Category: Public Health

Topic: Does a positive attitude affect cancer outcomes?
A topic that is highly debated is whether a positive attitude can influence cancer outcomes? Write a 1-2 page, double-spaced paper in APALinks to an external site. format. Your paper should consist of the following:
Introduction to the topic.
Summary (minimum 3-4 sentences) of each article in your own words, specifically indicating whether the article supports or refutes the impacts of a positive outlook on cancer outcomes.
Short discussion of your opinion (based upon what you have read) about whether a positive attitude influences outcomes in cancer patients.
Conclusion
is to identify two sources of information about the potential impacts of a positive attitude on cancer treatment or survival.One source should be informal (i.e. website, fact sheet, news report, YouTube video)
One source must be a formal, peer-reviewed journal article. Click here for a description of a peer-reviewed journal article. You can search for peer-reviewed journal articles using PubMedLinks to an external site. or Google Scholar.Links to an external site

Student Discussion Assignment
Briefly identify, list, and describe the action of at least two of the following muscle types:
superficial (i.e., two anterior and two posterior) muscles
head and neck
anterolateral neck and throat
thorax and shoulder
abdominal wall
Briefly identify and list antagonists of the major prime movers associated with each muscle described above.
Write your responses in a minimum of 250 words in APA format.
As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format. Support your work, using your course lectures and textbook readings. Helpful APA guides and resources are available in the South University Online Library. Below are guides that are located in the library and can be accessed and downloaded via the South University Online Citation Resources: APA Style page. The American Psychological Association website also provides detailed guidance on formatting, citations, and references at APA Style.

The paper should be between 1-2 pages. I will provide you a summary of hazardous situations and their associated risk from our previous class assignments. Evaluate the risks and select your top three (3) hazardous situations.
Develop a mechanism for making decisions for Non-conformance, CAPA, Recalls, and Holds and provide your rationale for the recommendation (a decision tree or similar).
Using the decision mechanism, determine the action needed for your top three hazardous situations with a rationale
.Be prepared to discuss and defend the top 3 priorities through discussion(not included in the 1-2 PAGE,DISCUSSION IS SPERATE)
For the next assignment (Making Risk Decisions, Here are the events that you need to evaluate in your decision tree/making risk decision assignment.
You could create a single decision tree that works for None/Non-Conformance/Hold/Recall/CAPA…or a decision tree for each evaluation.
You should not create a decision tree for each situation…the point of this assignment is to create a management tools (decision tree) that could be use on any event.
It may be easier to start with figuring out the decision you would make for each situation in the Excel table…and then create the decision tree.
I have seen this assignment being answered in only a few pages …Background on considerations for the decision tree; the decision tree (indicating the out come for all events); the table for reference; and selecting the 3 to focus on with the action plant / rationale.

Payments for Health Services Providers (125 points)
Insurance is based on pooling of losses, payment for random losses, risk transfer, and indemnification. As a result, insurers use several different approaches to mitigate their risk and set premium rates, including:
the fee-for-service method
the cost-plus approach
population health – capitation
For your assignment, evaluate two global payment systems within healthcare and address each of the following items:
Define the structure of the payment systems.
Identify risk to loss of revenue in each system.
Describe advantages and disadvantages of each system.
Identify how pay for performance can be added to each payment system.
Requirements:
Your paper should be 6 pages in length, not including the title and reference pages.
You must include a minimum of 6 credible sources. Your paper must follow APA 7th edition requirements, as appropriate.
You are strongly encouraged to submit all assignments to the Turnitin Originality Check prior to submitting them to your instructor for grading. If you are unsure how to submit an assignment to the Originality Check tool,

The three main forms of primary research are qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research methodologies. Provide an overview of each of the forms and give an example of when it would be appropriate to use each method.

You must answer all questions for each article. The length of each article reflection reviewed must be 2‐3 pages (Times New Roman 12 font, double ‐spaced, APA style). Before answering the questions, please reference the article in APA format at the top of page one.
Questions to be answered:
1. What are the major questions raised by the author(s) of the article?
2. What are the underlying assumptions or theoretical unpinning of this article?
3. What methodology was used? (Design, data source(s), analytic approach)
4. What are the main conclusions reached by the author(s)?
5. What theoretical or methodological contribution does the author’s work make to the field of health disparities or health equity?
6. In what specific ways is the author’s argument intellectually unsatisfying, inconsistent, or incomplete?
7. Are the proposed solutions offered in this article, if any, feasible or practical in real-world terms? Explain why or why not?
8. What additional questions does this work raise and how might you go about investigating those?
Assignment Rubric – HLT 204 Student Assigned Reading Rubric.docx

