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Human Mindset

Social and economic inequality is detrimental to the health of any society. This is true when the society is diverse, multicultural, overpopulated and undergoing rapid but unequal economic growths, including immigrations issues such as

EMTALA action vs. Malpractice Action

EMTALA action differ from a malpractice action in the sense that it requires that a Medicare-provider hospital offer an appropriate medical screening examination to determine whether an emergency medical condition exists for any individual

Examples of medication errors

Prescription errors include wrong patient, wrong drug, wrong dose, wrong frequency, wrong route, transcription errors, inadequate review of ordered drug, and insufficient review of medication for appropriate prescription.Dispensing errors include improper preparation of medication,

Cultural Diversity in the U.S. Healthcare

      United States has continually to become more diverse demographically, with racial and ethnic minorities, predictable to become most of the U.S. population by 2042. A culturally competent system of care acknowledges and incorporates–at

Improvement of Children’s Health

According to Oregon Health & Science University’s description on origin of health development (n.d.), “David Barker, M.D., Ph.D., F.R.S., in 1989, first reported the relationship between birth weight and death

Ethics in Healthcare

Practicing ethics in healthcare marketing means deliberately applying standards of fairness, or moral rights and wrongs, to marketing decision making, behavior, and practice in the organization. In a market economy, a business may be

Computerized Expert Systems

Computerized expert system is a system used in an attempt to make a computer an expert in one specific field of study. Both facts and rules about how the facts are sued to make

Management and Leadership in Health

Management is the practice of dealing with and handling of people or products or services in a certain setting; while leadership is the ability to step-up above others via providing instructions to them. These

Public Health Behaviors and Data Surveillance.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (July 28, 2010). Public Health Surveillance Using Emergency Medical Service Logs-U.S.-Mexico Land Border, El Paso, Taxes, 2009. Jama Network: The Journal of the American Medical Association. Retrieved October

Qualitative Research

Qualitative research theory often equates with the methodologies used but this is a complex relationship, plagued by lack of consensus among scholars regarding how theory and methodology are related. There is an article Bradbury-Jones, Taylor, & Herber, (2014) that

The Focus Group Protocol

As a public health professional, it is likely that you will conduct focus groups as part of community health assessments. Focus groups are useful when exploring community issues and developing good survey questions. As

Community Profiling

Community profiling is used to classify the fortes, weaknesses, needs and problems of a community like, African American church community on the Chicago south side. By identifying these classifications of

Abortion and Contraception

Abortion and contraception have been a hot-button issue since the implementation of our constitutional rights. Just to point out that both are said to be legal medical practice in the

Effective Marketing Process

Effective marketing process puts in the right product in the right place, at the right price and the right time. Since products and services are interchangeable in most marketing cases, when you put in

Electronic Health Records

Health ethical issues are invariably accompanied by legal questions and the causes include society plus professional misconducts. When it comes to in-depth definition of what is medically ethical or moral

Ethical Issues in Healthcare Research

The current ethical issues faced by the healthcare industry in medical research, are mostly pertaining to the fact that medical research has now shifted to low-income, developing countries, from the developed countries, where it

Health Literacy

Health literacy occurs when health information and services created for the public match with people’s capacity to find, understand, and use them. AHRQ’s health literacy resources help health care professionals

United States Healthcare System

There are many advocates of U.S healthcare system, in terms of historical and quality delivery of care. For example, some advocates of healthcare improvement, quality and equality of care have come far away from

Marketing in Healthcare

Healthcare marketing is the introduction and improvement of healthcare management. Healthcare management is different and unique than any other industry management. This is because certain things need to be looked at such as the

The study of Epidemiology

Epidemiology is the study of disease occurrence and transmission in a human population, epidemiological studies focus on the distribution and determinants of disease. Epidemiology may also be considered the method

Theoretical Lens

           Theoretical lens in qualitative analysis is a framework that provides explanations, and methods of our experiences of phenomena in the world (Moore, 2006)). This allows us to see how we could form an

Breast Cancer and Widespread

One of the effective ways in tackling the widespread of breast cancer is to focus on the health-related causes of early breast cancer detection, which include making recommendations for the

What is Public Health?

