Sulejma Tmusic 3/14/2013 MED100A ASSIGNMENT 7.1 Understanding cultural beliefs is necessary to a healthcare provider because cultural differences affect patients’ attitudes about medical care. Diverse beliefs and attitudes about health and medicines‚ may affect treatment. Also it affects the patient’s ability to understand and cope with an illness‚ and the consequences of medical treatment. Cultural beliefs influence patient roles and expectations. Expectations such as how much information
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leading causes of death in America. Impact of Affordable Care Act of 2010 The Affordable Care Act is a health care reform law‚ which was made to make healthcare affordable and available to more people. “An estimated 30 million Americans were expected to gain health insurance through the Affordable Care Act” (HERITAGE) causing many people who suffer from chronic diseases to now have coverage for their medical needs. The Affordable Care Act helped with getting people properly diagnosed with their
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Priorities of Health Care Priorities of Health Care With the current changes happening within the United States of America‚ one of the major changes is with Health Care. We take a look at what someone in the Healthcare profession feels are some of the top priorities that should be looked at. I interviewed a friend on November 7th‚ 2013 who is a Registered Nurse at a local hospital and what he feels we need to focus on. Quality of Care The
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The globalization of health care 1 What are the facilitating developments that have allowed health care to start globalizing? There are some reasons that have allowed health care globalizing. Firstly‚ there is the high cost of medical care in the US. And US have the largest number of patients. Secondly‚ many Americans are uninsured and underinsured and it is much more expensive for them to treat in America than fly abroad to get treatment. Thirdly‚ there are more and more high-quality private hospital
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Health Care Costs My family has an insurance plan that covers most of our health care costs. However‚ there are some things that insurance will not cover. These are things that my family has to pay for ourselves. These things include contacts for eyes‚ glasses repair‚ tooth paste‚ tooth brushes‚ floss‚ pills‚ medicine‚ tinctures‚ and blood tests. However‚ even though insurance doesn’t pay for our tooth paste‚ tooth brushes‚ and floss‚ we still get them for free‚ because my aunt is a dental hygienist
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Competition in health care markets benefits consumers by reducing costs‚ reducing waste‚ improving quality‚ encouraging innovation‚ promoting growth and improving customer satisfaction (Glover and Rivers‚ 2008). Competition influences the direction of a company and will force a company to choose specific services‚ better pricing‚ and to demand quality products to retain the competitive edge for their patients. Davenport and Harbage‚ 2009 published “Lack of competition in this critical marketplace
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Maintaining the privacy of health patient records is extremely important in the health care industry. Every healthcare provider in different areas of the health care field obtain prerequisite training in maintaining patient privacy and have an obligation to ensure patient information is kept private. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ensure health insurance is portable and protection for privacy of patient medical information (Henderson‚ 2009). A requirement of the healthcare
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affects the health care sector in a profound way. Prescription medicine spending is a concern because of the rise in prescription cost‚ the aging population‚ and the advancement of special drugs. The cost increase in prescription drugs exceeds all other growth in other health care categories‚ including hospital care. Prescription medicine is some cases prevent long-term health care‚ which assist in a decline of cost in hospital care and surgeries. The 10% share of the health care market that
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Fiona Sutherland carried out on 29/11/12 Fiona Sutherland interview/primary research:- Our service is commissioned by the Public Health Dept of the local Primary Care Trusts (City and County). We are the Leicester‚ Leicestershire and Rutland Chlamydia Screening Programme funded by two separate PCTs. These hold the funding for all manner of public health services‚ depending on evidence of need and national direction. The purpose of the NCSP is to reduce case of Chlamydia and transfer cases
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Marginalisation‚ means being pushed to the margins of society‚ this means that you are unable to participate in the health and care services that are available. In health and social care no one should be marginalised no matter what their background is circumstances‚ sexual orientation on health status. * Disempowerment means that a group of people are discriminated‚ by the health professions it could be the nurses in the hospital discriminating against the group of people; this also means that
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