Health Policy

Identify at least two medical management committees within an HCO and explain their roles. How can medical management committees influence the process of health policymaking outside of their HCO's? List some legal and ethical dilemmas to consider when creating new policies.

Pros & Cons of Embryonic Stem Cell Research

1. What are the main arguments for and against embyonic stem cell research? 2. What are President Bush's views? 3. Does the US public support embryonic stem cell research or not? Include recent statistics and poll findings.

Assessing and Regulating Healthcare

For this assignment you are being asked to consider ethical issues in public health and health services. Using course materials, the Internet, and your Library you are to answer the following questions: 1. What tensions exist between protection of the public's health and protection of individual rights? 2. How should scarce health resources be allocated and used? 3. What should the balance be between expenditures and quality of life in the case of chronic and terminal illness? 4. What are appropriate limits on using expensive medical technology? 5. What obligations do health care insurers and health care providers have in meeting the right-to-know of patients as consumers? ... click for more

Accreditation of Health Care Services

What are your feelings on accreditation of health care services? Do you think the reviews and documentation necessary for accreditation assist in improving processes?

Actions of a community health nurse

What actions by the community health nurse would assist her/him in increasing the community’s trust in a plan for a community health education series?