Category: Public Health

How have public health occupations in Saudi Arabia changed over the last 50 years?
How will public health occupations look in the next 20 years in Saudi Arabia? What do you think will drive the changes and why?
Please address the topic below:
Background facts and important milestones that mark the evolution of public health occupations in the Kingdom
Types of occupations that play a critical role in public health (at least 2)
The future public health needs (10-20 years from now) of Saudi Arabia and what public health occupations will be in demand
Your recommendations to ensure that the Kingdom’s health force is equipped to meet these demands
Your paper should meet the following structural requirements:
Five to six pages in length, not including the cover sheet and reference page.
Formatted according to APA 7th edition
Provide support for your statements with in-text citations from a minimum of six scholarly articles.

Selecting Tools and Data Sources in CQI (125 points)
You are the manager of the surgical services department at the local hospital. You have determined that a process requirement is not aligned with process performance and that a performance improvement project is needed. Apply what you have learned in this module to the development of your quality improvement project.
For this critical thinking assignment, you will write a paper that includes the following:
Describe the work setting and the problem that you have identified. Explain why this improvement is needed and what impact it has on the healthcare quality. Discuss what key stakeholders will benefit from this improvement.
Determine the data sources that will be used. Explain why you selected these data sources. Describe the strengths and weaknesses of these data sources that should be considered. Discuss sampling considerations in your chosen data collection approach.
Discuss variations in measurement that may occur. Distinguish between common and special cause variation and how it applies to your quality improvement project.
Describe the tool(s) selected. Briefly describe the tool(s) and explain why you selected it. Describe the strengths and weaknesses of the selected tool(s) and provide an alternative tool that one may consider using and explain why it is appropriate.
Enter your data points into the selected tool and include it in your paper. Provide an analysis of the data and what the results mean in relation to the process you are working to improve in your surgical services department.
Requirements:
Your paper should be four to five pages in length, not including the title and reference pages.
You must include a minimum of four credible sources. Use the Saudi Electronic Digital Library to find your resources.
Your paper must follow Saudi Electronic University academic writing standards and APA style guidelines, 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, review the Turnitin Originality Check Student Guide.

Assignment: Prepare a two-page outline of what will be contained in your final project. Provide the references you plan to use (at least 10).
Please use this link to prepare the outline: https://www.umgc.edu/current-students/learning-res…
Here is the instructions on the paper the outline is needed for:
Prepare your final Disaster Response After Action Report All disasters will impact healthcare operations at some level. Therefore, from the lens of a Healthcare Administrator CEO / COO overseeing the operations of the healthcare enterprise, located in the region or location of the natural or man-made disaster with the advantage of a retrospective view of the disaster response, in at least 25 pages, determine what went well, what were the challenges, and how could the response have been improved. Your sections will be separated as follows:
1. Cover Page
2. Abstract
3. Table of Contents
4. Introduction
5. Background: Pick one disaster to research – Hurricane Sandy: New Jersey
6. Outline of a Disaster Response Plan for the chosen event (based on the original plan) 7. Outline for a Continuity of Operations (COOP) Plan (expand on #6 based on the changing environment of the disaster). Make sure to describe the strategic approach to leadership and application of managerial functions.
8. Disaster Response After Action Report: lessons learned (Make sure to describe the strategic approach to leadership and application of managerial functions).
9. Reference Page
Remember, that for your project, you are going back in time to determine how a disaster response could have been improved upon. Your proposed adjustments need to be evidence-supported, financially sustainable, and practical. Make certain that your assignment is in the APA 7th edition format with a cover page, separating your sections by the appropriate APA Level Headings. Also, make sure you include a reference page and at least five references. You will also need at least 10 references.

For this discussion, we are examining public and private healthcare facilities. Locate two different facilities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia – one private and one public. Examine the difference and similarities you see in the different facilities. Explain how the law impacts how these two facilities operate?
Embed course material concepts, principles, and theories (which require supporting citations) in your initial response along with at least one scholarly, peer-reviewed journal article. Keep in mind that these scholarly references can be found in the Saudi Digital Library by conducting an advanced search specific to scholarly references. Use Saudi Electronic University academic writing standards and APA style guidelines.

