Health Care Article Reviews Samples For Students

Petrecca, L. (2012). 'Supersized' drinks on the way out in NYC. Accessed From http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012/09/13/supersized-drinks-on-the-way-out-in-nyc/57775970/1

This form of law is almost impossible to regulate on individuals considering that even if the supersized drinks are reduced to the 16-ounce cap, consumers still have the choice to consume more than one cup. A person may also opt to buy sugary drinks from the grocery and convenience stores which would not be affected by such law. To drink or not to drink is solely a personal choice. As such, a law seeking to reduce the quantity of supersized drinks as a way to improve health is myopic. Instead the government should endeavor to change the mentality of the consumers through ...

Introduction

Korrane in the article “The Role of the Long-Term Acute Care Hospital” discusses the complexity that defines long-term health care where patients present themselves with a wide range of system failures, organ transplant complications, trauma brain injuries, acquired brain injuries and complex wounds. These failures do not just require a need to be treated to facilitate normal physiologic functioning but also hold a significant concern for the patient’s survival. Korrane notes that the most challenging aspect is to monitor a host of dysfunctions of the vital body organs and implement the most reliable techniques to help the patient regain a normal life.

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It is a true fact that no solitary factor can fully explain the U.S health disadvantage. To me, it has numerous causes and comprises some mixture of insufficient health care, unfavorable economic, detrimental behaviors and social conditions. Without proceedings to invalidate existing trends, the health of the United States will doubtless continue to plummet behind that of citizens in the other developed countries.

This is an example of the posts used by Obamacare to familiarize the citizens on the existence of these cares.

The article describes further that those who haves lives in the rural areas and they are also against the Obamacare. Living in the rural areas makes this particular group to eat a healthy diet, unlike the minority group ...

The article reported on the upward trend in health spending growth in 2011. In 2011, per capita and total spending on health care increased. For instance, between 2010 and 2011 estimated per capita expenditure for claims filed under employer-sponsored health insurance rose up to 4.6 percent (Roehrig, 2011). Based on age group, health spending increased significantly for children reaching 7.7 percent increase over 2010. Based on the region the HCCI report indicates that the Northeast had both the highest dollars spent per capita and the highest growth in spending. According to the producer price index, Medicare prices increased by ...

CDC Trends and Analysis

The health of Americans requires improvement in various areas and Healthy People 2020 focuses on improving the Health of Americans by:

- Identifying and prioritizing health improvement opportunities through research and evaluation
- Bringing together all relevant stakeholders including communities for a collaborative effort
- Empowering people for informed decision making (Healthy People 2012)

Improvement Suggestions

Cultural and linguistic competency among healthcare providers is highlighted as one key factor affecting the health of a population (Perez and Luquis, 2008). Consequently, Healthy People should list cultural and linguistic competency among healthcare providers as a Key Performance Indicator (KPI) that will help improve the nation’s health through reduction of health disparity. This should be followed by continued effort to increase ...

An Article Review

Summary
In the article Commentary on a Framework for Multicultural Education by Karin F. Hammerich (2014), the purpose is to converse about whether a structure for multicultural education is necessary, following a line of investigation and study on cultural competency preparation. This article is about how multicultural aspects affected the quality of care offered by healthcare providers, especially the chiropractors. It also aims to uplift the proposal of expanding the educational college core curriculum in order to truly produce trained healthcare providers who will become diverse in terms of healthcare practices and services.
After researching, evaluating, and gathering details about ...

The Physician assistants’ practice was introduced in the United States of America during the late 1960s. The introduction of Physician assistants was to address the shortage of doctors (Hooker, Roderick and Everette, 20) Physician assistants have provided remarkable support to the physicians alongside the nurses in the USA. Their contribution especially in the primary healthcare can, therefore, not be underestimated. The increase in the physician assistants’ number over the years has been due to the global shortage of primary care doctors. The employment of the physician assistants has been a reasonable strategy in the primary healthcare provision in diverse populations ( ...

Introduction

This paper aims at critically analyzing the role played by the knowledge possessed by nurses and how it helps in the delivery of services in health cares. The research also seeks to highlight the importance of the resources used by nurses to acquire the much-needed knowledge (Barker, 2009). The staffing crisis problem occurs when knowledge in the provision of care is limited in nursing. When nurses lack inadequate knowledge in providing care, it is equal to not having enough staff. The costs of healthcare are very high, which means that patients need to get the best form of care ...

