexican Pesos
2017
$1 USD = 19.1 Mexican Pesos

Which currency appreciated? Which currency depreciated?

 

SSEPF1 Apply rational decision making to personal spending and saving choices

Provide 1 cost and 1 benefit for a person choosing to do each of the following after high school
1. Go to college
2. Enlist in the military
3. Enter the workforce
4. Go to technical school

List 10 expenses that would go into a typical American family budget. Explain one large expense that a family might also budget for to attain in the future.

 

SSEPF2 Explain that banks and other financial institutions are business that channel funds from savers to investors

Explain the need and situation for a consumer to use the services of each of the following financial institutions. Also, explain how competitive the interest would be at each institution
1. Banks
2. Credit Unions
3. Pay Day Lender
4. Title pawn Lenders

Why is there a difference between interest charged and interest earned?

Explain an investment option that would carry little risk.

Explain an investment option that would carry a higher risk.

 

SSEPF3 Explain how changes in taxation can have an impact on an individual’s spending and saving choices

What is a progressive tax? What is an example?

What is a regressive tax? What is an example?

What is a proportional tax? What is an example?

 

SSEPF4 Evaluate the costs and benefits of using credit

List 4 factors that would affect a person’s credit worthiness.

What is APR

What is the difference between simple interest and compound interest?

 

SSEPF5 Describe how insurance and other risk-management strategies protect against financial loss

What is the purpose of buying insurance?

What is a premium? What is a deductible?

List and describe two types of insurance that a consumer would buy.

 

SSEPF6 Describe how earnings of workers are determined in the market place

Identify five skills that are required in order to be successful in the workplace.

Explain how investment in education and skill training relates to future earnings.

Explain the rationale for choosing the model you have selected over the other models in Chapters 1 and 3 or other parts of the course text.

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Change Model Assignment on Tesla

Contextualize the organizational change you have selected within one of the change models described in the course text. This means consider the time and place of the organization, as well as economic, technological, geopolitical, sociocultural, environmental and other macro forces influencing the change.
Explain the rationale for choosing the model you have selected over the other models in Chapters 1 and 3 or other parts of the course text (one or two sentences per model only), and
Make sure you consider the effects of the change on the company’s shareholders, employees, and customers, as well as on society and the environment.

Acquire and discuss a broad overview of both the historical development of counselling theory and its contemporary issues and debates.

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Portfolio

This portfolio is comprised of 3 entries
1. A written 350-word enquiry informed by self-directed independent reading: Prepare a well-considered definition of counselling which examines some of the matters that distinguish ethical counselling interactions from other ways of helping.
Reading: First steps in counselling (Sanders) chapter 2 p.13

2. A written 650-word enquiry informed by self-directed independent reading: Provide a well-considered resume of what you understand to be the important social and historical origins of counselling theory, and of its contemporary issues and debates.
Reading: First steps in counselling (Sanders) chapter 4a, p.51

3. A written 1000-word enquiry informed by self-directed independent reading: Reflect on and critically evaluate the skills, qualities and ethical stance which counsellors bring to interactions and relationships.
Reading: First steps in counselling (Sanders) chapter 8, p.183
BACP ethical framework

Assignment guidance: This submission should demonstrate your ability to:

• Acquire and discuss a broad overview of both the historical development of counselling theory and its contemporary issues and debates.

• Understand the importance of the therapeutic relationship, and of the need to clarify the roles, boundaries and contracting issues which support and enhance ethical counselling interactions.

• Reflect on and critically evaluate the skills, qualities and ethical stance which trainee counsellors bring to interactions and relationships.

Create a 5-minute presentation for a committee kickoff meeting in which you describe your leadership role, team composition, and how to foster collaboration.

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E-mail From Lynette

Overview:
In this assessment, you will create a 5-minute presentation for a committee kickoff meeting in which you describe your leadership role, team composition, and how to foster collaboration.