Create an Annotated Bibliography (125 Points)
This Critical Thinking assignment builds on previous assignments.
Create an Annotated Bibliography, writing a two-to-three-paragraph appraisal of each article from the 10 references you gathered for the Module 3 Critical Thinking assignment (find the file attached). There should be a title page and then these sources should be listed according to APA 7th edition guidelines excluding the reference page. Each individual annotation should be followed by the corresponding appraisal. Look for relevant literature on a topic of interest to you paying attention to the methods of collecting and analyzing data and ethical research practices.
This is an opportunity to practice synthesizing the author’s words. Do not use quotes; rather, put the author’s ideas into your own words. Take as many pages as needed to provide summaries for each of your articles.
Please use the website(s) below to help get you started. Cornell University: How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography Purdue OWL: Annotated Bibliography Sample Please note: Do not confuse an annotated bibliography with an abstract, summary, or a book review. They are vastly different. For this assignment, abstracts, summaries, and book reviews are not acceptable submissions. Follow APA and Saudi Electronic University writing standards.
Review the grading rubric to see how you will be graded for this assignment.
You are strongly encouraged to submit all assignments for review using the Plagiarism Originality Check tool prior to submitting them to your instructor for grading.
please note that these critical thinking assignments are all connected to each other, each one builds on the previous work, please find the requirements for the previous assignment below, and find the your previous answer to it attached Critical Thinking Assignment: Selecting Sources (125 points)
Important! This is the first of several Critical Thinking assignments that will build the foundation for a research paper due in Module 10.
In research, you should select research articles that are peer-reviewed and, in most instances, are not more than five years old. When searching in the Saudi Digital Library, you can limit the results by publication date and peer-reviewed journals so that you get the most recent, credible research on the topic (see the image below). You can then look for those results that allow you to access the full text.
Find 10 peer-reviewed articles to research one of the following topics of interest to you: Diabetic foot disease
Ethical decision-making in healthcare
Patient safety culture
Clinical practice guidelines Big data analytics in healthcare
Antibiotic use in healthcare Communicable diseases
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Non-communicable diseases
Mental health
Vaccines
This will be the topic that you will write about in the final research paper.
At least five articles should be empirical studies. Look for the theory that the study uses to identify the hypothesis that is formulated. See the following article on theory in healthcare.
Aldahmash, A. M., Ahmed, Z., Qadri, F. R., Thapa, S., & AlMuammar, A. M. (2019). Implementing a connected health intervention for remote patient monitoring in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan: Explaining ‘the what’ and ‘the how’. Globalization and Health, 15(1), 20–20. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12992-019-0462-1
Write a two-page overview of your topic and the reasons for selecting each of the references. Be aware that you may find research articles that could be subtopics that may add interest to the main topic. Submit all ten references and the two-page overview with a title page.
Follow APA and Saudi Electronic University writing standards.
Review the grading rubric to see how you will be graded for this assignment.
You are strongly encouraged to submit all assignments to the TurnItIn Originality Check prior to submitting them to your instructor for grading

Conflict of Interest in Policymaking
The importance of stakeholder involvement in the formulation and use of guidelines has gained widespread acceptance. There is disagreement over the best way to implement the need for people who may be impacted by guidelines’ recommendations to be involved in their development, despite the fact that frameworks for generating guidelines articulate this need. Furthermore, there is a dearth of instructions on how to fairly and effectively involve various stakeholders (Petkovic, 2020). However, conflict of interest (COI) discussions are becoming more common because multi-stakeholder strategies are essential to attempts to address global health concerns. Recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) created a suggested tool to assist member governments in managing and preventing COI (Ralston, 2021). In this discussion, we will list examples and discuss what might influence stakeholders to engage in policymaking activities that could pose a conflict of interest.
First example: COI in nutrition policy According to the study by Ralston (2021), the growing importance of multi-stakeholder approaches in global health has brought to light possible conflicts between non-state partners’ interests and public health objectives. In non-communicable disease (NCD) policy, the significance of such conflicts of interest (COI) is an issue of particular salience. In conclusion, the WHO tool has demonstrated how differing viewpoints on COI are essential to comprehending more general discussions on nutrition policy and global health governance.
The study concluded that a deeper knowledge of how COI might be conceptualized and managed in the face of intense debate regarding policy involvement with players from the private sector is necessary for effective health governance. This calls for more thorough conceptual and empirical research in addition to continual innovation in governance instruments (Ralston, 2021).
Second example: “sunshine-like” legislation “Let a little bit of sunshine into this world of financial relationships; it is, after all, the best disinfectant,” said US Senator Grassley to the Senate in 2007 when he first introduced the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, which would require public disclosure of payments to physicians from pharmaceutical and medical device companies. These activities have come up as a result of growing concern over the conflicts of interest that arise from health-related industries’ influence over the decisions made by health professionals. The fact that payments from pharmaceutical companies to doctors have been linked to, among other things, increased prescribing frequency and cost, increased awareness of, preference for, and rapid prescribing of new drugs, decreased prescribing of generic drugs, and formulary addition requests for promoted drugs has drawn particular attention to these payments (Grundy, 2018).
The study concluded that transparency reports have given healthcare practitioners a unique opportunity to comprehend the influence that the medical business has over healthcare decisions. Informed policy responses that address this influence should be developed by policymakers based on these observations as a means of addressing conflicts of interest (Grundy, 2018).
However, high-income nations and the business sector rejected several affordable policy alternatives for addressing NCDs, such as taxing products that affect one’s health, and these choices were underrepresented in the Declaration. Multi-stakeholder governance for NCDs must take into account power and influence inequalities among constituents as well as biases and conflicts in positioning in order to achieve strong political pledges and action on NCDs since this might influence stakeholders to engage in policymaking activities that could pose a conflict of interest (Suzuki, 2022).
The World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines’ declaration of interests (DOI), management of conflicts of interest (COI), and funders were all reviewed. The majority of WHO recommendations listed their funding sources as well as the DOI and COI of external contributors in their guidelines. However, there is room for improvement, particularly in the administration of COI and the reporting of funders and their participation. This might also influence stakeholders to engage in policymaking activities that could pose a conflict of interest (Wang, 2018).
In summary, research and reviews will add to the literature by highlighting the current guidelines, obstacles and enablers, potential effects, and potential conflicts of interest related to the involvement of stakeholders from numerous stakeholder groups in the creation and implementation of guidelines (Petkovic, 2020).
References
Grundy, Q. (2018). Decoding disclosure: Comparing conflict of interest policy among the United States, France, and Australia. Sciencedirect. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/…
Petkovic, J. (2020). Protocol for the development of guidance for stakeholder engagement in health and healthcare guideline development and implementation – Systematic Reviews. BioMedCentral. https://systematicreviewsjournal.biomedcentral.com…
Ralston, R. (2021). Towards Preventing and Managing Conflict of Interest in Nutrition Policy? An Analysis of Submissions to a Consultation on a publish WHO Tool. NCBI. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC90561…
Suzuki, M. (2022). Competing Frames in Global Health Governance: An Analysis of Stakeholder Influence on the Political Declaration on Non-communicable Diseases. http://www.ijhpm.com/article_4001.html
Wang, X. (2018). Reporting of declarations and conflicts of interest in WHO guidelines can be further improved. Sciencedirect. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/…
this is was qoustion There are a number of stakeholders in healthcare, many of whom are actively involved in policymaking activities. A common compliance-related concern involves a conflict of interest between a stakeholder and the organization. A conflict of interest often involves the inability of a stakeholder to perform their duties appropriately because it could possibly betray their interests to the organization. For instance, interest groups may attempt to influence public policy in their favor, often by lobbying members of the government. In this case, the influence of interest groups on policymaking is not necessarily an illegal activity; rather, it is viewed more as a significant part of the decision-making process. Based on what you learned this week, address the following requirements:
Discuss two examples of conflicts of interest in policymaking.
What might influence stakeholders to engage in policymaking activities that could pose a conflict of interest?