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The onset of the implementation of Electronic Health Records has had an effect on the professional and physical autonomy of highly trained professional physicians specifically in the healthcare organizations. Electronic Health Records trigger a certain take by HC professionals contributing to observable changes in Healthcare Organizations following a response from the HC professionals. Their response reflects the data collected from the physicians through interviews. The topic raises a controversy to whether the effects are more constraining due to the managers using the Electronic Health Records to exercise more control (McGimpsey, 2011). Some of the many positive effects that come with ...

USA Health Care System

Over the years, the health care system of many nations has evolved. The changes, some good and some bad, can be attributed to the cultural view of health care, situational factors, employee insurance coverage of health care and other economic factors. The most important factor that has changed, especially in the ever-growing US health care market, has been the spiraling costs of such care. Employers have been under greater burden of providing for the ever-rising costs of medical care and are trying to reduce such burden through covering less, covering fewer persons, passing the increases onto employees, or simply ...

Challenges in Integrated Healthcare SystemsOrganizations have to follow a good articulation of steps in order to regulate integration of healthcare systems. The primary aim of any healthcare organization is to provide a good medical facility to its patients and thereby increase its profits. The integration of healthcare organizations is a rapidly growing area. It is a viable option to provide best facilities to the patients. It makes their medical visits hassle free as the system brings all the specialties under than one roof and delivers it to the patients as a single package. Hospitals can also reduce the costs significantly by this approach. So, ...

Introduction

In the “Health Disparities Between Appalachian and Non-Appalachian Counties in Virginia USA,” the authors examine health disparities among people living in Appalachian counties compared to those in other counties. This paper finds the authors’ research compelling, their views intelligent and most importantly worth consideration.

Summary

The communities in Appalachia have inadequate health care resources. This has been associated to lack of specialty care providers in the area. Ironically the utilization of the health resources is low even when they are available. This is possibly due to lack of insurance services, inadequate funds for payments or simply related to Appalachian culture ...

In the near future, the healthcare problems in the U.S will worsen while new challenges arise. Even though various forms of new technology are on the verge of increasing efficiency, the overall costs for new treatments add outweigh the savings (Niles. 2011). The physicians will get better in treating problems while at the same time lengthening patients’ lives. This increases the levels of people in need of care. Similar to the automobile insurance policies, the healthcare coverage will be necessary (Matcha, 2003). Members of a family will use different plans through changing plans yearly. The uninsured citizens in the past ...

Tort Law

Tort Law Article Review
The article was written by Becca Aaronson and was published at the New York Times in January 2013. It was about the case of Connie Spears who later suffered from legs amputation after an initial alleged misdiagnosis of her medical condition at Christus Santa Rosa hospital. The concept of this article is about the Tort Law's provision when it comes to being a state law that would help the people within the state of Texas. It aims to show how the Tort Law’s provision could affect an individual’s case proceedings right after it ...

Executive Summary

In their article “Specialties: Missing in Our Healthcare Reform Strategies,” authors Kuramoto and Kieffer discuss the possibilities and advantages of working with specialties to create viable referral systems and networks. In the summary, they note that specialties are often in greater demand by hospitals than there are practitioners to meet that demand. Even with this distinct employment advantage, specialists often choose to remain independent from hospitals and care networks. By doing so, they create their own system which often offers higher satisfaction and better results. Despite this setup, specialists and hospitals still stand to gain significant advantages from allying ...

Technology has led to efficiency in the health care industry. This technology continues to expand due to high investment in research and development in health care. As the technology improves, so will there be more job opportunities for practitioners. New careers will materialize as people handle technology in affecting the health care (Fett, 2006). Technology has given a major boost in quickly gathering medical records since they can rely on the computer system. The computer system enables the review of patients’ records and scheduling of appointments as well as administration of treatment. There have been significant innovations in the field ...

This essay analyzes the published article: “Overuse of Antibiotics Spurs Vicious Cycle” (Jun 2010). The article is published by Dr Joseph Mercola on his website: “Mercola. Com: Take control of Your Health” and seeks to educate and persuade readers that current overuse of antibiotics in treating people is likely to cause patients to develop resistance to the drugs, which can have a residual effect for as much as a year after the medication is ended.
Summarizing Mercola’s article, he uses logos in suggesting that the more these antibiotics are prescribed routinely to treat mild illness such as coughs and ...

