Discussion And Responses

 Reflect on the assigned readings for Week 1 and then type a two page paper regarding what you thought was the most important concept(s), method(s), term(s), and/or any other thing that you felt was worthy of your understanding.  Define and describe what you thought was worthy of your understanding in half a page, and then explain why you felt it was important, how you will use it, and/or how important it is in project management. After submitting your two page paper as an initial post in the “Reflection and Discussion Forum,” then type at least two peer replies in response to your classmates posts (200 word minimum each). 

 Initial response is due Thursday by 11:59 PM EST.

Two (2) responses to other posts are due Saturday by 11:59 PM EST.

Upstream Approaches to Canadian Population Health

Although Canada is contiguous to the United States and has some cultural and historical similarities, Canadas population enjoys a vastly superior health status. Reasons are many, can be traced historically, and are related to a different view of the role of government. The experience of Canada demonstrates that neither a heterogeneous population, nor a health system that has waiting lines for services, are reasons for poor health. By looking critically at what produces good health in Canada, much can be learned about steps the U.S. might need to take if population health is its goal.
The Canadian Best Practices Portal challenges Canadian public health practitioners and researchers to create upstream interventions aimed at the source of a population health problem or benefit. What is being done to address the influences on population health in Canada?

Assignment

Provide a description of an existing intervention in Canada, intended to improve health inequities. Include an explanation of the inequity and how the intervention targets upstream determinants of health.
Describe the organizations involved and/or social policies enacted in the implementation of the intervention.
Explain whether or not the intervention was/is successful and what lessons public health practitioners can learn from that experience that might improve population health in the United State

Business and Society

Instructions:

– This assignment requires you to write a 600 word evaluation or analysis of a reading based on the question (which i will provide)
– You will be evaluated on how well you deal with the key issues, problems or questions that the author is trying to address
– Many of the reading analysis questions require you to explain why you agree or disagree with the author.
– These topics are designed to get you to think about how (or whether) the author has enhanced our understanding of some subject matter or problem related to business and society

Question:

Why do Green and Dennis think that supply-side policy needs to be given a greater emphasis in the fight against climate change? Do you agree?

Reading:
I will attach the reading for this assignment.

Math Experts Only

 

Please respond to both POST1: and POST2: in at least 200 words each.

Initial post that both POST1: and POST2: are responding to.

Consider the following two functions:

  • F(m): The average temperature in Fahrenheit during month (m) of the year.

Month (m)

F(m)

Month (m)

F(m)

Month (m)

F(m)

January

42

May

72

September

73

February

43

June

83

October

63

March

52

July

84

November

55

April

63

August

84

December

44

  • C(f): The conversion formula to calculate the temperature in Celsius based on the temperature in Fahrenheit (f).

For this discussion, your task is as follows:

  • Calculate (C F) for the month of your choice.
  • Discuss the meaning of the function (C F)(m).
  • How does the composition of functions in parts (a) and (b) compare to (F C)(m)? Are they the same?

POST1:

Hello Class,

The month I will use to calculate will be F(August)=84.

In this example we are using two known functions to produce desired outputs. These are functions because for every input there is only one output.

a) C(F)=5/9*(F-32)= C(84)=5/9*(84-32)= 28.89

b) (C F)(m) is used to describe the function that converts F(m) from a average temperature in Fahrenheit to an average temperature in Celsius. In the above example F(August)=84 so we can substitute the value of F to find an equivalent output in Celsius.

c) (F C)(m) would be used to convert the Average temperature in Celsius to Average temperature in Fahrenheit. This conversion would need a known value of C(m). That value would be an input into the function F(C).

POST2:

For this example, I chose to calculate by birth month of February averaging 43 degrees Fahrenheit. Using c(f) = 5/9 (f-32)

A) The temperature in Celsius is calculated as:

c(43) = 5/9 (43-32)

=5/9(11)

=6.1 degrees Celsius

B) The function (C F)(m) is to take the average temperature, in Fahrenheit, from the months in a year and convert this into Celsius.

C) (C F) (m) would be different from (F C) (m). While (C F) (m) gives the average temperature of a particular month in Celsius, (F C) (m) converts visa versa.