The GCSE Health and Social Care: actively engages students in the processes of Health and Social Care to help them develop as effective and independent learners encourages students to understand aspects of personal development and the health‚ social care and early-years sectors through investigation and evaluation of a range of services and organisations develops a critical and analytical approach to problem-solving within the health‚ social-care and early-years sectors examines issues which
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The United States faces a major crisis in primary health care‚ and unless Congress acts immediately it is likely to become much worse. It is widely acknowledged that we currently have the most wasteful‚ inefficient‚ and expensive health care system in the world. American health care is caught in a vise‚ which has created a dire situation. The squeeze comes from the positive gains in life expectancy on one side and unsustainable medical costs on the other. Meanwhile‚ headlines are being grabbed by
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Health Care Industry Overview OVHR66 John Dean Health Care Industry Overview The health care industry has many career opportunities that are available and many of these areas have little or no patient interaction. All of these fields are just as vital to patient care and the seamless running of a healthcare organization as the clinical patient care is. Medical device sales‚ clinical engineering‚ health information management‚ and healthcare risk management all happen daily in the health
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Model Approaches in Health Resource Allocation and the Ethics Involved. Christopher Kono Resource allocation is simply the distribution of recourses. Health care resource allocation on the other hand is the distribution of health care resources‚ it includes material things such as equipment or drugs and the human aspect which is the people involved like
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Health Care Access Options Sherri Olubode HCS/490 - Health Care Consumer - Trends and Marketing June 7‚ 2015 Jennifer Johnson Health Care Access Options With today ’s world of healthcare options‚ it is near impossible to know just what your community offers in the way of access to health care. This paper will assist in narrowing down three options: 1. A walk in clinic 2. A retail clinic 3. A web-based resource for health care The community that we will look at is a city in the county of Riverside
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How can community health nurses apply the strategies of cultural competence to their practice? A nurse can be a part of helping a patient’s cultural preservation in their practice. For example‚ some people in the Jamaican culture hold nine-day wakes for deceased persons. The wake is a time for respecting and honoring the departed soul. For nine nights‚ relatives and friends share food and sing hymns‚ thus saying goodbye to the departed one (). A nurse can advocate for a patient from Jamaican
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effective. Low health literacy‚ cultural barriers‚ and limited English proficiency have been coined the "triple threat" to effective health communication by The Joint Commission (Schyve‚ 2007). Forms of communication are important in everyday life but can be crucial in regards to health care. In communication the health care team must first understand where that patient is from to what and how they can address the situation to start the process. This is called cultural awareness. The health team members
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national health insurance system was presented in the beginning of the twentieth century during President Teddy Roosevelt’s candidacy (cite). However‚ the system was not created until 1965 as President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a bill‚ establishing both Medicare and Medicaid (cite). Initially‚ Medicare served to provide health coverage and payment of doctor and hospital visits‚ dental care‚ nursing services‚ etc. (cite). At the time‚ only 56% of individuals over the age of 65 acquired health insurance
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governing body of the process of making it by the acts of Parliament. Legislation in health and social care is health and safety. You need to ensure that there is always safe practice when providing care or help. There are policies and regulations that you have to follow to make sure you are safe at work as well as service users and others around you‚ this is to help protect the public. An example of legislation is the Care Standards Act 2000‚ regulations are the rules you have to follow‚ where you work
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most interesting part in Gupta’s article is in her conclusion. The author notes that fraud in the health sector is a reality and should be exposed. Gupta further states that clinical operations are vulnerable to fraud because the system lacks effective mechanisms to detect‚ investigate‚ and prosecute individuals or groups of people who engage in fraud. Finally‚ the author calls on everyone in the health sector to develop a culture of research‚ which should be based on fundamentals of openness‚ integrity
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