Scenario
Imagine that Lynette follows up with you in an e-mail shortly after reading your views on leadership and collaboration.

Briefly outline the project goals and highlight 2–3 of the initial priorities to be addressed by the group.
Explain the composition of your ideal team and why you chose them. (Note that you will not know the exact personnel yet, but assume we will recruit the people with the desired qualities and characteristics that you outline in the presentation.) Provide brief description of the type of professionals you believe can help define the problem and ultimately make recommendations on how to address it. You will want the group to be diverse and with each member being able to provide a unique perspective.
Explain your role and describe how the committee will work together and achieve effective interprofessional collaboration.
Describe how the group will communicate. Include how and when they will meet.
Describe how ideas will be shared and decisions made.
Describe roles, group function, and structure.

Describe an example from your practice or your own healthcare experiences in which there has been a shift from the medical model of disease prevention to health promotion in health care.

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Shifting Nursing Practice to Health Promotion and Partnerships

Describe an example from your practice or your own healthcare experiences in which there has been a shift from the medical model of disease prevention to health promotion in health care.

Describe the shift from the individual to the community setting.

Explain the role that the nurse assumes in this transition to merge partnerships in the transition from individual health promotion to the community model of health promotion.

View an intake session between a client and counselor and identify possible initial intake assessment strategies based on current literature. Also identify a possible theoretical framework that will be appropriate for working with this client.

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Week 4 Assignment

For the Week 4 assignment, you will view an intake session between a client and counselor and identify possible initial intake assessment strategies based on current literature. You will also identify a possible theoretical framework that will be appropriate for working with this client.

More specifically, describe the type of initial intake assessment methods you would use for the first two counseling sessions (examples include structured or unstructured interview, behavior observations, and depression/anxiety rating scale). Consider the types of questions you would ask or background information you would want to know about the client portrayed in the video. You can also discuss the type of assessment tool or tools you might use with the client, but this is optional. Make sure you address initial intake “assessment” broadly based on the information from the text as well as the media segment. In addition, identify a theoretical framework and/or evidence-based treatment that is appropriate for working with this client.

After watching the Clinical Case Study of John video provided below, complete the following:

Introduction (1 paragraph).
Brief description of the client (1–2 paragraphs).
Description of a theoretical framework or evidence-based treatment that can be used to work with this client. Be sure to support your conclusions with scholarly sources (2–3 paragraphs).
Overview of an intake assessment process for this client including background information to explore. Include possible initial intake assessment instruments if applicable and detail what additional information you would need to know to continue working with this client. Be sure to support your conclusions with scholarly sources (2–3 paragraphs).
Explanation of the factors to consider when working with a particular population, based on relevant or scholarly sources.
Summary and conclusion (1–2 paragraphs).

 

John’s Clinical Case Study Transcript

Dr. Carl Shire:

Thank you, John, for coming in today. Let us begin by just sharing with me what is going on in your life right now that encouraged you to seek counseling.

John:

Well… it was really my wife's idea for me to come to counseling… but I know I needed to come. I guess I just did not want to feel even worse about my life by coming to a shrink. I always thought I could work out things on my own, but this one has got the best of me.

Dr. Carl Shire:

It sounds like it was a difficult decision to come in, but you are looking forward to working things out.

John:

Yeah. Like I said, I have always handled my problems before, but I am just having the hardest time with it this time. It just seems like my whole world has been turned upside down and… it is all my fault. I have jeopardized my marriage and my job but I cannot seem to figure out why I keep doing the things that I do, and I seem to have no motivation to stop doing them.

Dr. Carl Shire:

Tell me more about how you feel you are jeopardizing your marriage and your job.

John:

Hmmm… Let me see, where to start. It might me easier to tell you how I have not screwed things up. Even thinking about it gets me so frustrated… Well, it started about two months ago when I decided that I did not want to be in the army anymore, and I just felt down about how the world was going. I had a short tour in Iraq, but not in the dangerous parts. But I would just hear these stories of death and war. It just really got me down. I just started doubting everything. Life… everything. That happens sometimes there though. It seems normal.

