Nations Health Care Delivery Systems

Module 8

Based on what you’ve learned in the course, you’ll engage with one another in exploring the question, “where do we go from here?”

Let’s have a truly engaging and active dialogue in our last week together! Start early, making sure to read what others have written and then add substantively to the discussion. Avoid mini-papers; instead, talk with one another and build new understandings of our course materials and all we are learning this week – and over the term!

Based on all that you have learned this term:

1. From your perspective of the degree plan you are pursuing in health sciences, nursing, or public health, what progress do you think has been made as we think about reform in the health care industry, and how has that perspective changed (if at all) from when you began this course 2 months ago?

Now applying your readings, let’s go through the questions together one at a time.

2. Consider the topics presented in the course over the past 8 weeks: priority populations, access, health organizations, the health workforce, cost, quality, and prevention. If you had the opportunity to formulate a plan to help reform the health care industry, which of these topics would you tackle first, and what would that plan look like? How does it help us to answer the question of where we go from here? Be sure to support your recommendations with the course materials (required) and any other credible external materials as desired (provide full citations).