Public health is a social science (designed for social change) of keeping, promoting and improving the health issues of communities. Public health supports healthy standard of living, inquire about public health diseases and deterrence

Organizational Management in Public Health

My organization consisted of management in one side and the lower employees on the other side. That clearly brings about organizational problems that usually lead to underproduction and deficiencies on aspect of employee engagement. 

Obesity

In the United States there are over seventy million adults that are considered obese.  Conditions that can be related to obesity include but are not limited to diabetes, stroke, and heart disease.  On an

Strength of Public Health Leaders

 I believed the best strength that public health leaders need for success is the imagination, action and proven qualities of understanding individuals and communities with their public health concerns. While the best way to

Public Health Intervention- Health Psychology

Public health intervention deals with the general concept of public health as more than just a system of theories and risk-interventional approaches. Bellah et al. (1991) suggested that we simply cannot separate how and why we approach

Diffusion of Innovation Theory (DOI)

Diffusion of Innovation (DOI) Theory, developed by E.M. Rogers in 1962, is one of the oldest social science theories. It originated in communication to explain how, over time, an idea or product gains momentum and diffuses (or

The Precaution Adoption Process Model

The PAPM attempts to explain how a person comes to decisions to take action and how he or she translates that decision into action. Adoption of a new precaution or cessation of a risky behavior requires deliberate

The Concept of Theory

My take on the concept of theory is beyond looking at the theory itself. It is likewise looking at the education behind the theory. For example, the concept of

What is Contingency Theory of Management (CTM)

Contingency Theory of Management (CTM) has been used in multiple research approaches, both qualitatively and in mixed methods approach to help in understanding leadership situations and interactions between managers and employees— employers and employees. Applying the contingency theory

Diabetes, Research and Theories

           Trans-theoretical Model of Change (TMC) has its limitation on individual’s behavior of change. Additionally, this stage model may not necessarily explain significant change process on how diabetic patients can stop eating high-fatty foods leading to diabetes.

Community Health Education Theory

Most nations have their own government public health divisions. They serve the health needs of their citizens and community members by providing public health assistance. The health divisions of the federal, state or local

Afrobarometer Dataset

           Afrobarometer is an African-based research system that examines public surveys of different issues relating to and across many African nations (Afrobarometer, n.d.). Some of these issues may range from economic, governance, environmental, health and social change

Confidence Interval

Confidence interval is said to be range of values showing lower and upper bound, in which, for example, there is blank % likelihood that the family income in constant dollar amount is between upper

Descriptive Research Design/Quantitative Variables

Descriptive research design helps in gathering information that will display relationships between variables without changing the environment (U.S Department of Health and Human Services: The Office of Research Integrity, n.d.). The use of independent sample t-test is an

T-test Highlight

T-test compares two means across an independent categorical variables. For example, my independent t-test is to test for any possible difference in comparison across student’s sex and their socio-economic status composite.

Statistical Significance and Null Hypothesis

Sample Problem Statement: A research paper claims a meaningful contribution to the literature based on finding statistically significant relationships between predictor and response variables. In the footnotes, you see the following statement, “given this research

Statistical Test and P-Value

A statistical test estimates how consistent an observed statistic is compared to a hypothetical population of similarly obtained statistics – known as the test, or ‘null’ distribution. The further the observed statistic diverges from that test population’s median

Alpha Level of Significance

What makes significance testing a fascinating and important case for investigation is that it appears to have dispersed not because of its appropriateness in various research circumstances, but notwithstanding of it. It may certainly be

Data Errors in Quantitative Research

Many of our today’s knowledge of facts and findings are being achieved via experimentations and the use of quantitative analysis. Some of the concluded data by other researchers may be called unaccepted value of error. However, some

Dissertation Oral Defense

An oral defense is an opportunity for you to demonstrate how much you know about your subject area. It is also a time for the committee to come together and, at the proposal stage, articulate their suggestions

What is a dissertation committee?