Module 4 – Who is Poor? – Week 5
Week 5 Overview
This week we will begin to understand some of the demographics of poverty and how it affects different groups within society.
After completing this module, students should be able to:
Describe the effects of social stratification on various categories of people who are poor
Identify social processes of inequality that affect poverty
Challenge preconceived ideas about the categories of people who are more or less likely to be poor
Instructions
1: Watch the Who is Poor? PowerPoint lecture https://memphis.instructuremedia.com/lti-app/embed…
2: Read Mick articles: Thompson, Bauer & Ramirez, Feeding America, Potts, Sanders and Livingston
3: Upload Homework Assignment 4
This is the Dropbox folder for your fourth homework assignment from the Mick textbook. You should have answered ONE of the Analyze questions for EACH of the six assigned articles: Thompson, Bauer & Ramirez, Feeding America, Potts, Sanders and Livingston. Be sure that you have followed the example and clearly listed the question you are answering and which article it corresponds to. Your response to each question should contain no fewer than five complete, grammatically-correct sentences to be accepted for credit.
:Review the PowerPoint of Discussion questions for the week’s articles
Download PovertyLecture4WhoIsPoor.pptx
Download 2019 Memphis Poverty Fact Sheet.pdf
Download Sociology of Poverty Discussion PPT Week 6.pptx
5:Post in at least two of the Discussions for the week and reply to some of your classmates
Week 5 – Respond to 2 articles
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For this Discussion, respond to one of the prompts from the Discussion PPT for two of this week’s articles for a total of two responses of a minimum of five sentences each. State the name of the article’s author(s) and copy/paste in the prompt from the Discussion PPT that you want to respond to. Then, type your response beneath it. You may put both in one reply or you may make two replies if you prefer. Just be very clear which content answers which prompt and what article that prompt is from. There is sometimes overlap with the homework, so be sure to answer different questions. Each prompt’s response will count for five points.
Remember, your posts must include well-thought-out answers to the posted questions as well as a familiarity with the assigned material. Posts should use correct grammar and spelling and students should refrain from using “text-speak” in the course. Your post should contain no fewer than five complete sentences in answer to the prompt to be accepted for credit. A sentence that states which prompt you are responding to will not count as one of the five sentences in response. Posts that do not meet these requirements will earn zero points.

Congratulations! You have completed your data collection and performed the needed statistics to analyze your results.
For your signature assignment, you will take these results and put them into a written report, similar to what you would write in your research methods course. However, this paper will focus on the results and discussion of your findings. For this paper, include the following:
Your paper should have the following sections: Introduction, methodology, analysis, results and conclusions.
State the hypothesis you tested. This includes the research question and the null and alternative hypotheses.
Describe the variables you used including open-ended questions where participants provided their opinions.
Discuss the survey you used to collect your data. Did you run into any issues? Did you have to change anything? Include that survey as an appendix.
Analyze your results. Include a summary of the open-ended questions. What statistical test did you use? Why? What did you find? Did you calculate the results correctly?
Include at least one table or figure we discussed in class for your statistics.
Interpret your results. What do your results mean as it relates to public health policies and practice? This is the discussion portion of your paper.
Finally, was your null hypothesis rejected, or did you fail to reject it? What are the implications of your findings as they pertain to public health policies and practices? Include sources that support your implications. This is your general conclusion on your findings.
Your paper should be between four and six pages in length (not including the cover page, references, and appendix).
Use current APA Style and cite your sources. Your sources should be integrated into the paragraphs. Use internal citations pointing to evidence in the literature and supporting your ideas. You will need to include a reference page listing those sources.

