Health

Abstract—The choice of a health plan goes undetected by the primary user, who will be greatly affected by their employers choice of coverage. I will examine today’s competitiveness amongst providers, what factors are used for product choice, and the data source involved in the decision making. Keywords—National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA),Data Quality Modeling, Healthcare Effectiveness and Data Information Set(HEDIS), Health Paln Survey, Affordable Care Act(ACA) Centers for…

I majored in Public Health, because I simply wanted to help make somebody else life a little more better. I knew since I was little that I wanted to be somewhere in the health field, but I was not sure where. Hands on medicine I knew I couldn’t handle, so that just left me working behind the scene, but still saving somebody life. With this degree I could work at so many jobs at the government or non-government organization level. My first dream place to work at is the Center for Disease Control…

The United States is the leading health care spender in the world. It has the highest proportion of specialist physicians and world-renowned surgeons yet it falls short in quality of care. This becomes a problem when an increasing number of patients report long wait times, late test results, and medication errors. Americans also describe their interactions with primary physicians as short, meaningless and confusing including chronic disease patients who feel as if they are treated far worse…

Mental health is coming to awareness in recent years around the United States; however, mental health diagnoses have been present throughout human existence. Not only has mental health been in existence since human beings, but also racism has haunted minorities in negative ways. This short essay will trace the history of mental health, since 1900’s in the United States to some of the recent studies addressing minorities in mental health. Tracing the history of mental health there is an…

Getting insured just makes sound financial sense for any taxpayer because illnesses can destroy a family's financial health. Many successful business owners have lost their businesses because they failed to get health insurance for themselves. Although you could refuse to get insurance and plan ways to avoid enforcement penalties, the work and planning would require incredible powers of prediction and extreme diligence. Refusing to pay the penalty just isn’t a practical solution. Eventually, the…

Introduction: The amount of money the United States spends on health care is increasing, and the quality of health care provided to patients is not improving (Kumar, Ghildayal & Shah, 2011). In order for our society to have an effective health care system, groups of people work together to write policies to define, plan, and determine an action to provide adequate and proper care for citizens. The process is also known as the health care policy process. This process requires careful…

Health Belief Model The medical field is constantly changing and improving. It seems as if each time we go to the doctor we are being informed of a new method or screening that can be done to prevent certain diseases or illnesses. Insurance companies are trying their best to keep up with the latest technology and most try to provide a preventative care option. However, regardless of the cost to the patient, the patient has to feel confident that these screenings are worth their time and that…

the field of global health, a consensus has been reached that we can no longer analyze public health issues through a purely biomedical lens, but must incorporate a wide range of other dimensions, such as political, economic, social, and environmental aspects. All these dimensions converge together to form particular places of health that influence disease exposure and transmission. King asserts that a political ecology framework applied to health provides insight into “how health is situated…

brought invaluable public health competencies that I learned throughout my program, but I also had the chance to refine them and foster growth in competency areas that were less developed. In the next several pages I will discuss both the competencies brought to the project and those gained through the project. What I Brought to the Table The first competency that was put to the test was BPHS/CC 6 – communicate effectively both in writing and orally. The of Master Public Health program at…

number increases every day (Nieves). While health care for mentally challenged individuals in the United States has improved since colonial times, their care today is still insufficient. Mentally ill individuals have endured a long history of misdiagnosis, ostracization, controversial therapies, and failed government intervention, all of which contribute to the inadequacy of current mental health care. Mental…