Discuss the current health situation and health problems that the WASH program may prevent or control.

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Propose a WASH (water, sanitation, and hygiene) program to address a significant health problem in a community from Bolivia. This paper must be based upon your topic (Landfills: solid waste disposal), outline, and references.

You must write a 10–12-page, research-based paper in current AMA format that focuses on an approved topic. The reference and title page are not included in the page count. The paper must include at least 10 scholarly references in addition to the course textbooks and the Bible.

Make sure to include the following:

• Address the major water, sanitation, and hygiene concerns of community of the selected country/region.

• In your WASH program, also address one of the water/sanitation topics.

• Describe the importance of the WASH program.

• Discuss the current health situation and health problems that the WASH program may prevent or control.

• Your proposed program must include an analysis of the cultural, social, behavioral, biological, and environmental factors that contribute to the water/sanitation problem. Include the role of the national and international collaborators and funders.

• The proposal strategy must be evidence-based. Draw on experience from similar programs or interventions. This section must be based on at least 2 peer-reviewed references.

• Discuss program challenges and limitations, focusing on at least 3.

• Follow your outline.

• Use approved font style, size, and double-spacing

• The paper and all citations must be in current AMA format.

• References must be no more than 5 years old.

What do you think it is like to work at the agency? What might the agency look like through the clients’ eyes?

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In Chapter 8, you read about working in an agency. Now you will explore a bit closer how the agency looks from your perspective and that of a client. The definition of a human services agency is so broad that you likely visit one frequently. Go sit in the waiting room of a human services agency in your community. If you are not able to visit an agency in person, refer to one of the agencies featured in one of the optional resources for the module (Bringing Storytime to the Long Wait for Social Services or What if Our Healthcare System Kept Us Healthy?). Consider the following questions from the point of view of a worker at the agency and that of a client:
1. What do you think it is like to work at the agency? What might the agency look like through the clients’ eyes?
2. If you worked at the agency, what do you think your day-to-day challenges would be and why?
3. How could you suggest an improved experience or environment to support the agency’s clients?

Describe the issues facing the Sandwich Generation and how we can support them.

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The Sandwich Generation refers to individuals who are being pulled by the needs of their children and parents. Although their children may be getting older, they still ″need″ their parents. In addition, their parents are getting older and now need to rely on them as well. Watch this newsclip: (http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/healthscience/2009/May/Are-You-Caught-in-the-Sandwich-Generation/). Talk to someone you know who is a part of this sandwich generation about their experience. Describe the issues facing the Sandwich Generation and how we can support them.

Analyze the impact of DRGs and related forms of prospective payment on the American health care system, especially the care of the dying.

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For Chapter 5: Health Care Systems: Patients, Staff, and Institutions, discuss two of the six questions below. In your submission, identify by number which questions you are answering.
1. Describe the conventional approach to treatment of the dying in hospitals. Compare this description to an idealized model that could be instituted.
2. What are the factors or circumstances that are driving up the cost of health care in this country and what can be done about this from the side of all players, government, health insurance companies, medical providers, and consumers?
3. Analyze the impact of DRGs and related forms of prospective payment on the American health care system, especially the care of the dying.
4. Discuss the reasons why professional caregivers may experience stress in caring for the dying. Discuss how caregivers can decrease this stress.
5. Contrast the roles, types of care, and philosophical differences between hospice and conventional hospital care.
6. Identify and discuss three challenges for contemporary hospices.