CheckPoint (Assignments Link): Features of Health Plans When reading week one’s listed material of chapter one I have found there are five major types of health care plans that are covered in the material. These five major types of heath care plans are Indemnity Plans‚ health maintenance organizations (HMO’s)‚ Point-of-Service (POS)‚ preferred provider organizations (PPO’s)‚ and consumer-driven health plans. All of these different types of health plans‚ or insurance have both similarities
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setting is an ideal location to incite micro-level qualitative research techniques. Micro sociology is sociological investigation that stresses the study of small groups‚ often through experimental means. Qualitative research is a study collected from what can be observed form a naturalistic social setting. Through going through a shift as a housekeeper in the social setting of RMH hospital in Rockford‚ IL‚ I collected all data through observation of two small groups and their social relationships‚
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Introduction In an attempt to demonstrate the Principles of Health & Social care and based on the ABC Care Homes case study‚ this essay would explain how the principles of support are applied in a care home setting as well as outline the procedures that could be used in protecting service users and colleagues as well from harm while analysing the benefits accruable to a adopting a person-centred approach when dealing with services users. More so‚ the essay would explain ethical dilemmas as well as
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of Obama care 1. Allows everyone the opportunity to have health insurance and receive the proper care needed to stay as healthy as possible. 2. Increases the income criteria to ensure that everyone in need of healthcare is not omitted. 3. Individuals will be able to afford their medications due to the expansion of insurance coverage. 4. More coverage means more use of the services provided to ensure good health and having the ability to pay the bill. Cons of Obama care 1. Obama
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released a report in October 2010 that set out to answer the question‚ “what roles can nursing assume to address the increasing demand for safe‚ high-quality‚ and effective health care services?” . Three ways that the report suggests to do this are to utilize nurses to their full extent of education and training‚ a higher level of education for nurses and a stronger leadership role. . Nurses make up the largest segment of the health care workforce and have the capacity to positively impact healthcare in
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Health Care Reform On March 23‚ 2010 President Barack Obama signed The Affordable Care Act‚ also known as health care reform‚ into law. (whitehouse.gov‚ 2013) The Affordable Care Act has brought on a lot of controversy within our country mainly because the people who oppose the new act are not well informed on what the aspects of the new law entail. With so many details to this new law‚ it is no wonder why so many American’s are confused; the Affordable Care Act is meant to help us not to hurt us
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Access to Health Care Access to health care refers to the individual’s ability to obtain and use needed services (Ellis & Hartley‚ 2008). Access to health care affects a multitude of people. Uninsured‚ underinsured‚ elderly‚ lower socioeconomic class‚ minorities‚ and people that live in remote areas are at the highest risk for lack of access to health care. There are also economical and political roles that complicate access to health care. Access to health care is a multi-faceted concept
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“Information is the lifeblood of medicine and health information. Technology is destined to be the circulatory system for that information.” --David Blumenthal‚ National coordinator for Health Information Technology and lead implementer of the HITECH Act Technology advancements and new technology are being introduced every day‚ especially in the field of nursing and is changing the way we look at healthcare. The nursing field has come a long way in just a short time when it comes to technology
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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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When talking about health it is not just about the overall condition of a person whether physical or non-physical such as psychological‚ spiritual and social well-being and not just the absence of illness or disability. Health can also be the ability to manage and adjust to different situations and achieve optimistic holistic understanding. Health inequalities is the dissimilarities of a well-being status among person or groups‚ as measured by factors such as lifespan‚ death or sickness. It also
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