Health Care Delivery LaKesha Lewis HCA 305 Rebecca Gillaspy August 29‚ 2011 Outline I. What is society’s obligation to ensure access to a basic level of health care for all its citizens and how can it be accomplished? a. Provide adequate levels of healthcare. b. Create local‚ nonprofit managed care plans for low income workers‚ uninsured residents‚ or people living with chronic diseases. II. Should government take a more aggressive role in reshaping the health
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UNDERTAKE AGREED PRESSURE AREA CARE 1.1 Pressure sores also known as pressure ulcers are injuries to the skin and underlying tissue‚ they appear when an area is under too much pressure for long periods of time‚ due to this pressure the blood flow id disrupted‚ and the area doesnt get irrigated‚ therefore the nutrients and oxygen do not reach the skin cells‚ the skin then breaks and the pressure ulcers form. Epidermis - is waterproof has no blood supply(avascular)‚ the epidermis is constantly
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Assignment 206: Understand the role of the social care worker. Task A – Short Answer Questions Ai Explain three differences between a working relationship and a personal relationship. * A working relationship involves spending time with senior members of staff‚ colleagues and service users and the time spent together is strictly professional and boundaries must not be crossed. However a personal relationship involves enjoying a social life‚ spending time with family and friends and completing
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For my diversity assignment‚ I chose to interview my classmate Annemarie Farina. I conducted my interview on February 5th in the Library at Pete’s Café. I first met Annemarie in my Foundations of Public Health class‚ when a few of us agreed to meet up to study. I wanted to interview Annemarie because although we met because of the same major‚ we have differences that are outside of the classroom. This is her second year at UNC Charlotte‚ and this is my first. We also differ in other things including
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and process that affect the overall distribution of disease and health. Health care and public health systems are the social determinants of health and they are mostly responsible for health inequities. Health inequities link closely with social determinants of health. Public Health recognizes that individual-level interventions must occur along with approaches that address community and societal levels of social determinants of health. As part of the President’s Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative
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Leadership Interview Paper I interviewed Becky Hendrix‚ Executive Director for Professional Care Services. I recently had the honor of interviewing someone in our community who has had more than twenty years of leadership experience in our community. The interview ended up taking much longer than I expected because I was so influenced by what she had to say‚ I did not want to miss anything. Mrs. Becky Hendrix started her career as a CPA back in the 80 ’s for the World Color Press. Her leadership
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fifty million Americans today are lacking health insurance. The health care laws available to Americans are not improving the number of people who cannot seek medical help. Health care is so expensive and unfair‚ that the only way to help this problem is to have single payer health care (America Needs a Single Payer Health Care System). Single payer health care is a system in which a single public agency organizes health care financing‚ but the delivery of care remains in private hands. Instead of having
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Unit 13 –Dementia Awareness 1) 1.1. Explain what is meant by the term ‘dementia’ Dementia is a set of symptoms that affect the way people think and interact with each other. It is not a disease‚ but can often be linked to a disease or damage done to the brain. Short-time memory‚ mind‚ speech and motor skills are affected. Certain forms of dementia cause a change in the personality of the individual. A person suffering from dementia will lose certain skills and knowledge they already had. This
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Today‚ in Canada there are two types of health care systems. The current and most predominant system is the public health care system‚ which offers health care to everyone who needs it with little or no costs. The other form of health care that is making a recent wave in health care is called a two-tier health care system. This type of health care offers both a current public system as well as a for-profit parallel private system. Each one of these health care options can be beneficiary in many of
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Affordable Health Care Act Name of Professor Institution Affiliation Affordable Health Care Act According to the journal ‘The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing’ Sorrell attempts to ascertain how legislature‚ individual and communities struggle to enact health care reforms that are upheld constitutionally in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). The health care act was first enacted in 2010. The Affordable Care Act outlines important ethical reforms of justice that provide
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