Article Reviews: Law

Article 1: Question: Please review this article and respond with your thoughts on how this type of law may or may not go too far with respect to regulation of the individual.
In light of the serious obesity problem in the U.S., there is certainly a case for legislating to help those who lack the knowledge or the willpower to reduce their calories intake. Human nature being what it is, many people either find it difficult to resist those extra snacks or calories in drinks, so curbing the sale of the larger-sized sugary drinks could be seen as a positive ...

Hospital CEO ad CIO perspectives on information technology issues in health care is a survey of 1400 US hospitals. The article is aimed at establishing the CEOs and CIOs think about Information technology I healthcare. The themes that were under survey are; implementation of electronic medical records and improving health care quality through information technology. Improved medical services include; security, accuracy and change management in hospitals. Other themes in this article include; healthcare supply chain, compliance with regulations, decision support systems, national database and consumer empowerment.
The article starts with an introduction to Healthcare Information Technology (IT) and how ...

Health care management is the profession that offers leadership and direction to the organizations that provide personal health services as well as units, departments, divisions and services in those organizations. This implies that healthcare management is necessitated by the nature of organizations which requires managers and other heads to provide leadership, coordination and supervision of employees. This is done so that organizations can achieve their goals which are not possible to attain through a single individual. It also implies that the complexity and scope of the tasks carried out while providing services area high to the extent that staff cannot ...

National health insurance by the current American regime is actually a good indication that the country has decided to avoid bad health. This may seem clear except for the fact that the insurance system is meant to reduce the expenses of a nation without necessarily making the person lose track of other expenses. This may be the case of America if the citizens did not have to have a rigid system of healthcare insurance. I must commend the idea of having a live insurance plan for the citizens but for the need to pay heavily for it. Currently, Americans tend to be the ...

Introduction

This article is authored by Hilary Lloyd and Stephen Craig. Hilary is a principal lecturer specifically in Nursing Practice, Development and Research in Sunderland, Unite Kingdom. The co-author, Stephen Craig is a senior nursing lecturer in Northumbria University, in Newcastle, United Kingdom. The title of the article is “A Guide to Taking a Patient’s History”. The article was accepted and published in the journal called “Nursing Standard”. The article was published on the twenty fourth or August in the year two thousand and seven.

Summary of the Article

The article is focused on the process of taking patient history. In authoring the article, Llyod & Craig ( ...

Abstract

This is a summary of the three religions Buddhism, Wiccan, and Jehovah Witnesses. This paper gives an insight into the healing perspective adopted by three religions: Buddhism, Wiccan and Jehovah’s Witness. It is a summary and what their faith is based on and how each faith approaches their healthcare. The paper gives an overview of how the three religions approach the subject of healing, and how this fundamental shift can be assimilated by healthcare practitioners for the purposes of improving health outcomes. Also comparing this to Christianity and what this will mean to you and how you will treat patients ...

Discussion on Ethical Issue

The situation at the healthcare institute on moral grounds is not sound at all. The aggravated situation is caused by the added financial stress that is faced due to the Affordable Care Act and changing reimbursement strategies. Human Resource in the institution is lacking due to the reason that we have not opted to recruit any further new graduate nurses in order to tackle the financial stress that the institution is facing. Morally the situation is worsened, as the institution will have to deal with the situation with the remaining registered nurses. Human Resource is not that much which ...

Introduction

In the United States, and in other developed countries, healthcare is treated more like a necessity than a benefit, contrary to the way how most developing countries prioritize the provision for healthcare and other health and wellness-related services, wherein it is perceived more like a luxury. This is one of the main reasons why there are a lot of thriving health and medical insurance companies in the U.S. and other developed countries. The citizens in those places are willing to pay a premium just to get the best healthcare services for themselves and their family members, who basically act as dependents in a family health ...

Response to Post of Student 1:

I am convinced that the main paint being relayed was that at the onset, by having decided to pursue the profession in healthcare, practitioners have already manifested a genuine and innate drive or motivation to serve. Healthcare is such a challenging and dynamic endeavor that entices only those with distinct calling for the profession. As such, valance, or the perceived importance of the work is duly ingrained. Likewise, other motivational components (self-efficacy and expectancy) become motivating drives depending on the value systems and preferences of health workers. One therefore agrees that the provision of appropriate incentive systems could make the work ...

