Essays on Lightfoot

Service Life Cycle

The service lifecycle Products and services go through life cycles that are determined by the marketability of the product. The most common stages that services and products go through during its lifetime are the introduction, growth, maturity, decline or innovation. The strategy formulated will incorporate these stages. The introduction phase is largely a stage of experimentation to ascertain the product that is well received in the market (Kowalkowski et al. 2016). The growth stage will be a stage where there is an increment in sales due to the increased demand for the product. At this stage the firm will ...

Abstract

The current government has consistently been trying to reduce the costs of healthcare and at the same time improve its quality. This paper focuses on the current state of healthcare through an extensive research on the population. The research uses a cross sectional design to collect data and come up with relevant conclusions. The research project aimed at using a homogenous population to come up with accurate results. Such a population involves participants who have the same knowledge about the subject. Such participants are easily obtained through a referral process where one participant refers another. A total of 50 ...

Background to study

Various factors contribute to increased health care costs, which include inefficient use of medical advancement, improper payment system, the high cost of health care services, and failure to align the health care objectives of the facilities with those of national government. The rationale behind improving the sector is that it provides diverse opportunities for everyone to engage in healthy lifestyles. Scholars such as Frank-Lightfoot & Davis (2016) have linked effective control of the health care costs with better health outcomes. For instance, in the U.S, the health care spending has increased rapidly over the past century, yet the quality of ...