A dissertation committee is a team that works together to help you complete a scholarly work – your dissertation. Teams are great because with a team you can assemble people with different areas of

Writing a Dissertation

What is a Dissertation and when do I need to start thinking about mine? A dissertation is an original paper that critically evaluates and summarizes an area of research, identifies a problem (or gap in the research), proposes

Confidence Intervals in Research

As its name implies, confidence intervals provide a range of values, along with a level of confidence, to serve as an estimate of some unknown population value. Since it is rare to have access to the entire

Probability in Quantitative Research

Our daily lives revolve around things that we cannot control. Before we step out the front door we ask, will it rain today? What is the chance of getting stuck in traffic? Or better yet, will my

Community Involvement

Community involvement is an important part of social change- whether it entails planning to engage community participants or delivering community health assessment outcomes. The purpose of Yob & Brewer (n.d) research is to explore

Literature Review

I was especially entice by how the literature review is an essential part of a research process and a key component of dissertational process. It informs what is known about a research topic and what might benefit

HIPPA Regulations

There are regulations and exceptions involved in HIPPA in the use of partial medical records in study research (Krishna, Kelleher & Stahlberg, 2007). For instance, in the U.S, present privacy provision on the use of protected health

Data in Healthcare

Health care involves a diverse set of public and private data collection systems, including health surveys, administrative enrollment and billing records, and medical records, used by various entities, including hospitals, CHCs, physicians, and health plans.

Dissatisfaction of Care

Bouwman, R., Bomhoff, M., Robben, P., & Friele, R. (2015). Patients’ perspectives on the role of their complaints in the regulatory process. Health Expectation This research article explore the impact of dissatisfaction or complaints facing the accountability of regulators in

Bivariate and multivariate analysis

Schoenfelder, T., Schaal, T., Klewer, J., & Kugler, J. (2014). Patient satisfaction in urology: effects of hospital characteristics, demographic data and patients’ perceptions of received care. Urology journal, 11(4), 1834. Another peer-reviewed research article is from Schoenfelder, Schaal, Klewer, &

Delphi Method

As additional insight about Delphi method, there is the notion that construction engineering and management (CEM) researchers often rely on alternative research techniques when traditional methods fail. In contemporary research, the Delphi method is particularly useful when objective

Example of Quantitative Research Approach

As a quantitative research approach, it might be essential to look into other forms of data collection variables. A choice of correlational study using binary logistic regression is a viable option for data collection variables. However, depending on variability

Patient Satisfaction as Key Success Indicator

One of the most important quality dimensions and key success indicators in health care is patient satisfaction. One way to measure patient satisfaction is by determining the gap that appears between patients’ expectations and perceptions about services delivered.

Qualitative Research Approach

Qualitative research approach is a study that can use narrative reporting to explain and analyses behaviors of people and the implications of their actions (Erickson, 2011). One of the reasons some researchers choose qualitative research method because

Narrative Approach In Research Study

The narrative approach weaves together a sequence of events, usually from just one or two individuals to form a cohesive story. You conduct in-depth interviews, read documents, and look for themes; in other words, how does an

Healthcare Value-Based Purchasing (VBP)

Value-Based Purchasing is the linking of health provider payment to improved performance by health care providers. This type of payment systems account for healthcare provider both for the costs and quality of care they provider. For example,

Health Belief Model

One of the influential and classical works I found in the use of Health Belief Model (HBM) was the understanding that the rate in vaccine patients on hemodialysis is considerably lesser than the Healthy People 2020 targets

Precaution Adoption Process Model (PAPM)

I have come across theoretical model known as the Precaution Adoption Process Model (PAPM) with its limited explanations and usage in predicting behaviors. The Precaution Adoption Process Model (PAPM) is a convenient framework for assessing where a person

SERVQUAL MODEL

SERVQUAL model is a measure of service quality. SERVQUAL came into existence in the healthcare field as a result of wanting to understand people’s emotional and practical response to illness and the responsiveness of health providers and systems to

Steps for Annotated Bibliography

Cite your source in proper APA, MLA, or other required citation style: each of your entries will begin with a full bibliographic entry. For example:  Robertson, A. (2012). Why fairy tales are important. Psychology Today. (13)2, 210-222.Summarize

Patient Satisfaction of Care and Other Variables

Ali & Reisel (2014) investigated the relationships between patient satisfaction of care, nurses’ job satisfaction, nurses’ job security, and obedience OCBs, within specific private hospitals in Damascus and Rural Damascus Governorates. Cross-sectional surveys were

Safety Net Clinics As Gap Fillers

     Safety net clinics and other reduced-based clinics have long played the role as gap fillers in the provision of health services, and there will continue to be a need for such supplemental clinics