Article Review

Article 1
Banas, Colin A, Erskine, Alistair R, Sun, Shumei and Retchin, SheldonM. Phase Implementation of Electronic Health Records Through an Office of Clinical Transformation. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2011; 18: 721-725.

Article Synopsis

This article is a case report that delves into the implementation of electronic health records. While electronic health records present various benefits to the health care system such as improved patient outcomes and cost savings, their uptake and diffusion through the healthcare sector has been rather slow and limited. Therefore, this article presents information on the phased implementation of electronic health records by examining a ...

This is as extract from The New York Times. This article is a result of a research on the jobs in the United States. The research compares the contribution of the health sector against the other sectors to the total jobs in the U.S. According to the author of this article, who says she was fascinated by a post in the local dailies about the buffer provided by the health care in the past few precedent years. The article indicates that the health care sector has steadily contributed to the GDP despite the dramatic cutback of the other sectors of the economy. ...

The study entitled “The impact of the AIDS pandemic on health services in Africa: Evidence from Demographic Health Surveys” written by Anne Case and Christina Paxson for the Research Program in Development Studies and Center for Health and Wellbeing of Princeton University in March 2009, is an example of the health studies that are analysed using statistical analyses. This study focused on the impact of the AIDs epidemic on health services provided in African countries. For data resources, the study used Demographic and Health Surveys that were extracted from each of the fourteen countries examined. Data included natal are ( ...

British Journal of Community Nursing, 2013, Volume 18, Number 1, Pages 40 to 42

Summary of Article
The article entitled “A ‘good death’ at home: community nurses helping to make it possible” was written by Elizabeth Adamson and Susanne Cruickshank and published in the British Journal of Community Nursing in 2013. The authors presented relevant concerns regarding the increasing trend of addressing end-of-life choices of patients, particularly opting to die at their respective homes. This trend was allegedly supported by thrusts in government policies which acknowledge adherence to conform to patients’ preferences for addressing end-of-life situations. The authors have emphasized that the role of community nurses were seen as instrumental in attending ...

Impact of Informatics on Health Care in the Nursing Profession

Despite its numerous advantages, the adoption of information technology has lagged behind in the health care sector. In this paper, the various ways via which informatics have or will transform the health care sector will be discussed. Informatics will improve the safety and efficiency of health care in the nursing profession by increasing the accessibility of vital patient information to all stakeholders, increasing the use of evidence-based information, reducing the time spent on documentation, and fostering easy monitoring and evaluation of clinical, fiscal, and financial outcomes.
Although numerous studies have documented that the use of evidence-based information improves ...

Summary of the Four Elements of Financial Management

Healthcare industry is riddled with high operation costs. In most instances, the revenues generated from offering medical services far exceed the revenue received from offering such services. As a result, facilities incur huge losses during their operation periods. Financial management information is very vital for controlling these costs through its four elements. To begin with, financial management begins by measuring the quantitative and qualitative performance of a healthcare facility. In addition to measuring the financial strength of the facility, they also measure the quality of care and the level of patient satisfaction. By using diverse categories of measures, health facilities can ...

Healthcare Class: Comparison and Analysis of Two Critical Articles

Introduction
This paper reviews the two critical articles written on American healthcare system. The author, David Goldhill, has narrated his personal experience of American healthcare system in his article “How American Health Care Killed My Father” (Goldhill 2). Whereas the other article “Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills are Killing Us” written by Steven Brill is essentially a critique on the current US healthcare with much of its emphasis on current US President Obama’s healthcare policies recognized as ‘Obamacare’ (Brill 7).
The complexities of US health care system has raised countless debates and discussion in the American social ...

Berk, ML, Schur, CL, & Cantor, JC. (1995). Ability to obtain health care: recent estimates from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation National Access to Care Survey. Health Affairs 14(3): 139-146.

In Berk et al. (1995), the researchers investigate Americans' ability to access health care. The findings hypothesize that a more concrete definition of health care needs, including supplementary services like dental and mental health care, among others, is needed to find ways to improve access to needed services. The data set examined in this study included findings from the 1994 National Access of Care Survey, which included 75% ...

