Diet and Cancer

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Overview:

Nutrition Research Paper (100 points):You will write a short paper (4+ pages of writing) about a nutrition topic from the list provided in Blackboard. Your paper should contain at least 3 peer-reviewed journal articles as sources. Your paper should explain & discuss the major points of each reference. For research articles, discuss the research design, major findings, and major conclusions. Include your own evaluation of the information in these articles: What, in your opinion, is the significance of the information or findings in your 3 articles?

Nutrition Topic Ideas: any essential nutrient (a vitamin or mineral, or a carbohydrate, protein, or fat), a health risk (or risks) of poor vitamin D status, calcium & bone health, folate & pregnancy, diet and cancer risk, diet & blood pressure, health benefits of omega-3 fatty acids, pros and cons of vegetarianism (or meat eating), organic foods and nutrition, health effects of sugar, health effects of caffeine (or coffee), health benefits of nut consumption, the Mediterranean Diet, DASH Diet, diet and dementia risk, health benefits of a phytochemical (find one to write about), health effects of a sweetener (pick one), health effects of dietary fiber, health effects of probiotics, energy metabolism, vitamin D and stress fractures, Creatine supplements for athletes, female athlete triad, energy drinks, effects of breakfast consumption for children, obesity prevention in children, nutrition requirements of athletes (such as body builders or endurance athletes), and many more! Find a nutrition topic that interests you!

Use of Interface Terminologies

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Read the attached article:

How Interface Terminology Makes Standardized Health Information Possible

Using the information presented in the attached article along with your other readings this week, and any additional research you would like to perform, develop a PowerPoint presentation (4-6 slides) about the use of Interface terminologies. Be sure to include notes with your slides to add additional information. In addition to your content slides, make sure to add a title slide and a reference slide! Follow the RUBRIC attached!

Guidelines

Length: 4 – 6 slides

Format: Follow the correct APA Style and include all required components.

Determinants of Health

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Below you will find your assigned health disparity for your assignments this quarter. I would suggest that, in addition to your chapter reading, that you also review pp. 4-8 and 21-33 of your text. In addition, below is an excellent resource from WHO:

Assigned topic : Nutrition

In your research on your assigned determinant of health, you have undoubtedly come across information that leads to more questions. This is your opportunity to post at least one of those questions and your peers will attempt to answer it or lead you to additional information. Your questions can be on a specific point, potential policy recommendation, or another pertinent concern.350 words reference must not be more than 5 years

Marketing Strategy For Scarlet Hospital

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Write a 4–6 page paper in which you:

  1. Based on the textbook’s summary of Timothy’s philosophy of continually striving for excellence, determine whether or not Scarlet Hospital was prepared to compete with the establishment in Salem even before the highway improvement mandated such an upgrade in delivery health care services.
  2. Examine the potential lessons that the Stopping Outshopping case could teach health care executives about complacency.
  3. Evaluate the potential value of Michael Porter’s Five Forces analysis and SWOT Analysis for effective decision-making, in its ability to help Scarlet Hospital protect its market share and thus decrease the chance of losing patients to other institutions in Salem.
  4. Appraise the value of the Balanced Scorecard model in its ability to help Scarlet Hospital executives reinforce its defensive marketing strategy.
  5. Propose a one-page offensive marketing strategy (i.e. communication, branding, innovation, etc.) that Scarlet Hospital should deploy in order to turn the table on Salem-based health care providers and improve its competitive marketing position.
  6. Use at least five quality academic resources. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Developing a Balanced Scorecard

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LaTonya Busby

RE: Discussion – Week 8

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Developing a Balanced Scorecard

Balanced scorecards (BSC) are used by many international organizations either alone or in combination with other techniques to measure performances and manage strategies (Yilmaz, & Antmen, 2019). Mitigating problems within an organization can be facilitated by using a balanced scorecard to develop goals. The scorecard uses numeric data to highlight areas that are doing well or may need to be revised. The measures of performance from the BSC can be used to provides employees and leaders with insight to look more closer at current processes. The strategies surrounding the BSC include financial, customer, internal business processes, and learning and growth (Panggabean, & Jermias, 2020).

As it relates to my project, I would create the BSC by obtaining data from financial summaries, customer satisfaction surveys, employee feedback, and past reviews from JCAHO. The BSC framework allows organizations to monitor, measure, and track the alignment of financial and nonfinancial performance aligned with their strategies and visions (Dhamayantie, 2018). This information will be used to compare and contrast from previous years to provide a baseline. The organizational goals will then be developed and established based on this information to improve customer service, the delivery of patient care, and set new financial goals. The BSC is meant to improve communication within the organization, increase visibility, and improve compliance. From a business mindset, the ultimate goal and focus of the BSC is to grow the organization through improvements which in return will increase the amount of revenue. To evaluate the effectiveness of the BSC, I would monitor progress at least quarterly to look for improvements and to see if additional changes should be made.

Cancer Caregivers

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Course Project: Developing a Strategic Plan

In Week 6, you began to develop a summary of the issue you are addressing through your Course Project. This week, you continue to refine the summary and engage in a SWOT analysis related to the identified unmet need.

Section 1: Summary of the Issue

As introduced in Week 6,continue to develop, write, and refine a 2- to 3-page summary of the issue you are addressing through the creation of a strategic plan. (Refer to Week 6 for the preparatory instructions as necessary).