Trust and transparency are important for the effective management and leadership of health care organizations. What are the personal, organisational and systems challenges leaders face in achieving these two attributes?
the paper should discuss the importance of trust and transparency to effective governance, strategic decision making, staff engagement and organisational reputation.
the paper will include referenced definitions of all key concepts discussed and the discussion about the importance of trust and transparency must be supported with reference to relevant academic literature. As this is about leadership in health it is expected that the discussion and any specific examples on the health context.
Barr, J., & Dowding, L. (2019). Leadership in Health Care (4th ed.). London: Sage Publications Ltd.
Turner, P. (2019). Leadership in healthcare delivering organisational transformation and operational excellence. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan
Manion, Jo. (2011) From management to leadership: strategies for transforming health care, 3rd ed. San Fransisco: John Wiley & Sons,
West, M., Armit, K., Loewenthal, L., Eckert, R., West, T., & Lee, A. (2015). Leadership and leadership development in health care: The evidence base. London: Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management. Retrieved from https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/publications/leadership-and-leadership-development-health-care
Harris, J. (Ed.). (2006). Managing health services: Concepts and practice (2nd ed.).
Day, G. E., & Leggat, S. G. (Eds.). (2015). Leading and managing health services: An Australian perspective. Victoria, Australia: Cambridge University Press.
Rosenbach, W. E., Taylor, R. L., & Youndt, M. A. (Eds.). (2014). Contemporary issues in leadership (7th ed.). Boulder, CO, USA: Westview Press.

Please read the article below (for educational use only) and answer the questions that follow which include asking you to find and review an article on revenue cycle management in healthcare and share its title and url. Chapter Ten discussed revenue cycle management and its importance, components of the revenue cycle and methods to improve the flow of revenue (ie manage) in your healthcare organization)
Intermountain revenue cycle exec says integration is a decade-long process
Todd Craghead has been at the forefront of integrating revenue cycle for a large health system.
Susan Morse, Associate Editor
Todd Craghead, vice president of Revenue Cycle Organization at Intermountain Healthcare, has been at the forefront of integrating revenue cycle for a large health system.
Ten years ago, Craghead, who oversees $5 billion in annual gross patient revenue for the Utah health system, began consolidating revenue cycle functions across 22 hospitals and over 100 physician clinics.
“We had a system that was fairly decentralized,” he said. “One of the things that was apparent was the pressure on administrative costs to the health system. One of the things I was asked to do was to develop a more consolidated approach.
Without standardization, there was a wide variation in practices.
Each individual hospital had a director who reported to the CFO.
That model, was “tipped on its head,” Craghead said. “We looked at those directors and went through a process of their areas of passion. One took accountability across the entire system, another patient access — we switched over to a subset of areas.”
It was challenging, he said.
Revenue Cycle directors were used to dealing with an individual hospital’s accounts receivables balance, or with payers who were not paying, and could use the resources to try and solve those issues.
Now these efforts were being redirected.
“It was difficult, folks were used to having control over resources,” he said. “We had a process across a group of hospitals that were operating more or less independently in this area.”
Staffing levels were also reduced.
“We continue to see reductions in staffing levels in this environment,” he said. “We’re better able to leverage standardized workflow tools to manage productivity. It was very instrumental in understanding what staff was needed to do the work.”
Across the system, Intermountain has A/R days in a very reasonable range; denial rates are half a percent, Craghead said.
“A centralized appeals team have kept our denial rates low, some of the lowest I’ve seen in the country,” he said.
Craghead, who will discuss the process of how he centralized revenue cycle during the Revenue Cycle Solutions Summit on December 8 in Atlanta, has also changed the reporting relationship with the business office.
“Organizationally, we identified functions that made sense to be managed together,” he said.
The registration area, and pre-registration and insurance verification were organized into a hierarchy, he said.
“Executives who had accountability across functions all report directly through one revenue cycle executive on my team, and he has a director who focuses on pre-registration and scheduling functions,” Craghead said.
There are four regional office locations where the business office functions are performed.
“Likewise they report to a single executive on my team,” he said.
Ten years later, “There are still opportunities for improvement,” he said.
The next challenge is price transparency and patient engagement.
Pre-registration can already be done online at Intermountain, and when patients arrive at many locations, they have access to kiosks that have an automated system, Craghead said. Or, they can still speak to a staff member.
“Price transparency and price estimating I think it’s been a very challenging topic of the industry to tackle as a whole,” he said. “It may be around sensitivity to payer-based contracts, to estimate out- of-pocket costs, which may be different than what they pay for a particular service.”
Providers have the problem of being able to understand where the patient is in the benefit structure, such as what they’re paying for a deductible.
“If I can’t clearly understand that information,” he said, “then we miscalculate out-of-pocket costs.”
Patients are also taking a more proactive approach as they pay a greater share of their healthcare costs.
“I think it’s going to continue to be a challenge for health systems to estimate what the patient might be expected to pay for a service,” he said. “I believe the payers need to take a more active role than they have in the past, to provide an estimate to members.”
Intermountain has a health plan as part of its network that has been a good test of the function between provider and payer.
“I think we’ve had interesting outcomes,” he said. “How to integrate provider and payer when you’re one company as we are.”
Twitter: @SusanJMorse Q1. Why is it beneficial for healthcare organizations to consider hiring a revenue cycle manager? What skill sets should be required in hiring a revenue cycle manager? Who should the revenue cycle manager report to? Q2. Please look for your own article on revenue cycle management, attach the article and send three highlights from the article to me under this question. Please share the article’s title and its url.