Dr. Carl Shire:

So what was it like for you when you got home?

John:

Well, I got home about six months ago, and when I came home I… I was okay for a while. I was glad to be home and was so happy to see my wife and son and just – it just felt good to be home.

Dr. Carl Shire:

It sounds like things in your life took a turn?

John:

Yeah… yeah, you could say that. As I said I… I was okay for a while and then I just started loosing motivation to go to work at the base. I was going in late… which… you just do not do in the army. And I just was not getting any work done. My sergeant kept getting on my back but – it does not seem to matter. I just cannot get motivated. And the worst part is – is my sleeping. I just cannot sleep. Well I say I cannot sleep although I spend a lot of time in the bed trying to… that is why my wife started getting tired of me.

Dr. Carl Shire:

It sounds like your life has really been affected by all of this. Your motivation to go to work is low; your boss is noticing; you also said that you are having a lot of trouble getting quality sleep; and your wife is noticing. What else is going on?

John:

Yes, um… really not only my boss and my wife see it, my parents see it, and a couple of my buddies call me out on it. I know that I need to kick this depression – or whatever it is – but it just seems so hard. I have just lost motivation and do not care about anything… Well… it is not that I do not care. I do, that is why I am here but I cannot seem to make myself do the things I need to do. For me… I have noticed that I have a hard time remembering things, and I just get frustrated. Man, I get angry so easy. Like this weekend, I got frustrated because my son wanted to play baseball and I was too tired. He kept asking me and asking me. Then finally I snapped and I told him to leave me alone… That is my son. He does not deserve that.

Dr. Carl Shire:

It sounds like that situation with your son… really saddened you.

John:

That is what gets me down the most. I am disappointing everyone around me. They all care about me and help me out… my wife, my parents, and my buddies, but I keep disappointing them. And to add to the disappointment they all keep telling me that I need to stop drinking because it is making things worse.

Dr. Carl Shire:

Tell me about the drinking.

John:

Well… there is really not much to tell… but, well, I decided about two years ago that I would not drink much anymore. I was exercising, staying in shape – really so I could keep up with my nine-year-old son. I also began to notice that I only did it when I was not feeling good about my life. Well… actually, I did not figure this out on my own. My wife is good about helping me see things more clearly, you know, so the past two years were good, everything was good. Um, I was only having a beer maybe once a month or so… Well, I have been drinking more, especially in the past few months. And my wife is concerned. I know it does not help anything but – it just makes me forget about how crummy I feel.

Dr. Carl Shire:

So what is the drinking like now?

John:

I think I have a few beers, almost every day. And more on the weekends.

Dr. Carl Shire:

Okay. You have shared a lot of important information about what is going on in your life now. I think I have got a good picture of how this depression is impacting your life, your job, your relationships, and marriage, and even impacting how you cope with things, like by using alcohol. You have given me a good picture of the struggles you experience everyday. I am wondering if you could think about what you would like to achieve as a result of coming to counseling. How do you envision your life changing?

John:

That is a good question… It is one I think about every moment of every day… It definitely makes me frustrated… sad… disappointed at myself for letting things get this way. I just want to be happy, like I was before. I want this depression to go away, and I want to feel good again. And I want my wife to not look at me with that disappointment, and I want to feel like I really want to go play ball with my son. I want all of that.

Dr. Carl Shire:

That is a lot. And I think all of it is possible with your motivation. So, where would you like to start?

John:

Hmmm… I need to get rid of this depression and anger. I think that would help a lot. Then maybe I would feel more motivated to do the other stuff.

What is the expected short-run effect on the equilibrium levels of income, employment, and the domestic exchange rate? Explain carefully and use diagrams to illustrate your answers, where necessary.

