Use the Internet to research one (1) developing nation of your choice. Your research should include an examination of lending institutions, health care, and human capital

Write a three (3) page research paper in which you: 1.Explore whether or not funding from international lending institutions like the World Bank and the IMF are helping or hindering the social, economic, or political development of the country that you have selected. Support your response with examples. 2.Discuss, with examples, at least four (4) substantive ways in which a healthy population strengthens the economy of the country that you have selected. 3.Ascertain the degree to which the leadership of your chosen country has used foreign aid to improve its health care system. Support your response with concrete examples. 4.Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia, blogs, and other nonacademic websites do not qualify as academic resources. Approval of resources is at the instructor’s discretion. Resources must also be within the last seven (7) years.

Access to quality healthcare is a major social issue in the United States and around the world.  In fact, healthcare reform and access to affordable health insurance is a hotly debated political issue.  Many advocates of healthcare reform point to the high level of spending on healthcare in the United Sates and the relatively poor health outcomes in the U.S. as compared to other countries.  In 2010, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) passed, and was later upheld by the Supreme Court. While this controversial policy greatly decreased the number of U.S. citizens without health insurance, the United States still stands more or less alone among wealthy industrialized democracies in this approach to healthcare.  For this discussion, you will take an in-depth look at access to healthcare as a social problem by comparing the U.S. healthcare system to another country of your choice.  
 
For this discussion review each of the following resources:
 

Poor and Uninsured  (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Key Facts about the Uninsured  (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: How the Performance of the U.S. Health Care System Compares Internationally  (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Here’s a Map of the Countries that Provide Universal Health Care  (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Recommended: U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective: Spending, Use of Services, Prices, and Health in 13 Countries  (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Based on these resources, please address each of the following:
 

In general, who comprises the uninsured population in the United States?  Since the passage of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, what are the most common reasons that people still lack health insurance?  
Describe how healthcare spending in the U.S. compares to other countries.  Describe how healthcare outcomes in the U.S. compare to other countries.  Based on the resources you reviewed, are healthcare spending and health outcomes related to one another?  In other words, does spending more on health care lead to better health outcomes (i.e. a healthier population) and vice versa?
What is universal health care?  Describe the healthcare system in at least one country that guarantees universal health coverage to all of its citizens (you can find a list of such countries in the resources provided). 
How does a universal health care system compare to the system currently in place in the U.S.?  In your informed opinion, why is the U.S. one of the only wealthy industrialized democracies that does not have university healthcare coverage?
According to the Commonwealth Fund reports, how is the performance of the United States’ healthcare system related to equity?  Which social groups have the least access to quality healthcare?  Why?

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Benchmark – Professional Capstone And Practicum Reflective Journal

Details:
Students are required to maintain weekly reflective narratives throughout the course to combine into one course-long reflective journal that integrates leadership and inquiry into current practice as it applies to the Professional Capstone and Practicum course.
In your journal, you will reflect on the personal knowledge and skills gained throughout this course. The journal should address a variable combination of the following, depending on your specific practice immersion clinical experiences:

  1. New practice approaches
  2. Intraprofessional collaboration
  3. Health care delivery and clinical systems
  4. Ethical considerations in health care
  5. Population health concerns
  6. The role of technology in improving health care outcomes
  7. Health policy
  8. Leadership and economic models
  9. Health disparities

Students will outline what they have discovered about their professional practice, personal strengths and weaknesses that surfaced, additional resources and abilities that could be introduced to a given situation to influence optimal outcomes, and finally, how the student met the competencies aligned to this course.
While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.

Political Challenges of the CHIP On the basis of your understanding about CHIP, create a 2- to 3-page report in a Microsoft Word document on the political challenges regarding the CHIP. Your report should be created using the following guidelines:
  • Review at least two articles on the given topic, and write a review for each article.
  • Evaluate the main points of the articles, and relate them to your course and text readings.
  • Compare and contrast each article reviewed. Which of these articles do you find more relevant from a professional point of view, and why?
[Note: Find at least two sources of information for the topic utilizing such resources as the South University Online Library journal databases (for example, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) or ProQuest) or reputable Internet resources. Do not use the text or the assigned articles for this assignment.] Support your responses with examples. Cite any sources in APA format.
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