Abstract

In this paper, I will cover the issues of treating patients with dual diagnosis. Dual diagnosis is a condition when patients develop two disorders, and most healthcare professionals are not able to assist those patients in treating their conditions. A literature review reveals that lack of proper regulations and specialized treatment models are considered the main causes of low recovery rates among patients with comorbid disorders. Other issues include lack of patient motivation, education, compliance with treatments, etc. The available literature mainly criticizes the contemporary situation in healthcare when it comes to treating patients with comorbid disorders, but some approaches ...

Demand and supply of healthcare insurance

Introduction
As supply and demand for most markets tend to work perfectly, that is not the case with the health care sector. The demand for healthcare is unlimited. The supply of physicians does not concur with the market forces. Some specializations do not fit the supply-demand curve. In all cases, specialization is fostered by income. The healthcare system is based on the third party payer system. The payment is neither paid by the patient nor the provider but the health insurance. The health insurance acts as the third party. The payer is not represented anywhere in the supply-demand curve. ...

Information Governance in Healthcare

The electronic health record system (HER) is one of the adopted health information technology. The core attention of the system is to improve the quality of services and to obtain efficiency in healthcare. Most of the healthcare industry adopts and implements the new technology such as the data collection and information and its strategies, advantages, and optimization. In 2014, AHIMA conducted a study that most of the healthcare organizations are beginners in terms of information tools in business knowledge and analysis. These organizations utilize and manage the information gathered for years and they considered the information as the competency and ...

Section Name

Article: An Ergonomics Program for the Health Care Setting

In Bragg's "An Ergonomics Program for the Health Care Setting" (1996), he discusses the basic elements that are required to set up a formal ergonomics program in a health care context. In instances where health care workers are handling patients, the likelihood of experiencing back injuries is great (p. 58). With that in mind, management is required to deal with these types of injuries with health care workers by establishing a formal ergonomics program to provide prevention and care for these stressors. The article itself provides the elements that are required in order ...

Managed Competition

The article is about health reform in the United States. According to the author, one of the failures of the government of barrack Obama is the failure to reform the health care regardless of the fact that he had promised to make changes in the system. There are many people who die in the United States who should not have died. It is argued that most of the people who die are those who have no health insurance cover. The candidate had promised to come up with a method that would ensure that the entire citizen is covered. According to ...

Health

When analyzing the structure of a country’s health care system it is critical to understand the evolution of the system over the years. A country’s health care system is a direct reflection of the county’s political, social, cultural, and economic factors. The United States health care system is made up of non-profit and profit making health care organizations. Although the structure and mode of operation of profit and not for profit organization differ slightly, ultimately their major objective is to provide health services to the society (Barton, 2009). This paper presents an in-depth discussion into the difference between ...

Article 1:

Leininger, M. (1996). Culture care theory, research, and practice. Nursing Science Quarterly,

9(2), 71-78. doi:101177/08943184960090028

Introduction
Nursing theories continue to play a critical role in the delivery of care to diverse populations in the present era. The health care sector is working towards advancing the discipline and professional of nursing by ensuring providers acquire relevant nursing knowledge to deal with present and upcoming health challenges. The author of the article, Madeleine Leininger, uses the culture care theory to show its relevance in helping educate health providers how to transform the practice of nursing through modern practices that accommodate cultural competency.

Synopsis

The outcome ...

The article being reviewed is entitled ‘Health care reform: Revolution or evolution-What did we get from the affordable care act?’ It was written by Dr Len Saputo (2011). This article appeared in Sunday, 29th May, 2011 of the Natural news publication. Natural news forum features topics pertaining to various contemporary health issues.Dr Len Saputo (2011) is a certified internal medicine board practitioner. His practice is recognized as being focused on holistic, person centered care (Saputo, 2011).
Precisely, in the article referenced Dr Len Saputo (2011) expressed his sincere concerns regarding health care in America. To his dismay health care ...

Article Summation

Burns et al., (2014), in their research work, offer a critical appraisal on the uptake of health care services for childless low income adults who have just been enrolled into a public health insurance scheme. Eligibility for Medicaid (the U.S a governments’ insurance program) witnessed an expansion for eligible adults to include adults who fall below the federal poverty level (FPL) of 138%. However, the Supreme Court’s ruling which made this cap an option for states rather than an obligation meant that states could now extend the limit for persons to be covered under Medicaid Insurance. Among these ...