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Money multiplier

1(a). First, explain the concept of the money multiplier. Then from the information that the narrow money supply (M1) in a hypothetical Canadian economy [with a competitive banking system in which banks produce only demand deposits] is $1750 million,and the idle excess reserves drain coefficient (e) is 3%, the desired cash reserve ratio (r) for demand deposits is 8%, and the currency/deposit ratio (c) is 30%, apply the multiplier model discussed in class or chapter 15 of the textbook to determine and calculate:

(i). The equilibrium level of the monetary base (MB);

(ii) The equilibrium level of demand [chequable] deposits (D);

(iii) The total amount of cash reserves held by banks (BCR), the amount of currency (C) held by the non-bank public;

(iv) The amount of bank loans (BL) and

( v ) The values of the deposit multiplier (dm) and the money multiplier (mm).

(vi) Use diagrams to ILLUSTRATE your answers, where necessary. (10 marks)

1(b). If the economy, however, faces a situation of inflationary pressures, and the monetary authorities implement a macroeconomic policy package (consisting of both contractionary monetary policy and contractionary fiscal policy) to respectively decrease the monetary base by 25% and increase taxes which, in turn, causes the currency/deposit ratio to increase by 25%. Other things being equal,

(i) Calculate the percentage change in the equilibrium level of the money supply after the total policy change and illustrate your answer with an appropriate diagram. (Marks)

1( c ). Now, assume that the money demand function in the above economy stays the same after the policy change.

(ii) What is the expected short-run effect of the total change in the money supply on the equilibrium interest rate of this economy? Explain carefully and illustrate with appropriate diagram(s);

(iii) What is the expected short-run effect on the equilibrium levels of income, employment, and the domestic exchange rate? Explain carefully and use diagrams to illustrate your answers, where necessary. (5 marks).

1(d). If you were an economic advisor, what policy package would you have INSTEAD recommended to deal with the macroeconomic problem stated in the above question? Explain and DEFEND your answer. (5 marks)

4(a). Imagine an economy made up of the people and commodities in the Table 1 below. Each column refers to the commodity listed at the top and each row to the person listed at the left. A positive entry indicates the number of units of the commodity that someone has and is willing to sell. A negative entry indicates the number of units of the commodity that the person wants to buy. Each of these entries refers either to the quantities supplied or demanded given a price of ten dollars per unit of each commodity. For example, Elizabeth has two bushels of potatoes to sell. She wants to buy two hours of child guidance services for her daughter.

Table 1: A hypothetical 331 economy

Potatoes Dance Lessons Child guidance

Elizabeth, the potato farmer +2 0 -2
Anthony, the dance instructor -2 +2 0
Hassan, the child psychologist 0 -2 +2

Notice that all the rows and columns add up to zero. That means we have an equilibrium price system. Each person is able to trade for what is wanted and the quantities demanded and supplied are equal at the given prices.

(i) Assume Elizabeth has twenty dollars. Construct a set of money-using trades that clears the market. . Comment on your answer.

(ii) Construct a set of barter or indirect barter transactions that clears the market. Hint: Remember that services such as dance lessons or child guidance cannot be passed through an intermediary. Comment on your answer.
(15 marks)

4(b). Suppose mortgage rates rise from 5% to 10% but the expected rate of increase in housing prices rises from 2% to 9%, justify whether people would be more or less likely to buy a house? Explain carefully. (5 marks)

What 2-3 specific types of messaging-media-channel mixes will you urge this nonprofit to pursue to help meet its primary mar/comms challenges for the period and start moving forward into a “new normal”?

