Assignment:
Global Health Macroeconomics
Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400 to 600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
Library Research Assignment
You are interested in learning more about the health care reform that is occurring in the United States. You want to determine how this relates to international health care. Using the library, Internet, and other resources, conduct research and address the following:
- Explain how macroeconomic factors affect health care costs.
- Find comparative statistics for the U.S. health care system and the Canadian health care system. What is currently the major difference between the U.S. health care system and the Canadian health care system?
- By comparing and analyzing the Canadian and the U.S. health care systems, describe how financing is provided to both national health care systems.
Be sure to support your information by citing at least 2 references using APA format. (2 to 3 pages)
This course is comprised of a series of Individual Project assignments that will contribute to a Key Assignment submission at the end of the course.
You are currently working as an administrative assistant for a large metropolitan hospital. You have been asked to prepare an article for the hospital newsletter about international health care. The following are the items you have been asked to include:
- List and explain reasons why the health status of a country plays an important role in its economic status.
- Create a table that shows how the access, quality, and cost of health care are influenced by the low-income, middle-income, and high-income status of an economy.