Explain how lack of secure, stable shelter contributes to illness

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Assignment 1>>> Public Health and Care for the Homeless

1. Explain how lack of secure, stable shelter contributes to illness. Discuss the concept that “housing is health care.”

Formatting:

  • Assignments must be submitted using Microsoft Word.
  • Include your name, date, and assignment number at the top of your paper
  • Include the assignment questions in your paper and answer the questions directly in the order that they are listed
  • Your paper should be structured in paragraph form, not as an outline or list of bullet points.
  • Your assignment must be 1.5 – 2 pages long (not including references, which can go over the 2 page limit)
  • Text must be single-spaced, 1-inch margins, Times New Roman, 12-point font.
  • Citations and references may be either AMA or APA, but must be consistent and accurate throughout the paper.

Please see attached PDF file for more information, and PowerPoints slide to start the paper . You must follow the formatting of this paper

Expansion of Mental Health or Substance Abuse Services

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Expansion of Mental Health or Substance Abuse Services

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Under the ACA, the expansion of behavioral health services is mandated for health care organizations. Whether your current health care organization already offers these types of behavioral services, or whether it will need to begin offering these types of behavioral health services, is subject to evaluation and goal setting by both the health care executive and the board of directors. As a current or future health care executive, you will likely engage in developing business plans for new initiatives and health care delivery service flows in your health care organization. With the recent move to address expanded behavioral health services in health care organizations, developing a business plan for expanded behavioral health services is both timely and appropriate.

Review the resources for this week and review the business plan template for this Assignment. Reflect on the major considerations your health care leadership team members need to keep in mind when developing a business plan for the expansion of either mental health or substance abuse services in your health care organization.

The Assignment: (5 pages)

  • The ACA has provided for increased coverage of mental health and substance abuse services; however, there remains a shortage of these services in health care organizations. Your role as a health care leadership team is to evaluate opportunities for expanded behavioral health initiatives. Develop a business plan to model the expansion of either mental health or substance abuse services within your health care organization.
  • Also, prepare your business development plan as a PowerPoint presentation.

References:

Albright, B. (2014). The ACA and behavioral health: A look ahead. Behavioral Healthcare, 34. (2), 36–40.

Beronio, K., Glied, S., & Frank, R. (2014). How the Affordable Care Act and mental health parity and Addiction Equity Act expand coverage of behavioral health care. Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research, 41(4), 410–428.

Buck, J. A. (2011). The looming expansion and transformation of public substance abuse treatment under the affordable care act. Health Affairs, 30(8), 1402–1410.

Coffey, M. J., & Coffey, C. E. (2016). There is no health(care) without mental health(care). In The Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development of the American Hospital Association (Ed.), Futurescan healthcare trends and implications: 2016–2021 (pp. 43–46). Chicago, IL: Health Administration Press.

Garfield, R. L., Lave, J. R., & Donohue, J. M. (2010). Health reform and the scope of benefits for mental health and substance use disorder services. Psychiatric Services, 61(11), 1081–1086.

Ogundipe, B., Alam, F., Gazula, L, Olagbemiro, Y., Osiezagha, K., Bailey, R. K., & Richie, W. D. (2015 ). Remaking the American health care system: A positive reflection on the Affordable Care Act with emphasis on mental health care. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 26(1), 49–61.

Analyze the competitive environment of a health services organization and identify a course of action that will allow for strategic marketing success

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For this assignment, use the same health care provider as in Assignment 1.

Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:

  1. Determine the key characteristics of the users of the products and/or services of the health care provider you selected.
  2. Analyze the competitive environment of the health care provider you selected and recommend a course of action for strategic marketing success.
  3. Determine which tools of the marketing mix available to health care providers would be most effective for the health care provider you selected.
  4. Determine the best possible pricing strategy for at least one of the products or services offered by the health care provider you selected.
  5. Provide at least three (3) qualified sources, e.g., peer-reviewed journals, professional organization Website, or health care provider Websites.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
  • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Analyze the competitive environment of a health services organization and identify a course of action that will allow for strategic marketing success.
  • Analyze the users of the health care system.
  • Describe the various tools of the marketing mix available to health care providers.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in health services marketing.
  • Write clearly and concisely about health services marketing using proper writing mechanics.

I Don’t Know Nothing About Birthing No Business

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Discussion Topic 1: I Don’t Know Nothing About Birthing No Business!

You are creating a business plan for your Unit 9 Assignment. Share with your colleagues in class what your business plan is addressing the following topics:

  • What problem did you identify for your business plan?
  • What are you proposing to solve the problem with your business plan?
  • Who is your competition?
  • How do you plan to market your solution?

below is a discussion going along with this

Health Care Financing

In consideration of the financing of health care and maintaining the financial health of a healthcare organization, the primary stakeholders are policymakers, employers, care providers, insurance firms, pharmaceutical companies, and government (Gottret and Schieber, 2006). Each of them has specific duties and responsibilities regarding health care financing. Ideally, policymakers design policies that would maximize the health of a given population within the region’s financial and resource constraints. Further, the primary goal of healthcare employers is to make money. However, many employers provide health insurance coverage with various deductibles and co-pays for their employees’ health care services. Similarly, many care providers are independent businesses that must manage their operations and finances. Two of the stakeholders, insurance firms, and pharmaceutical companies, have the primary responsibility of maximizing stockholder wealth. Insurance firms sell health coverage plans to patients directly, and indirectly through the employer or governmental intermediaries. On the other hand, pharmaceutical companies produce and market medications, which doctors prescribe to treat patients.

Typically the pharmaceutical and insurance firms obtain remuneration for their efforts through insurance or drug-benefit plans by the government (Getzen, 2012). Moreover, the body, in engaging in the provision of healthcare, focuses on its constitutional duties and responsibilities towards its citizens. Such actions involve subsidizing healthcare for the vulnerable population, which includes the aging persons, the disabled, and the poor. In financial terms, the stakeholders on the one hand, and patients and healthcare organizations on the other have a customer-supplier relationship. Thus, to sustain health care financing and a healthcare organization’s financial health, the stakeholders aim to reduce the costs of maintaining their portfolios of care services. Such endeavor makes the parties important for encouraging and even investing in the future uptake of initiatives for healthy living and stakeholder consolidation to manage healthcare risk (Cleverley, 2017). The inventiveness may include an emphasis on primary care, integrated care models, and value-based purchasing model of healthcare payment.

References

Cleverley, W. O. (2017). Essentials of health care finance. Jones & Bartlett Learning.

Getzen, T. E. (2012). Health economics and financing. Wiley Global Education.

Gottret, P. E., & Schieber, G. (2006). Health financing revisited: A practitioner’s guide. World Bank Publications.

minimum 250 words and 3 references