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Executuve Strategy Brief: The Trevor Project

A very short, synthesized and strong “Why-How-What” opening paragraph about the organization, to provide reassurance to the hiring team that you 1) know why it exists, 2) know what it’s been trying to achieve, 3) know its unique take on its social cause, but also 4) know well how the current climate has exacerbated this nonprofit’s likely (or well-known) current challenges while simultaneously providing some new opportunities for recovery and resilience.
A short “change strategy statement” reflecting what the new normal could and should look like for this organization over the next six months. Example: “…to build new and more immediately effective ways to connect digitally with top audiences still on partial lockdown around a specific cause advocacy initiative using existing resources” or something far more unique and specific to convey what the organization could/should be doing now, realistically, to keep the doors open and advance more wisely through the months ahead. Be sure to craft a statement that specifically states your thinking for what this nonprofit’s unique strategy goal should be during the next six months of uncertainty and social turbulence. Do NOT make this entirely about fundraising.
A quick-and-short, 6-month Strategic Communications and Marketing plan/campaign for it that includes the following:
A brief introduction that summarizes the current public health, political and economic climate and the uncertain fundraising climate ahead for your organization through the end of the year. (Cite this as a very synthesized situational analysis within the context of the nonprofit’s existing lifecycle, type of nonprofit, and whatever you might know about its current finances, if accessible. Assume all nonprofits are being challenged financially in some way now.)

Marketing Goals: If hired, what 1-2 top marketing goals will you deliver that could help the organization build audience engagement, brand awareness and financial resilience during these next six months and beyond? These are the specific primary marketing outcomes for this period that will support the organization’s larger mission.

Organizational Brand: What is your Brand IDEA for the organization during this time? What are you proposing to do for this nonprofit to better bind this organization together more internally and externally during this time? (Provide specific brand-thinking from your marketing toolbox and apply the concepts shared in your study of Brand Democracy, Brand Integrity, and Brand Affinity strategies — but translate them to the level, to apply 1 or 2 or all of them to the specific situational challenges your nonprofit is now experiencing.)

Situation Analysis: In one tightly-written paragraph, synthesize a simple SWOT analysis unique to this six-month opportunity to advance a new normal for this organization. Consider this a challenge and opportunity statement.

Target audiences: What are the 1-2 top audience segments you are telling this nonprofit it needs to engage better to be able to pull off your plan? Why have you chosen these over others to help the organization implement the strategy you’re putting forward? Briefly profile these audience segments, using specific insights from the materials presented in class.
Primary Calls to Action and Messaging: What do you need your target audiences to do? Be specific. How will you persuade your audiences to heed your call to action? How will you frame your messaging tied to the organization’s unique social/service cause? What are the challenges/barriers your messaging must overcome for each one of these 2 audiences?

Marketing Objectives: How are you proposing to measure the success of this strategy you’re proposing? If hired, what 1-2 key success metrics would you put forth to help the nonprofit’s executives measure and determine the usefulness/success of your strategy/work over the next six months?

Tactics: What 2-3 specific types of messaging-media-channel mixes will you urge this nonprofit to pursue to help meet its primary mar/comms challenges for the period and start moving forward into a “new normal”?

Recommendations and Conclusions: Restate the top 1-2 reasons “why this, why now, so what?” to make a strong conclusion. Summarize your short-term strategy for helping this nonprofit move toward a “new normal” to become more resilient in this challenging nonprofit climate. Re-state why hiring you and adopting this strategy would be far more of a measurable benefit than a risk. Conclude with a strong call to action—in this case, to approve the plan and begin executing immediately.

In sum: Short, sweet, impactful, specific. This is an assessment of your ability in a hiring environment to put forth your executive-level skills in strategic communications — based on your work in this class and on the job so far.

Remember, you’re displaying your ability to think strategically about how communications and marketing can be used to identify and meet an organization’s key challenges and opportunities head-on—and drive action around needed change.

How does the Political and Economic situation of Venezuela be a threat in the future for the United States National Security?

