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Healthcare Systems Around the World

Healthcare systems around the world provide different levels and types of care; funding foreign systems is dramatically different from the United States. Choose a country other than the United States, and research its health care system.

For this discussion, you will provide an overview on your selected country’s health care system. In your main response, address the following elements including consideration of your answers to the questions below:

• Describe any foreign healthcare system by answering the following questions:
  • How do the people in the country access health care?
  • How do the citizens of the country pay for the health care?
  • What is the quality of the health care they receive? Are there unique services provided?
  • Describe some of the pros and cons of the system.
• Identify at least two examples of similarities between your selected country and the U.S. healthcare system.
• Differentiate between U.S. health care and the health care system of the country you chose by sharing at least two examples of how they are different.

You must use at least two scholarly or government resources besides your textbook in your research and response.

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It’s common knowledge that using computers in the health care industry can improve the quality and effectiveness of care while reducing costs. However, the adoption of computerized clinical information systems in health care lags behind the use of computers in most other sectors of the economy.

For additional information about health care data, tools, and publications, visit the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHCPR) Website athttp://www.ahrq.gov/research/index.html. (Note: The use of this Website is not required for your assignment.)

Write a five to seven (5-7) page paper in which you:

1.Explain the key benefits that object-oriented programming could afford the health care industry.

2.Provide at least one (1) example that demonstrates the primary manner in which the health care industry could implement control structures (i.e., selection and repetition).

(Note: Each example must be approximately one [1] page in length.)

3.Provide at least one (1) example that demonstrates the key manner in which the health care industry could implement functions.

(Note: Each example must be approximately one [1] page in length.)

4.Provide at least one (1) example that demonstrates the primary manner in which the health care industry could implement arrays and records (structs).

(Note: Each example must be approximately one [1] page in length.)

5.Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment.Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.