For your second assignment you will be writing a traditional research paper.
The research paper should be a minimum of 6 and a maximum of 12 pages (excluding cover page, appendices, charts, and references), double spaced, conforming to APA standards. This should be a well written and researched paper utilizing your unique research from the previous weeks discussions and new research. Use of course content should be minimized.
NOTE: Research papers should conform to APA standards for a formal research paper including running header and highly credible and scholarly references.
RESEARCH INFORMATION:
In research you guided by a question which you as the author are attempting to discover and utilize facts that address a possible response to the question. Research is not a commentary or opinion-based format such as a New York Times op-ad or blogs.
While the topic is highly emotionally charged and has significant divergent opinions it is imperative as a researcher that you utilize facts, data and information to guide the reader.
Well formatted research papers contain at a minimum a background, facts/ data, analysis (discussion) and finally a summary or recommendation / conclusion that the facts led you as the author to express and guided the reader logically to your conclusion.
RESEARCH QUESTION:
What is the proper role of healthcare in the United States? Is it a service for sale or a right? What and why would you recommend as the next major revision to the nation’s healthcare?
GUIDING INFORMATION:
To fully address this question, the analysis may consider the following guiding topics:
What role is played by government? Consider the economic impact across the ecosystem of healthcare and the overall US
economy.
Identify and analyze current trends in healthcare, including information technology, biotechnology, smart phones, health informatics, and other relevant technologies in the context of the overall US healthcare system. Address the impact of various stakeholders and influencers. How do education, workforce availability, and human capital issues affect healthcare? Identify key factors driving or limiting the further growth of healthcare. How do the social determinants of health impact? What other external factors might influence healthcare? What role does globalization play in the health care delivery model? What other healthcare models are successful or unsuccessful and why? Deliberate on the roles of professional obligation and ethics. Consider Western culture and economic structures in relation to health care. (Capitalism,
consumerism, individual freedoms, religious beliefs, mortality beliefs etc.)
In a well written and well researched paper attempt to guide the reader through a logical analysis of the research question and your point of view based on the facts. In conclusion make a recommendation based on these facts / research as a change in HEALTH POLICY which the government could enact.
The U.S. Healthcare System
HCAD 620
Research Paper
INSTRUCTIONS: For your second assignment you will be writing a traditional research paper.
The research paper should be a minimum of 6 and a maximum of 12 pages (excluding cover page,
appendices, charts, and references), double spaced, conforming to APA standards. This should be a
well written and researched paper utilizing your unique research from the previous weeks
discussions and new research. Use of course content should be minimized.
NOTE: Research papers should conform to APA standards for a formal research paper including running
header and highly credible and scholarly references.
RESEARCH INFORMATION:
In research you guided by a question which you as the author are attempting to discover and
utilize facts that address a possible response to the question. Research is not a commentary
or opinion-based format such as a New York Times op-ad or blogs.
While the topic is highly emotionally charged and has significant divergent opinions it is
imperative as a researcher that you utilize facts, data and information to guide the reader.
Well formatted research papers contain at a minimum a background, facts/ data, analysis
(discussion) and finally a summary or recommendation / conclusion that the facts led you as
the author to express and guided the reader logically to your conclusion.
RESEARCH QUESTION:
What is the proper role of healthcare in the United States? Is it a service for sale or a
right? What and why would you recommend as the next major revision to the nation’s
healthcare?
GUIDING INFORMATION:
To fully address this question, the analysis may consider the following guiding topics:
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What role is played by government?
Consider the economic impact across the ecosystem of healthcare and the overall US
economy.
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Identify and analyze current trends in healthcare, including information technology,
biotechnology, smart phones, health informatics, and other relevant technologies in the
context of the overall US healthcare system.
Address the impact of various stakeholders and influencers.
How do education, workforce availability, and human capital issues affect healthcare?
Identify key factors driving or limiting the further growth of healthcare.
How do the social determinants of health impact?
What other external factors might influence healthcare?
What role does globalization play in the health care delivery model?
What other healthcare models are successful or unsuccessful and why?
Deliberate on the roles of professional obligation and ethics.
Consider Western culture and economic structures in relation to health care. (Capitalism,
consumerism, individual freedoms, religious beliefs, mortality beliefs etc.)
In a well written and well researched paper attempt to guide the reader through a logical
analysis of the research question and your point of view based on the facts. In conclusion
make a recommendation based on these facts / research as a change in HEALTH POLICY
which the government could enact.