Assignment: Public Health
Watch the following 2 Frontline PBS Videos: The movie identified seven issues affecting our current healthcare system:
o "Sick Around the World"
o "SICK AROUND AMERICA"
Seven issues affecting our current healthcare system:
a. Paying more, getting less
b. Treating the whole person
c. Preventing Disease
d. Overmedication
e. Overtreatment
f. An entrenched system
g. Reimbursement
Create a thoughtful and supported post addressing the points below. Let us all do our best to create thoughtful discussions and an open forum for all opinions.
Pick 4 of the issues listed above and answer the following questions:
a. How are these issues affecting our current system (spending/debt, Medicare, ACA, population health)?
b. Who is responsible for these issues and correcting them?
c. How can these issues be improved whether at a local/state (community health department), national (USDHHS), or global level (WHO)?
d. Which of these issues fall under the Strategic Goals of the USDHHS and Healthy People 2020?
e. What can we do as nurses?
Format your assignment according to the give formatting requirements:
a. The answer must be double spaced, typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
b. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the course title, the student's name, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
c. Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.