Adverse Selection in Insurance Markets

  • Analyze the implications of adverse selection in insurance markets that contain information asymmetry and community ratings. Justify your response.
  • Analyze the primary ways in which analysts may use a model of the labor market to explain wage and employment figures for health care workers. Propose the main ways in which health status affects workers’ compensation overall. Provide at least one example of the model in use to support your response.

Transtheoretical Model & Behavioral Change

Please provide a quick overview of a Transtheoretical Model that specifically outlines its key characteristics. There are known research studies conducted and some strong evidence of successful implementation of the principles of this model in the area of smoking cessation. Please outline and briefly talk about two of the required interventions applicable to each of the five stages of change of this model: pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length.

Prevention Strategies for High Risk Behaviors

There is growing evidence that a person’s race, ethnicity, gender, income, disability, sexual orientation, and geographic location determine the likelihood of many chronic diseases. Many public health promotion community programs are trying to reduce chronic diseases by focusing on the common risk factors of tobacco use, physical inactivity, and poor nutrition. Please outline some of the commonly used disease prevention strategies that focus on high-risk health behaviors.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length.

Health Belief Model

Please describe the decision-making process an individual would go through before taking a health-related action, in accordance with the Health Belief Model. Also, please discuss some of the limitations/critiques of this model.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length.

Public Health Transtheoretical Model

Envision a patient/client who needs to change a health behavior, such as sedentary lifestyle, smoking, or excessive alcohol consumption. This patient/client is unaware that a change in behavior is needed.

Create a PowerPoint presentation for this patient that takes them from the pre-contemplation stage all the way to lasting behavior change. In your presentation, explain to your patient/client the different stages of change, how people move through them, and the specific actions needed to move from one step to the next.

Your presentation should be 7-12 slides, not including title and references slides. Please add audio narrative to the presentation and include the script on the Notes section of each slide.

Leadership Traits Portrayed by Mother Teresa of Calcutta

The purpose of this assignment is to examine the theoretical framework, style, and leadership traits of effective leaders.

In Topic 2, you selected a book about leadership by a successful leader whom you believe has adopted leadership as a vocation.

In an analysis of minimum 750-900 words, examine the theoretical framework, style, and leadership traits presented in the selected book. Discuss how this particular individual has adopted leadership as a vocation. Additionally, from the perspective of a leader, describe which qualities of this person you would seek to emulate in order to inspire followership, including which shortcomings of this leadership approach would you attempt to overcome. Be sure to cite examples from the book and integrate a minimum of four secondary sources on leadership theory to support your analysis.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

Evaluation Based on Quality and Safety

Preparation

In this age of acute competition and alignment of providers, systems are evolving to improve contracting opportunities, including population health, accountable care organizations, and models of health care delivery. They are targeting quality care at a value price. This assignment explores a provider of your choice to determine their desirability to be a member of a system and recommend improvements they may need to make to become more competitive in their market.

Instructions

Write a two to three (2-3) page proposal in which you evaluate and make recommendations for a provider you have chosen in terms of safety, quality, and evidence-informed health care by doing the following:

1. Choose a health care provider — nursing home, hospital, home care, etc.

2. Using the search function at one of the medicare.gov sites (https://www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare/search.html or https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/search.html), review your provider’s measures on safety, quality, and evidence-informed health care. Pay attention to the publicly reported outcomes on mortality, rehospitalization, and infection rates, as well as patient satisfaction and preventive care.

Life Span Availability of Birth Control

  1. Your initial post (your response to the topic) must contain a citation. It is your ideas supported by research. Please refer to the APA . There will be a deduction of 20 points for failure to cite a source within your initial post and to provide a reference at the end of your initial post.
  2. Your post must be a minimum of 300 words. Please double-check your word count. Only posts that meet the word count requirements receive credit.
  3. Post your word count at the end of the post. There will be a 5 point deduction for each failure to provide a word count.
  4. Please address fellow professor by name. There will be a 5 point deduction for each failure to address by name.
  5. Please use spell-check and proper grammar. Points will be deducted for each spelling and grammatical error up to 10 points for each post.

Ethics and the Physical Therapy Profession Reflection

Write a reflection paper on How Our Choices Can Lead to Unethical Practices in the Future with a focus

on ethics and the meaning of being a physical therapy professional.

 This should be submitted as a formal paper include the following:

1) synthesis of a thorough

review of the literature,

2) application information gleaned from the APTA Professionalism

Modules (1-3 (ATTACHED) ) and

3) a reflection of the completed attached “Professional Behaviors Assessment

Form”.

The parameters of the paper are listed below:

Minimum of 10 and maximum of 15 pages double-spaced 12 font in Times New Roman

Minimum of 10 references from academic journals within the last 10 years

Death of A Patient Root Cause Analysis

Unit 6 Assignment – Root Cause Analysis

Submit Assignment

  • Due Apr 12 by 11:59pm
  • Points 70
  • Submitting a text entry box, a website url, a media recording, or a file upload

The death of a patient (as described in the Real Life Scenario (text Chapter 11, pages 233-234) is always classified as a sentinel event. The Joint Commission requires the organization to do a root-cause analysis when such an event occurs. The purpose of the analysis is to discover what processes led to the occurrence. In this assignment, students will use the “cause and effect fishbone diagram” which is the most commonly used technique used in a root cause analysis. This exercise will give students experience in conducting the root cause analysis that is used in actual hospital situations