Healthcare administration is a complicated and fast expanding industry that necessitates a thorough awareness of the difficulties confronting the US healthcare system, as well as creative solutions to these challenges. Throughout the semester, you’ve reviewed various issues of our current system. You should utilize all the resources from the course and write a 2-3 pages essay.
In your essay, you must answer the following questions:
What are the key issues confronting the US healthcare system, and how can health administrators address them? – talk about the “what counts” film, “Healthcare Divide” documentary and “To err is human”
What are the best methods for improving healthcare quality and safety, and how can health administrators achieve these goals?
What effect do healthcare rules and regulations have on healthcare delivery, and how can health administrators traverse this perilous terrain?
What is the influence of developing technology on healthcare delivery, such as artificial intelligence and precision medicine, and how can health administrators negotiate these changes?
In the face of developing healthcare financing and payment paradigms, how can health administrators manage financial resources and optimize revenue?
To support your analysis and conclusions, you should cite relevant research and case studies in your essay.

Implementing Lean Management System and Lean Six Sigma in Healthcare Settings (125 points)
You are the chairperson of the hospital’s quality improvement committee. The committee is planning to introduce Lean Management Systems (LMS) and Lean Six Sigma (LSS) to the organization as a newly adopted framework to increase the quality and efficiencies of healthcare delivery, as outlined in the health sector transformation program of Saudi Vision 2030.
For this assignment, you will create a presentation for staff that achieves the following:
Provide a brief history of CQI in healthcare and an introduction to LMS and LSS. Include how this aligns with the aims of the Saudi Vision 2030 health sector transformation program. Analyze the benefits of using LMS and LSS as it applies to improving patient outcomes.
Describe the application of LMS and LSS to healthcare. Include examples of recent achievements of healthcare systems in Saudi Arabia that have implemented LMS and LSS. Select a department to pilot the implementation of LMS and LSS. Determine what information you need from the staff to make the implementation of LMS and LSS successful. Provide two examples of a strategy to collect this information. Your PowerPoint should meet the following requirements:
Be 10-12 slides in length, not including the title or reference slides.
Be formatted according to Saudi Electronic University and APA writing guidelines. Provide support for your statements with citations from a minimum of six scholarly articles. These citations should be listed in the Notes section of the slide in which they appear. Two of these sources may be from the class readings, textbook, or lectures, but four must be external.
Each slide must provide detailed speaker’s notes to support the slide content. These should be a minimum of 100 words long (per slide) and must be a part of the presentation. The presentation cannot be submitted in PDF format, which does not make notes visible to the instructor. Notes must draw from and cite relevant reference materials.