Essays on Effectiveness AND Efficiency

Current Health Policy Debate regarding the Affordable Care Act

Introduction The health policy debate regarding ObamaCare focuses on the interest of average U.S citizens. The Affordable Care Act offers protection and benefits to all United States’ citizens regardless of their economic status and social lifestyle. The ACA seeks to reduce the insurance premiums to ensure the majority of average American families are covered. The law seeks to ensure 30 million of 44 million Americans without insurance get access to health coverage (ObamaCare, 2015). The government through the health insurance marketplaces, employers and Medicaid would ensure more Americans obtains health insurance coverage. The health law focuses on low-income Americans ...

As medical practices merge, it is certain that systems will change. As a result of the merger, the organization will want to operate as a combined system and to do this, plans have to be developed to change some or all of the systems. In the plan, it is important to consider the role of technologies vis-à-vis the need to promote patient safety and enhance the quality of patient care. In addition, it is also vital to consider implementing health information systems that meet the regulatory requirements as set by the federal government. When it comes to the ...

Business Leadership

Introduction The world environment is ever changing and so is all the other aspects touching the organization. Leadership is one of the organizational aspects that keep on changing to match the changes in the business environment. The tactics used by the 20th-century leaders differ significantly with those used in the 21st century. Besides, the challenges facing leadership also change with the changes in the business environment implying that the challenges of the past are different from those in the current. As a result, this paper focuses on comparing and contrasting the 20th and 21st leader roles as well as ...

Final Assignment

Final Assignment

Question 1: 10 Tips for Changing Health Behavior in Older Adults (Haber, 2013)

One of the challenges regarding this tip is the lack of motivation by the older adult to adopt the new behavior. Overcoming this challenge will require enhanced understanding of the positive implications or outputs of the new behavior, thus, motivation to adopt the new behavior by the target audience. For example, in case of weight loss behavior, I would consider highlighting diseases, which associate with obesity to motivate the older adults on the need to overcome or prevent such diseases.

Modest

One of the challenges regarding this tip is overstating ambitious goals, which might be beyond capabilities of ...