Write 400-600 words in APA 7 format with proper in-text citations. Include 2-3 scholarly references and provide copies of all used references.
Assignment Details:
Review and reflect on the knowledge you have gained from this course. Based on your review and reflection, write at least 400-600 words on the following:
- What were the most compelling topics learned in this course?
- How did participating in discussions help your understanding of the subject matter?
- Is anything still unclear that could be clarified?
- What approaches could have yielded additional valuable information?
- COURSE DESCRIPTION: The rising cost of healthcare in the United States continues to be on the forefront of many political campaigns and discussions. This course will provide an overview of global health problems and national health systems to provide the student with a perspective on how societies in developed and under-developed countries approach health and healthcare including cultural, economic and political factors. In addition to national systems, the roles played by certain global/international systems such as the Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx), World Health Organization (WHO), certain United Nations (UN) agencies and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), will be explored. The student will examine the struggles faced by healthcare leaders in managing multiple demands and pressures to contain costs while providing quality care.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
- Analyze the development of the Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx) and the significance towards world health improvement, data mining, global health reform and debate the need to adopt new technologies versus allocating resources for direct primary care (technology).
- Analyze the interrelationship of global health to foreign policy and macroeconomics while examining US Healthcare spending on an international perspective.
- Analyze the underlying determinants of biological and cultural perspectives on public health.
- Examine the influence of social and cultural constructs to sickness and healing while differentiating between preventive and curative services and the need for balancing these services from a financial perspective.
- Propose the need for maintaining a well-trained healthcare workforce and ensuring consumer participation when providing healthcare services
- Research the significant differences between several major health systems in the world.
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