HSCI 710 Healthcare Delivery Service

This course provides an understanding of the healthcare delivery system and its role to support health and wellness by providing cost-effective, quality care. Student will explore the healthcare delivery systems, as it currently exists, its challenges, and efforts to improve its efficiency.

Textbook readings and lecture presentations

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Course Requirements Checklist

After reading the Syllabus and Student Expectations, the student will complete the related checklist found in Module 1: Week 1.

Essay

In this assignment, you will have an opportunity to objectively evaluate one problem in the healthcare system. While we all have our own experiences and personal options, as professionals, it is important that we evaluate  objective information that considers all aspects of an issue. Your evaluation should reflect an unbiased perspective that seeks to comprehensively evaluate a problem. Please select one specific problem to address the required content outline. 

Essay

Select one current policy, either US or from your country of interest. Provide a brief policy analysis using the required content outline. Your peer reviewed literature review should reflect an unbiased perspective that addresses political and economic drivers of policy.

Essay: Vulnerable Populations Assignment

Identify a vulnerable population in the United States, fully describe the population in terms of person and geography including social determinants of health. Describe the challenges they face in accessing health care, evaluate 2 current solutions and propose 2 potential solutions to this problem. In your analysis include a Biblical perspective on health disparities. Please review carefully the “Instructions for Vulnerable Populations” document.

Essay

Select one natural or man-made natural disaster in the last 10 years, from any country. Using the content outline, fully explain the disaster as related to social determinants of health. Describe the effects on the population and suggest evidence based solutions. You should ensure that enough peer reviewed literature exists to write a paper that meets this assignment’s requirement

Essay: Comparative Analysis Assignment

Compare the U.S. health care system with at least 2 other systems and describe similarities and differences, across financing systems, cost, and quality. Please review carefully the “Instructions for Comparative Analysis” document.

Essay

In this assignment, you will be asked to comprehensively and objectively identify one group that experiences adverse outcomes or experiences vulnerability due to social determinants of health. Using the content outline you will be asked to examine quality (as you specifically define) to one specified group. You are required to identify the group that experience inequities in quality.

Essay

In this assignment, you are asked to examine evidence based management. And fully discuss how evidence based management can be used to promote organizational access. You may include additional information about how evidence based management can promote patient or customer success as well. Fully evaluate the prompt using the content outline.

Essay: Health Innovations Assignment

Discuss how innovations in health information technology are generating both positive and negative effects in the delivery of health care. Please choose one health information technology choose and select at least 3 benefits and 3 potential negative effects (and potential solutions to mitigate ill effects) in the delivery of healthcare. Please review carefully the “Instructions for Health Innovations” document.