Managed care

Healthy People 2020 is the national government’s way of setting goals for communities of all of the states to get healthy. “Healthy People 2020 serves as the basis for the development of state and community plans to improve the health of their populations” (Harkness, 2015, p.116). Healthy People 2020 has a group of high risk health issues that they have placed as Leading Health Indicators. These Health Indicators are the states way of engaging the state’s population to become healthier. The…

important topics of the day: health care. Health care impacts each one of us directly or indirectly. Health care has been a topic of conversation since WWII. Initially, health care was a privilege and not a right. There was a cost for this privilege and it came in the form of a premium or monthly payment. Today, we can thank the Affordable Care Act (ACA), for what was once a privilege is now a basic human right for all people. The ACA is paving the way for health care coverage regardless…

Informed patients suffering pain, though, have more control over the outcome of their care than those resigned to an opioid crutch. Pain is a neural signal used by the body to prevent further damage from occurring. Outside of active cancer treatment and palliative, end-of-life care, chronic pain is a symptom that should not be ignored. Unfortunately, the only function of opioid medications is to mask the pain and, effectively, ignore…

social and political restrictions and gaining new rights with more economic, social and political status. Cultural, economic and technological changes made it unescapable for the women to be getting the same rights as men. During this century women managed to establish their status as equal citizens by fighting for their rights to reduce the power of the patriarchy society they were living in. Also, the introduction of different legislations brought liberty for them in many ways, such…

his head that she only has a few more days left to live I want to get as much money out of her before she passes away and gives the rest of her funds to her family and friends. Unfortunately, for Mrs. Abernathy she did not go on to live she only managed to live those extra couple days like the doctor had known but chose not to share and got away with another case of medical malpractice. If only Mrs. Abernathy was aware and knew that her physician had a history of medical malpractice claims…

It is primarily about her because it discusses her travels through the early 1930’s into the early 1940’s but isn’t because the book also follows the story of Molly. A troubled girl from Maine who has been in and out of foster care. Similar to Niamh’s situation as a child. Molly falls into more trouble and finds herself having to do fifty hours of community volunteer work. She ends up working for an old lady named Vivian. Molly at first presumes that the work of clearing out…

time I went to a dental clinic to have a check up on my teeth. I was captivated by how calm and composed the dentist was at that time as he was fixing my teeth. He spoke soothing phrases such as ‘you’re a good girl’ and ‘you’re really good at taking care of your teeth’ to keep me comfortable and calm throughout the procedure. Since then, I have always been fascinated by this caring profession. I believe being a dentist will allow me to help more people to smile confidently in front of others.…

Introduction Health care reform has become a practical global issue, and particularly in developed countries, including the United Kingdom and the United States of America. It is obvious that the current systems are being evaluated. Although these countries have big influence and impact on most nations around the world, they’re still searching for better pathways to inclusive and comprehensive health care systems. Today many people are developing complicated medical conditions due to lack of…

the three major aspects of traditional and ethnic care, disproportions in the quality of health care given minority patients; diverse worth between ethnic, and non-ethnic caregivers, and language contact and support to for individuals with limited English proficiency (LEP) and disabled individuals. Current healthcare executives present diverse agendas for managing these diverse issues (Armada & Hubbard,…

Introduction Since most hip fractures occur in fragile patients, an important advance in the treatment may be a co-managed, multidisciplinary treatment with orthopaedic surgeons and geriatricians. This multidisciplinary care model (MCM) is implemented in some Tuscan hospitals, while in hospitals with an usual care model (UCM) medical consultation is required only as deemed necessary by the admitting surgeon. The primary aim of this study was to assess the effect of MCM on 30-day mortality,…