Assignment: Community Health Evaluation
What is the purpose of a surveillance system? Provide two examples of surveillance systems (from your residential state)
What is one of the major applications of case registries (from your residential state)?
Initial responses should be no less than 200 words in length not including your reference(s) and supported by at least two references (aside from the textbook).
Marketing Intelligence and Marketing Research
Explain how marketing intelligence differs from marketing research
Initial responses should be no less than 200 words in length not including your reference(s) and supported by at least two references (aside from the textbook).
The Physician Assistant Debate: Which Side Are You On?
Many have argued that primary care doctors are given too much responsibility regarding direct patient care. The argument has been made that nurse practitioners and physician assistants should be utilized more effectively. What are your thoughts on this?
Physician assistants have long argued that they have the ability to provide as much as 70 percent of the medical services provided by primary care physicians at a much lower cost. Yet government regulations limit their ability to work independently of physicians. Explain what would happen to the level of competition in the physician services market if all the statutes limiting activities of physician assistants were eliminated.
Initial responses should be no less than 200 words in length not including your reference(s) and supported by at least two references (aside from the textbook).
Case Study Critique: SARS or Marburg
For the Marburg fever case, you will discuss the major obstacles and difficulties that public health officials and health care workers had in controlling the outbreak of Marburg fever and the solutions they found to these difficulties. Your response must also include the following:
1. What is Marburg hemorrhagic fever?
2. How is Marburg hemorrhagic fever prevented?
3. What needs to be done to address the threat of Marburg hemorrhagic fever?
Initial responses should be no less than 200 words in length not including your reference(s) and supported by at least two references (aside from the textbook).
Food and Health
Childhood obesity as well as ADHD has been blamed on artificial additives. Choose one of these issues and present an argument either supporting or opposing these claims.
Initial responses should be no less than 250 words in length not including your reference(s) and supported by at least two references (aside from the textbook).
Ergogenic Aids
Using your textbook, APUS Online Library or other scholarly sources, you are to pick one Ergogenic Aid that appears in this week's reading material and present your findings to the class that offers a broad outline addressing:
A) The name of the Ergogenic Aid
B) The possible benefits and risks
C) The possible long term consequences (if any) of using this substance.
Initial responses should be no less than 250 words in length not including your reference(s) and supported by at least two references (aside from the textbook).