To complete:

Create a 2- to 3-page summary of the issue, in which you identify and/or describe:

  • The unmet need and how it is evident in the specific group, unit, or organization
  • The mission, vision, and values of the group, unit, or organization
  • Background, including:
    • Data from historical analysis and forecasting
    • Evidence from the literature
    • What has been attempted in the past by various individuals and groups to address this need
    • Which stakeholders should be included in the strategic planning process
  • Initial vision for addressing this need at the institutional or systems level, including at least one strategic goal
  • Broader issues to be considered

DISTINGUISH BETWEEN “WILDNESS” AND “WILDERNESS”? ACCORDING TO LEWIS

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Week 2: E-response to Lewis, Simpson, and Alone

For this week’s e-response, please read the pieces by Michael Lewis 

Actionsand Sherry Simpson,Actions watch the Season 1, Episode 1 of Alone (Links to an external site.), and respond to the following questions:

1.  In American Wilderness: A New History, Michael Lewis argues that “wilderness is simultaneously a real thing and a human construction.”  What does he mean by this?  How does he distinguish between “wildness” and “wilderness”? According to Lewis, how have (western) ideas of wilderness have changed over time?

2. Both Sherry Simpson and the contestants in Alone have chosen to live on their own in the wilderness for a period of time.  What similarities and differences do you find between their experiences?  How do they narrate their relationship with nature?  What connections do you see between these relationships and the history that Lewis described?  Cite specific examples from both text and film to support your answers.

3.  Select a specific scene that stood out to you in both Simpson’s essay and Alone.  What happened in these scenes?  What is your reaction to them?

4.  Each of these pieces use Humanities-based approaches to consider human relationships with nature.  Lewis primarily relied upon environmental history, Simpson engaged in nature writing, and Alone used documentary film (the reality TV-esque version).  Which of these approaches did you find most effective and why?

Your e-response must be at least 400 words in length (total, all answers combined).  It may be longer if you wish.  Thank you!

-Natural and Unnatural Categories

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Week 2: Small Group Discussion–Natural and Unnatural Categories – Natural/Unnatural Categories 1

For this week’s Small Group Discussion, I’d like you to consider the words “natural” and “unnatural.”

For full credit, you must make two posts:

1.  In your own words, how would you define “natural” and “unnatural”?  Specifically, where would you draw the line between natural and unnatural?  Why?  As part of your answer, please include an image, film clip, poem, or piece of art that represents one of these words for you.  Explain why you have selected this representation. Your response must be at least 200 words in length.

2.  Respond to a fellow student in this small group (i.e. what other thoughts, ideas, and/or questions did their definitions inspire for you?).  This response must be at least 200 words in length.

As always, please make sure that your responses are respectful of others in your group.

environmental issue

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Final Project Proposal

For your final project in this class, you will analyze an environmental issue of your choosing using approaches from the environmental humanities: i.e. film, poetry, visual arts (photography, painting, sculpture, screen printing, textiles, etc), history, philosophy, nature writing, fiction, creative nonfiction, personal essay, performance, or others.  Imagine you are communicating an environmental issue to the public (plastic pollution, for example). They’ve heard some reports on scientific data pertaining to the issue: measurements/calculations of tons of plastic in the ocean and impact on marine life population. Your job, however, is to draw on the humanities to further explore the complexities of this issue and communicate those elements to communities beyond the sciences.

This week, you will submit a proposal that outlines the environmental issue you have chosen to explore and the humanities-based approach or approaches you will use.  Your proposal will detail form that your final project will take, the reason you have selected these particular approaches, and the story your project will tell.

Proposal Requirements:

  1. Your proposal should begin with a description of the environmental issue you have selected.  Why have you selected this issue?  Why is it interesting and important to you?  Next, your proposal should describe the environmental humanities approach or approaches you are going to use to analyze and communicate this issue to the public, and the reason you have chosen to use these approaches.  Why are these approaches well suited to thinking through this particular environmental issue?  This section should be at least 200 words.
  2. Your proposal should also describe the form that your final project will take.  What will you submit at the end of the term?  How will you use these environmental humanities approaches to analyze the issue you selected?    This section should be at least 200 words.
  3.  Finally, your proposal should describe the story your project will tell.  In other words: what message will you communicate with this project?  What do you want your audience to feel/understand/learn/do as a result of engaging with your project?   This section should be at least 200 words.

EXPLORING HOW ARTS AND HUMANITIES-BASED APPROACHES CAN BE USED TO CRITICALLY ENGAGE WITH ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

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Final Reflection

Due Sunday, June 7th

This term, we have been exploring how arts and humanities-based approaches can be used to critically engage with environmental issues.  This final reflection is an opportunity to consider how your fellow students have done just that!

For this assignment, please do the following:

1.  Take some time to look through your classmates’ final projects and read about their creative and research processes.

2.  Select the three final projects that had the greatest impact for you.

3.  Write a 700-word reflection about these three final projects (700 words total, not 700 words each).  Please list the pieces you chose by name.

Your reflection should address the following:

  • Why did you select these three projects?  What drew you to each one?  Cite specific details about each project in your answer.
  • What arts and/or humanities-based approaches did each project use?  How did things like sound, imagery, poetry, creative language, color, lack-of-color, emotion, etc. influence your perception of the environmental issue in each project?
  • What message did you take away from each project?
  • Which of the three projects you selected did you find most effective and why?  How did this project help you think differently about the issue? What broader question or questions did this project raise for you?
  • Which of the three projects made the most effective use of background research?  What did you learn from the project as a result?