Explain why increased cultural diversity in Saskatchewan BC Canada will affect health care in the province.

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Question 2:
Immigration trends in Saskatchewan
Instructions
1. Please answer the following questions:
a. Explain why increased cultural diversity in Saskatchewan BC Canada will affect health care in the province.
b. As you read in the textbook, the mounting evidence from social research indicates that, more and more, “…we find support for the use of a population health perspective to examine the relationship between ethnicity, immigration, and health. Such a perspective recognizes that the socio-demographic, cultural and lifestyle characteristics of individuals and their interactions, rather than “medical care inputs and health behaviours” are the most important predictors of health status and health care utilization over the adult life course” (Strohschein/Bolaria, 2014, pp. 88).
Given this, explain why the population health perspective is an appropriate framework to use in order to try and understand how health care should respond to increasing diversity in Saskatchewan.

Cultural Difference in Health Care

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Questions 1:
Cultural Difference in Health Care
The following examples of ethical dilemmas that health care professionals face are the direct result of cultural differences within our society. They are just a few examples of cultural and ideological clashes that often occur in health care.
1. A couple from South Asia has requested an ultrasound. They want to know whether or not their unborn baby/fetus is a boy or a girl. If it is a girl, they wish to have an abortion. Their culture believes that males have more value than females.
2. A dying man from a Hutterite colony wishes to be home to die a slow death. His culture believes this is an important point in a person’s life where the ‘fortunate one’ can talk to the colony members, set things right, and pass on his knowledge before dying.
3. A patient consults a Chinese herbalist and is given powerful herbal remedies that dangerously mix with her doctor-prescribed pharmaceuticals. The patient refuses to stop the herbal remedies because of her belief that the herbs have the power to cure.
Instructions
1. Now that you have read through the examples, think about what you would do in each of these scenarios.
2. As you are composing your response, consider the following questions:
a. Do you always have to ethically agree with the person in care?
b. What will you do if you do not agree?
c. Is it ok to stand up for your own beliefs in any of these situations?

First, read Case Study 5-6, Develop a Motivation Plan, on page 133 in Organizational Behavior in Health Care.

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First, read Case Study 5-6, Develop a Motivation Plan, on page 133 in Organizational Behavior in Health Care. Within the principles of the content theories of Maslow, Herzberg, and Alderfer, address the following in a paper: 1. Explain why Susan has been behaving the way she has over the past three months. 2. Offer three specific recommendations to address the problem. Your well-written paper should meet the following requirements: • Be 4-5 pages in length, not including the required cover and reference pages, • Formatted according to Saudi Electronic University and APA writing guidelines, and • Provide support for your statements with in-text citations from a minimum of three scholarly articles from peer-reviewed journal articles. Case Study 5–6 Develop a Motivation Plan Jane Couch is the director of nursing for a 400-bed nonprofit hospital in the Southwest. Susan Smith joined the hospital as a staff nurse three years ago after relocating from the northeast. She is 30 years old and has been a staff nurse since graduating from a two-year college nursing program 10 years ago. She is married to a lawyer, and they have two children, ages 6 and 8. The hospital’s inpatient census has been extremely high because of another hospital’s closing. The tension on the nursing floors has been running pretty high because of time pressures to discharge patients early, lack of professional staff, and an upcoming accreditation visit from The Joint Commission. Because of time restraints, Jane was unable to complete the staff’s annual performance evaluations. However, all nurses received a 5 percent pay increase. With this increase, the hospital staff is now the highest paid as compared with other hospitals within the region. Jane believes the higher pay compensates the nursing staff for their increased workload and related stress levels. Until recently, Jane had been pleased with Susan’s performance. Susan had demonstrated her willingness to work hard and had made very few, if any, patient-care errors. However, over the past three months, Jane has noticed that Susan is not performing at her same productivity level and appears to argue frequently with the treating physicians and other nurses about the patients’ treatment plans. Jane frequently hears Susan complaining that “no one listens to me,” “no one wants to hear my opinion,” and “they don’t pay me enough to do this job.” Susan was once a highly motivated, productive member of the nursing staff. Jane understands that everyone is experiencing more stress than usual because of the increased workload, but what can be done to motivate Susan to her prior “self”? Within the principles of the content theories of Maslow, Herzberg, and Alderfer, explain to the director of nursing why Susan is behaving the way she has over the past three months.

Yes! I agree completely that the cost of drugs required to treat acute and chronic illness is a huge problem among health care facilities and patient quality of life! I have known several people diagnosed with cancer and have great insurance in the beginning, only have to go on to stop working and lose insurance. What happens next? They cannot afford the treatment due to the high prices for meds. It’s really sad that that is the way it is.

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Yes! I agree completely that the cost of drugs required to treat acute and chronic illness is a huge problem among health care facilities and patient quality of life! I have known several people diagnosed with cancer and have great insurance in the beginning, only have to go on to stop working and lose insurance. What happens next? They cannot afford the treatment due to the high prices for meds. It’s really sad that that is the way it is.

One of the reasons that the cost of drug prices are higher in the United States, is that the U.S. allows drug companies to set their own price for medications. In other countries, a delegated body negotiates the price, and it is loosely based upon the benefit of the drug to the patient (Kesselheim, Avorn, & Sarpatwari, 2016).

With the prevalence of chronic diseases, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) cite part of the reasoning for high drug prices is due partially to specialty drugs (Abramowitz & Cobaugh, 2016). Do you feel that with the high number of baby boomers approaching the age of needing more medical needs, big pharma companies see a supply and demand-type situation to raise the cost of drugs?