This week we are learning about ordinal/categorical, continuous, and dichotomous variables. Using the Gestation Demographics SEU dataset that is located in the tabs at the bottom of the Framingham dataset provided, perform the following problems using R Studio or Excel.Create a simple distribution graph (histogram) where we will explore the age of women after giving birth to their first child. Remember that a histogram consists of parallel vertical bars that show the frequency distribution of a quantitative variable in the graph. See the example in Introductory Statistics with R on pages 71-7 or pages 123-124 in EXCEL statistics A quick guide. The area of each bar is equal to the frequency of items found in each class.
Determine the mean age of the women in the Gestation Demographics SEU dataset.
We will be testing the hypothesis that the mean age (μ = μ0) for women is 37 years in the Gestation Demographics SEU dataset. The topic of hypothesis testing was introduced in HCM505. If you need a review see Chapter 7 of our text.
H0 The mean age of women giving birth is 37 years old. (Null Hypothesis)
H1 The mean age of women giving birth is not 37 years old. (Alternative Hypothesis)Ensure to submit the following requirements for the assignment:Present your findings in a Word document, by copying and pasting the histogram into the document.
After your analysis state whether you accept or reject the null hypothesis and your reasoning why.
Always use a title page, an introduction, a discussion where you interpret the meaning of the histogram, and a conclusion should be included.
Your submission should be 2–3 pages to discuss and display your findings.
Provide support for your statements with in-text citations from a minimum of two scholarly, peer-reviewed articles. One of these sources may be from the class readings, textbook, or lectures, but the others must be external. The Saudi Digital Library is a good place to find these sources and should be your primary resource for conducting research.
Follow APA 7th edition 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. Gestation_Demographics_SEU_2021.xlsx

Apply risk management terminology to conduct a risk assessment about the Blue Bell case.Read and evaluate the the Blue Bell case study(https://www.cdc.gov/listeria/outbreaks/ice-cream-0…
Summarize the results in 1-2 pages and 2-4 lines of the risk assessment using the provided template https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xHUWxNMSrR…
The evaluation must include information about:
Manufacturer (name and short description of the type of markets they serve)
Product (name of the product and the description of the type of therapy)
Intended use (therapy, application, etc.) of the product
Date of situation
Hazard
Foreseeable Sequence of Events (Failure Modes, Causes, etc.)
Hazardous Situation
Harm
Severity
Occurrence
Risk and the Risk Acceptability based on the class’ risk acceptance criteria.
Benefits expected by the product