Research Gap on Patient Dissatisfaction of Care

 Desborough et al. (2016) provided an examination and through analysis of the relationship between detailed characteristics in general practice sceneries, nurse consultation, and patient satisfaction, which include enablement approaches. This study used mixed method approach to examine different

Patient Experiences of Care

Patient experiences through satisfaction of care continue to become important aspects of improving quality of care at clinics and hospitals. Similarly, these patient experiences become vital pieces of improving clinics and hospitals services through the episode of patients’

Resource Management: Dissertation

The strategies for managing resources, in dissertation include 3 major steps: identification of the related resources of dissertation, extraction of the relevant resources of the dissertation, and saving, storing and referencing

Research and Resource Management in Dissertation

Just like organizations, the acquisition of research tools, and resource managements (RM) are equally viable approach managing dissertation. As an alternate to the application of RM is the knowledge management system (KMS) to guide such management in dissertation.

Sample of Proposed Research Study

Proposed Topic “The Effect of Affordable Care Act (ACA) and its Influence on Utilization of Healthcare.” Proposed Questions 1.      Does the presence of ACA promote over utilization of healthcare that may result in increased health insurance premium? 2.      What relavant factors

Hospital-Acquired Infections (HAI)

Hospital-acquired infections (HAI), according to the California Department of Public Health (n.d.), are infections that patients acquired throughout the episode of receiving care in a hospital or other healthcare facility. California Department of Public Health.

Literature Reviews

The literature review is an essential part of research process, and a key component of the dissertation. It informs what is known about a research topic and what might benefit from further exploration. One

Steps in Research

Identify gap in research literature → Research problem → research questions(hypotheses in quantitative studies) → methodology →  Design → Measures → Analysis  Conceptual Framework and Theoretical Framework—-Problem statements, Objectives and Research Questions.

Patient Satisfaction

Another peer-reviewed research article is Schoenfelder, Schaal, Klewer, & Kugler (2014). This article talks about the important factors that can significantly be associated with patient satisfaction in a health specialized urology and to understand the point to which

Historical Alignment Tool

The purpose of the Historical Alignment Tool (HAT) is to support the creation of your dissertation prospectus by documenting both the developmental evolution of and the alignment between your chosen dissertation research framework, design/methods,

Positive Social Change

I take positive social change as a moral responsibility upon whom have the will and the means to perform such duty. As a lifelong commitment to assisting and helping others in need, positive social

Healthcare System In the United States

The costs of employing universal healthcare system in the United States is a major hindrance to its majority supports and implementation approach.  The advocates of U.S. universal healthcare system showed how it is time to take a closer

Some of the Steps in dissertation Writing

Some of the steps of writing effective dissertation include research topic, research design and methods, literature reviews, committee selections, research premise, IRB, research prospectus, conceptual framework and theoretical framework, problem statements, research objectives and

Qualitative Data Analysis

Qualitative data analysis commences with the onset of the data collection process and procedures. This means that your very first interview becomes the launch point for classifying codes (bits of data that have a

Social Constructivism and Narrative Inquiry

Sociology, communication theory, social contexts, theory of sociology and constructivism.The “meaning” of a situations or events that occurs to “understand” “conceptualize”. What is the meaning of “situations” “factors” or “knowledge problems” leading to “knowledge-policy-action solution?” Creating “stories” “narration” “understanding”

Qualitative phenomenological approach

Human science research, humanistic studies.What is the meaning, structure, and essence of the lived experience of this phenomenon for this person or group of people? What is my experience of this phenomenon and the essential experience of others

Qualitative Research Matrix

What I learned about the different qualitative research methods are the differences and similarities that each concept posed. Most of the qualitative research approaches exhibit different primary source of data, disciplinary roots, sampling concepts, different focus on modelling

The Institutional Review Board (IRB)

The Institutional Review Board (IRB) is an organizational body recognized to protect the rights and welfare of human research subjects enlisted to participate in research activities conducted under the umbrellas of the institution with which it is affiliated.

Possible Research Questions: Ethnography and Case Study

Possible Research Questions: Research on patients’ attitudes toward improving gaps and quality of care in the rural health centers (Ethnography).Research on nurses’ attitude and nature of care in the selected rural healthcare centers (Ethnography). Ethnography is a research method central

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