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Venezuela Paper

Selecting a research topic
Formulating a problem statement, research question, and thesis statement/hypothesis.
Choosing a methodology & developing a brief research design
Identifying and organizing the debates and themes within the scholarly literature
Writing a literature review
Developing the argument
Editing and drafting the paper
Conducting a proper peer review
Producing a finished, polished paper

Research Question
How does the Political and Economic situation of Venezuela be a threat in the future for the United States National Security?
Paper must be written in Harvard Style

What is the predicted patient portal adoption status for Patient ID 993? If targeted in the marketing campaign, is she likely to become an adopter or stay non-adopter?

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Data analytics

Part A (30 points):
Note: You should use Rapidminer to complete Part A. Remember that the ID column is used specifically for identification and should not be included as a predictor variable in your machine learning prediction model.

Assume you are a manager at a local outpatient clinic.
You would like to offer patients at risk for obesity and hypercholesterolemia early interventions to help improve their health. Use the data in Cholesterol.xlsx file and use machine learning to identify four groups of similar patients, so you can offer tailored interventions to each group. In the gender column, 0 denotes Female, whereas a 1 denotes Male.

1a. What is the average cholesterol for the group with the highest overall cholesterol? (5 points)

1b. Does this group (identified above) have more males or females? (5 points)

2. You have many patients who have still not signed up to use the patient portal, which allows patients to manage several health care related tasks online, such as medication refills, scheduling appointments and messaging their physician.
To increase patient portal adoption, you would like to send a targeted mail campaign to the group of current non-users who are more likely to sign up for the patient portal. Pick an appropriate machine learning program and use the Training.xlsx file to train your model and predict portal adoption for patients listed in Scoring.xlsx

2a. What machine learning algorithm would be appropriate: linear regression or logistic regression? (5 points)

2b. What is the predicted patient portal adoption status for Patient ID 993? If targeted in the marketing campaign, is she likely to become an adopter or stay non-adopter? (5 points)

3. You are interested in learning what factors play a role in patient adoption of patient portals, so you can plan your marketing strategy accordingly. Create a decision tree using the data in Training.xlsx. What is the most important factor determining adoption? (5 points)
Very briefly, what is your observation regarding this variable, as determined by the decision tree? (5 points)

Part B (70 points)
The challenge is to analyze a selected health dataset of your choice, and determine what can be learned from the data. Using any publicly available datasets (you may use any resource included those listed below) retrievable online, use visual analytics techniques in Tableau to identify trends and patterns in your data. You must summarize and discuss your findings in a paper which should follow the outline below (you may add additional sections to your paper, as needed).

Recommended length is 1500-2000 words:
Introduction/Background: Identify the problem, its history and discuss why it is important and worth investigating. Identify and briefly describe the stakeholders.
Method: Indicate the source of the data, any assumptions you made and describe what your data contains. You should also specify the time, population or any other applicable descriptors of your data. Describe what analysis was performed and why.
Results: Summarize your findings. You may include figures/graphs as well as numerical descriptive data (tables) to discuss your results. Describe your findings and their significance, including any interesting trends or patterns you could identify.
Conclusion: Synthesize your results and discuss the implications of your findings for stakeholders and future research. How can your findings help and influence decision making for identified stakeholders?
References

Potential sources for datasets:
Data.gov: https://www.data.gov/ or https://www.data.gov/health/
Agency for Healthcare Research Quality: https://www.ahrq.gov/research/data/index.html
U.S. Census Bureau: https://www.census.gov/topics/health/health-insurance/data/datasets.html
Centers for Disease Control and prevention (CDC): https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data_access/ftp_data.htm; https://wonder.cdc.gov/
Medicare.gov: https://www.medicare.gov/download/downloaddb.asp
Health and Retirement Study: http://hrsonline.isr.umich.edu/index.php?p=avail&_ga=1.143662325.1310570936.1489979753
Big cities Health Coalition: https://bchi.bigcitieshealth.org/indicators/1826/6119
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS): https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/Medicare-Provider-Charge-Data/Physician-and-Other-Supplier.html
The World Bank: http://data.worldbank.org/topic/health