To successfully complete this assignment, first read the following exercises from the Laboratory Manual: Exercise 23: Anatomy of the Visual System and Exercise 25: Special Senses: Hearing and Equilibrium.
Student Discussion Assignment
Briefly describe and identify the external and internal components of the eye found in your textbook using figures 23.1 and 23.3, respectively.
Briefly describe and identify the microscopic anatomy of the cellular layers of the retina.
Briefly describe the components of the semicircular canals and the vestibule, and their roles in static and dynamic equilibrium.
Write your responses in a minimum of 250 words in APA format.
Category: Public Health
Reflect on your experiences with literacy/numeracy issues in healthcare settings. Explain any personal examples you have seen where poor literacy and numeracy skills prevented attainment of good health. What recommendations would you make to improve communication where literacy and numeracy limitations are evident?
For additional details, please refer to the Journal Guidelines and Rubric PDF document.
Click the above link to navigate to your journal and complete this module’s assignment.
PHE 330 Journal Guidelines and Rubric:
Journal activities in this course are private between you and the instructor. Journal activities will allow you to personally reflect on your public health
experiences in relation to communication.
Guidelines for Submission: Submit assignment as a Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins.
Critical Elements Exemplary (100%) Proficient (85%) Needs Improvement (73%) Not Evident (0%) Value
Personal Reflection Meets “Proficient” criteria and
provides examples to further
explain personal reflection
Provides a reflection on
personal experience with the
given topic
Personal reflection is lacking in
detail
Does not provide a reflection
on personal experience with
the given topic
45
Recommendations Meets “Proficient” criteria and
uses examples from scholarly
research to support
recommendations
Uses personal and/or course
information to make
recommendations for
improvement on the given topic
Proposed recommendations for
improvement on the given topic
are lacking in detail
Does not make
recommendations for
improvement on the given topic
45
Articulation of
Response
Journal assignment is free of
errors in organization and
grammar
Journal assignment is mostly
free of errors of organization
and grammar which are
marginal and rarely interrupt
the flow
Journal assignments contain
errors of organization and
grammar but are limited
enough so that assignments can
be understood
Journal assignment contains
errors of organization and
grammar making the journal
difficult to understand
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Required Resources
Textbook: Essentials of public health communication, Chapters 6 and 7
Library Article: Self-Affirmation and the Biased Processing of Threatening Health-Risk Information opens in new window
Read this article about the effect of self-affirmation on health.
This resource will help with the completion of this module’s discussion.
Reading: Optimizing Tailored Communications for Health Risk Assessment: A Randomized Factorial Experiment of the Effects of Expectancy Priming, Autonomy Support, and Exemplification opens in new window
Read this article that discusses the promotion of enhanced user engagement, self-efficacy, and behavioral intentions for engaging in healthy behaviors using tailored health communications. This resource will help with the completion of this module’s discussion.
Reading: Health Literacy and Early Insights During a Pandemic opens in new window
Read this Shapiro Library article that discusses how utilizing a health literacy lens supports health communications that enable or hinder access to health information, comprehension, and action. This resource will help with the completion of this module’s discussion
Module 4 – Who is Poor? – Week 5
Week 5 Overview
This week we will begin to understand some of the demographics of poverty and how it affects different groups within society.
After completing this module, students should be able to:
Describe the effects of social stratification on various categories of people who are poor
Identify social processes of inequality that affect poverty
Challenge preconceived ideas about the categories of people who are more or less likely to be poor
Instructions
1: Watch the Who is Poor? PowerPoint lecture https://memphis.instructuremedia.com/lti-app/embed…
2: Read Mick articles: Thompson, Bauer & Ramirez, Feeding America, Potts, Sanders and Livingston
3: Upload Homework Assignment 4
This is the Dropbox folder for your fourth homework assignment from the Mick textbook. You should have answered ONE of the Analyze questions for EACH of the six assigned articles: Thompson, Bauer & Ramirez, Feeding America, Potts, Sanders and Livingston. Be sure that you have followed the example and clearly listed the question you are answering and which article it corresponds to. Your response to each question should contain no fewer than five complete, grammatically-correct sentences to be accepted for credit.
:Review the PowerPoint of Discussion questions for the week’s articles
Download PovertyLecture4WhoIsPoor.pptx
Download 2019 Memphis Poverty Fact Sheet.pdf
Download Sociology of Poverty Discussion PPT Week 6.pptx
5:Post in at least two of the Discussions for the week and reply to some of your classmates
Week 5 – Respond to 2 articles
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For this Discussion, respond to one of the prompts from the Discussion PPT for two of this week’s articles for a total of two responses of a minimum of five sentences each. State the name of the article’s author(s) and copy/paste in the prompt from the Discussion PPT that you want to respond to. Then, type your response beneath it. You may put both in one reply or you may make two replies if you prefer. Just be very clear which content answers which prompt and what article that prompt is from. There is sometimes overlap with the homework, so be sure to answer different questions. Each prompt’s response will count for five points.
Remember, your posts must include well-thought-out answers to the posted questions as well as a familiarity with the assigned material. Posts should use correct grammar and spelling and students should refrain from using “text-speak” in the course. Your post should contain no fewer than five complete sentences in answer to the prompt to be accepted for credit. A sentence that states which prompt you are responding to will not count as one of the five sentences in response. Posts that do not meet these requirements will earn zero points.
In this week’s discussion:
Discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced the healthcare safety and quality initiatives set forth in KSA’s Vision 2030.
Describe the barriers that the COVID-19 pandemic has created.
Analyze the role of the healthcare quality improvement specialist to mitigate these barriers and drive quality in healthcare in the future.
Assignment 5-Value Based Purchasing/Government Incentive Programs
In Chapter 13, government incentive programs such as value based purchasing are discussed.
1. In your own words, describe value based purchasing and why the government/commercial payors developed this model.
2. What is one example of something being measured and later providers are rewarded or penalized for their outcomes with this measurement?
3. Why would it be helpful to measure this function/outcome? What would the improving of this function/outcome better?
4. Do you think value based purchasing is important to the operation of US Healthcare? Why or Why not?
One resource to use with the above questions is:
https://www.cms.gov/Outreach-and-Education/Medicare-Learning-Network-MLN/MLNProducts/downloads/Hospital_VBPurchasing_Fact_Sheet_ICN907664.pdf
Please research on your own and add cite an additional source that you reviewed to form your thoughts on our shift to value and quality measurement for payment in the US healthcare system. Please add at the bottom of your responses.