The Past Health Care Initiative

In order to solve the problems regarding the increasing cost on health care, different organizations in the United States developed a new integrated system wherein the components such as the system’s organization, the financing division, and healthcare processes are all assimilated into one governing system. The organizations believed that this new system, which is coined ‘managed care,’ will provide an adequate healthcare to all patients while preserving the resources (Shortell, Gillies, & Anderson, 1994).

Similarity and Difference

However, the article was written prior to the establishment of the Clinton health care initiatives, thus, there were changes that happened when the new initiative ...

The institutional affiliation

Nurses' Experiences of Ethical Preparedness for Mass Health Emergencies and Healthcare Disasters: A Systematic Review of Qualitative Evidence
Healthcare ethics has been of higher importance as long as healthcare practice has existed. It is first necessary to explain that healthcare ethics is regarded as moral principles that are commonly considered as allowable and reasonable by the society. However, in spite of a universally stable set of ethical standards that direct the healthcare industry, there are many cases of these values on the verge of being violated. For instance, it is extremely possible that a medical worker will face an ...

Introduction

Provision of excellent health care services should be the key objective for any professional health practitioner. According to health policies and regulations, health care practitioners are required or expected to act within the Hippocratic Oath as stipulated by the governing policies and principles. One of the core principles or standard which a health practitioner is expected to uphold is to ensure maximum life protection is offered or created to the involved clients. Lack of meeting or adhering to such principles can be termed to be negligence of one’s duty. Consequently, the aftermath associated with negligence of duty can be ...

People with learning disabilities who are within the age of 18-24 are said to be in danger to fill the gaps between the child and the adult services due to they are not yet socially developed and still incapable of coping alone. (Learning Disability Practice, 2010) They might feel abandoned which may lead to the worsening their condition. It has been reported that the suggested services that can meet the needs of caring these young people include flexibility approach, availability of care service, be innovative, firm, work collaboratively and holistically, develop life skills, encourage positive futures, provide enough time, ...

Introduction to Research Article

Before embarking on the search process, it was important to evaluate the area of interest for research, which would help towards development of keywords that would be utilized in the research process. The area of interest for this article review was biomedical informatics, which is an area of health care technology highlighted within this research article. The database used in this particular search was EBSCOHOST to find an article that would suit the topical area for the research process. The search strategy utilized in this process involved having to consider the validity of the research information published as a ...

Program Objectives

The primary objective of the study is to assess the effectiveness of the state-funded clinical school-based health centers (SBHCs) and their influence on the students’ health, school attendance and the costs students spend for the health care. In general, the program is aimed at comparing health outcomes and health care costs of the students who have the abovementioned centers in their schools with those students who don’t.

Research Design Utilized for the Evaluation

Parents of 1134 students allowed their children’s participation. Moreover, 1027 parents agreed to take part in the survey. Those parents who agreed to take part in the evaluation received a ...

Moran, Katherine J., and Rosanne Burson. “Understanding the Patient-Centered Medical Home”. Home Healthcare Nurse 32.8 (2014): 476-481. Web.
The populations of every country in the world are continuing to grow and in developed countries, the improved quality of living and superior health care available has extended life expectancies far beyond that of the past. A consequence of these developments is a growing number of senior adults requiring medical care in a home setting. According to a study by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), almost 92 percent of the participants stated they wanted to remain in their homes as ...

Healthcare ethics is sometimes also referred to as medical ethics or bioethics and simply defined, is a set of moral principles, beliefs, and values that guide medical practitioners in making important choices about giving medical care. Four core principles that define ethical responsibilities and within which medical professionals must act in the United States are: Autonomy which demands that the professional honors the patients’ right to decide on their own about the medical care to be given, Beneficence which on the other hand tasks the practitioner with the duty to assist the patients to enhance their own good, Nonmaleficence ...

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Corresponding Address and email)

In a paper with the title “The Culture of Medicine and Racial, Ethnic, and Class Disparities in Healthcare” by Good, Good, and Becker on page 594, researchers noted the disparities in healthcare. One of the most surprising things is that there are many kinds of disparities in the healthcare, when patients actually require more care without discrimination. Another thing that surprised me was that the healthcare workers have to perform their work as immediately as possible, especially in the emergency department, and in doing this thing, they often have to ignore the interaction with patients. Moreover, ...

