Assume the role of a chief researcher for the state Department of Education who is examining two groups with similar educational deficiencies. One group involved in the study is a rural, ethnically-defined, aboriginal group with a high rate of health issues including diabetes, vision impairment, and heart disease.

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Details:
Assume the role of a chief researcher for the state Department of Education who is examining two groups with similar educational deficiencies. One group involved in the study is a rural, ethnically-defined, aboriginal group with a high rate of health issues including diabetes, vision impairment, and heart disease. The other group is also a rural group living on family-owned farms (as opposed to corporate farms) that are in severe decline as a result of years of decreasing rainfall and drought. Both groups exhibit achievement test scores that are more than one standard deviation below the mean at all grade levels, and excessive high school drop-out rates.
General Requirements:
Use the following information to ensure successful completion of the assignment:
• Instructors will be using a grading rubric to grade the assignments. It is recommended that learners review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment in order to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of the assignment.
• Doctoral learners are required to use APA style for their writing assignments. The APA Style Guide is located in the Student Success Center.
• This assignment requires that at least two additional scholarly research sources related to this topic, and at least one in-text citation from each source be included
Directions:
Use the scenario presented above to write a paper of 1,000-1,250 words that addresses the use of qualitative research as a means of studying the two groups in the scenario. Include the following in your paper:
1. A rationale for using qualitative research methods instead of quantitative research.
2. A statement of how the worldviews and paradigms of the researcher may create bias when applying qualitative research to the given scenario.

Application: Systems Theory For this Assignment, you apply systems theory to the examination of a problem in a department or a unit within a health care organization.

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Assignment: Application: Systems Theory For this Assignment, you apply systems theory to the examination of a problem in a department or a unit within a health care organization. To prepare:
1. Review the Meyer article, “Nursing Services Delivery Theory: An Open System Approach,” in this week’s Learning Resources. Focus especially on the information presented in Table 1 (p. 2831) and Figure 2 (p. 2833). 2. Reflect on your organization or one with which you are familiar. Within a particular department or unit in this organization, identify a problem the staff is encountering. 3. Using Table 1 in the Meyer article as a guide, analyze the department or unit, identifying inputs, throughput, output, cycles of events, and negative feedback. Consider whether the problem you have selected relates to input, throughput, output, cycles of events, and/or negative feedback. 4. Think about how you could address the problem: Consider what a desired outcome would be, then formulate related goals and objectives, and translate those goals into policies and procedures. 5. Research professional standards that are pertinent to your identified problem. 6. Reflect on the organization’s mission statement and values. In addition, consider how addressing this problem would uphold the mission and values, while improving the organizational culture and climate. (Depending on the organization you have selected, you may have explored these in the Week 1 Discussion.) To complete: Write a 3- to 5-page paper (page count does not include title and reference page) that addresses the following:
1. Describe a department or unit within a health care organization using systems theory terminology. Include a description of inputs, throughput, output, cycles of events, and negative feedback. 2. Describe the problem you identified within the department or unit using an open- systems approach, and state where the problem exists using the systems theory model (input, throughput, output, cycles of events, or negative feedback). 3. Based on this information, explain how you would address the problem as follows: a. Formulate a desired outcome. b. Identify goals and objectives that would facilitate that outcome. c. Translate those goals and objectives into policies and procedures for the department or unit. d. Describe relevant professional standards. 4. Explain how your proposed resolution to the problem would uphold the organization’s mission and values and improve the culture and climate.

What essential factors of production will be most important to your business? For example, what will you need in the way of labor, land, buildings, money and technology?

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Unit 1 Discussion 2: Taking Ownership
Many of us have very definite career goals. At some time or another, we all dream of owning our own business, of being our own boss. Maybe you want to open a home health care business or a computer repair business or maybe you want to own a restaurant or club or day care center.
You probably found it interesting to read that our free market economy here in the U.S. is built upon such entrepreneurship – that willingness to create a business from the ground up. Small businesses, those that employ no more than 20 workers, “account for almost 86% of all U.S businesses.” (Ebert, R., & Griffin R., 2011, p. 38) Even large businesses such as Microsoft, General Motors, Dell, and General Electric, depend upon small businesses to support their companies.
Let’s assume you are an entrepreneur and you want to start your own business. You possess a strong work ethic and you are willing to take the risks involved in building your own business. Let your mind dream a bit. You can do anything you want!
In your post, respond to the following points.
• If you started your own business from scratch, what would it be?
• What products and services would you offer to your customers?
• What essential factors of production will be most important to your business? For example, what will you need in the way of labor, land, buildings, money and technology?
• Why will your business be successful? What might create failure?
• Many customers support businesses that are actively involved in the community, that work to make the world a better place. Explain how you might make your business socially responsible. How would you give back to your community and to society as a whole?
• When you reply to your classmates, analyze their plans. Would you invest in their start up business?

What factors explain why the United States has a health disadvantage compared to other wealthy nations?

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This module looks at who the stakeholders are in the U.S. health care system and how and why their wants and needs vary. This module also explores the incentives and disincentives to lower costs and improve quality of care in the US, and it illustrates the fragmentation and lack of centralized oversight of the system. Particular attention is paid to regional variation.
Gawande, A. (2009). The cost conundrum. New Yorker, 85(16), 36.
Shi, Ch. 12: Cost, Access, and Quality
Bohmer & Knoop, 2006, “The Challenge Facing the U.S. Healthcare Delivery System” (606096)
Questions
• 1. What are the three reasons why United States expenditures on health differ from other OECD countries?
• 2. What factors explain why the United States has a health disadvantage compared to other wealthy nations?