Based on the course learning objectives listed below, explain the most important concepts you learned from this course and how you think you might apply these concepts in your future career?

Course Objectives

• Outline a communication plan for a public health emergency.
• Identify factors involved in risk communication.
• Outline the principles of modern quarantine.
• Summarize responses to pandemics.

Due Date: Your initial post is due Tuesday of Week 8 by 11:59 p.m.(CST). There are no exceptions!
Peer responses are NOT required for the Week 8 Discussion.

Please respond to the following questions based upon these course objectives:

• Discuss performance improvement models, health policy, national initiatives, and professional advocacy roles and their contributions to the design of quality and performance improvement programs.
• Identify improvement opportunities based on performance measurement.
• Use teamwork in performance improvement.
• Aggregate and analyze performance improvement data.
• Develop and manage performance improvement process using project management principles.
• Review and evaluate the performance improvement programs.
• Identify the components of risk management, incident reports, and sentinel reporting.
• Identify the use of criteria sets and indicators that are used in preadmission screening, utilization management, and discharge planning.

Please answer the following questions with supporting examples and full explanations.

1. For each of the learning objectives, provide an analysis of how the course supported each objective.
2. Explain how the material learned in this course, based upon the objectives, will be applicable to the professional application.

Provide evidence (citations and references) to support your statements and opinions. Responses to these questions are due by Tuesday at noon.

All references and citations should in APA format.

There is no peer response required for this discussion, but feel free to discuss these topics with classmates.

Read the posted articles first and answer each of the questions briefly (in 3-4+ statements/sentences). You can provide longer responses if you want to and believe it will be useful to you, but the brief is fine (50 points).

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Choose a health issue or problem pertinent to a specific population experiencing a health disparity. In a 1,500-1,750 word paper, discuss the factors that contribute to the health issue, identify a theory or model that relates to the health issue, and propose a health promotion intervention to improve health outcomes. You may use any relevant resources from your Annotated Bibliography from Topic 5 for support. Include the following components:

1. Introduction: Identify and describe the health issue you are addressing and the population affected. Provide a concise synopsis of the purpose of the paper and a general introduction to the target population and the health issue.
2. Relationship Between Health Issue and Target Population: Provide a description about the target population that you have selected, including demographic information about the population. Describe the health issue in relation to the population you chose.
3. Contributing Factors/Social Determinants of Health: Describe the reasons or causes for the health issue. Analyze how social, cultural, behavioral, and psychological factors contribute to the health issue among this population, and the health disparity experienced by the population. Evaluate structural bias, social inequities, and racism that undermine health and create health inequity among this population. Describe under which level of interaction these causes and contributing factors fall: intrapersonal, interpersonal, community, or all three.
4. Theory or Model: Identify the theory or model that best explains the behaviors associated with the health issue selected, as well as best matches the level of interaction for contributing factors. Discuss how this theory or model applies to the health issue you are addressing and provide a rationale for choosing this theory. Describe examples of how this theory has been used successfully in the research literature.
5. Conclusion: Describe health promotion strategies or behavior change strategies to reduce health disparities and health inequity related to the health issue among this population.

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