The recent shift in the healthcare system, which implied the reduction of the specialized facilities in dealing with mentally disabled patients, has increased the incidents numbers that police forces to handle. This situation has led to the need for understanding the preparedness of the police officers to answer the deviant behavior of mentally disordered individuals involved in public offenses or criminal action. Four articles will be reviewed for developing an integrative literature review on this topic, which will be critically synthesized for reaching solutions for dealing with the current situation. Hollander, Lee, Tahtalian Young and Kulkarni’s article “Challenges ...

Collaboration and Care Coordination in Healthcare: An Analysis Overview

The structure of a bureaucratic healthcare organization can garner improvements in partnerships leading to increased care quality as a result of key collaboration efforts, and coordination. The data indicates that a 30 percent ratio of traditional Medicare payments will gradually tie to value, or quality models, like accountable care organizations. Bundled payments are anticipated as optional choices in this scenario by the end of 2016, as well. Secondly, 50 percent of payments will tie to these models by 2018 especially considering that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has a goal of attaching 90 percent of all traditional Medicare payments to ...

Article Analysis: Racial/Ethnic Differences in Access to Substance Abuse Treatment

Article Analysis: Racial/Ethnic Differences in Access to Substance Abuse Treatment
Racial and ethnic discrepancies exist in the health care system of United States of America for a long time. African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans are able to access American health care system but they are not able to avail all services and benefits in the same ways as white Americans avail. Racial and ethnic minority groups face various problems in accessing crucial health care services in the United States of America. This disparity negatively affects the health of racial and ethnic minority groups.
Lo & Cheng (2011) in their ...

Culture can be termed as a pattern of customs, ideas, and behaviors that are shared by a particular group of people in a given society (Jeffreys, 2015). Culture has vast influence on health. It affects beliefs about a certain disease, perceptions of health, health promotion approaches, how to express pain and illness, where and how patients seek medical help and the type of treatment that patients prefer.
In western industrialized societies like the United States, a disease is as result of natural scientific phenomena and medical treatments are considered as the best method to treat the disease (Jeffreys, 2015). ...

1. State the purpose of the study and identify the problem.
The paper “Tragedy into Policy: A Quantitative Study of Nurses’ Attitudes Toward Patient Advocacy Activities” by Lisa M. Black, presents research that was done on the attitudes of healthcare workers in Nevada regarding patient safety. The need to provide protection to patients in such settings is important as they are often profoundly affected by the prevailing beliefs and values that their caretakers have towards them. These cultural norms present an underlying problem when considering the results of poor patient care in a medical environment. The author’s intent ...

This is a review on the article titled Factors Affecting the Demand for Healthcare Services in the Philippines authored by Ching in 1992. Ching (1992) asserts that health care demand is an intricate subject because the various factors involved vary from person to person. Some of the predominantly noticeable factors predisposing populations to increased or decreased demand for health care services include socio-economic status (Johnson et al., 2006), physician supply, policies and beliefs of a nation (Niessen, Grijseels & Rutten, 2000), risk behaviors of a population, and finally, health status.
Some of the strengths of this article include a succinctly ...

Information

The necessity and importance of ICD in healthcare registries cannot be overemphasized. The implementation of the ICD-10_CM is multifaceted in terms of its functionality. For instance, when established, the code can be employed both for primary and secondary purposes. A registry is defined as a system that requires an organized set of data to reflect its purpose effectively. Healthcare facilities depend on the registries to determine the certain conditions, diseases and exposures that are manifest in certain populations. The code is necessary because it aids to ensure that the correct statistics are obtained in the appropriate alignment of ...

The American hospital system is in a state of crisis. On the one hand there is competition to increase the profits that hospitals generate. On the other hand there is a concerted effort to improve the quality of care that is delivered by them. In some sense, these are competing values insofar as quality healthcare is an expensive proposition. Medical error accounts for a large portion of the failure in quality as well as the perceived lack of quality in care. In some respects, medical error is unavoidable. Physicians are humans and they will make mistakes. Furthermore, many hospitals are also teaching ...