Health Program Sustainability

Sustainability can broadly be thought of as the continuation of the programs and practices that were implemented within organizations, systems, or communities after initial implementation efforts or funding ended (Blasinsky, 2006). Medicine is a service oriented profession which requires professional attitudes and a sense of empathy and caring. Medical schools recognize the merits of creating community programs as students, and many schools have incorporated it into their curriculum (Loh et al.,

taxation of its citizens. Examples of this type of system can be seen in countries such as Canada and Sweden, as well as our own Department of Veterans Affairs ' VA health system. The idea of a nation-wide single-payer system has remained fairly popular in the United States due to the popularity and acceptance of the government’s Medicare program. In MacDonald’s article, “Healthcare reform: Socialized medicine?”, he quotes Deborah Chollet, a senior fellow at Mathematica Policy Research in Washington, D

Some health care policy goals of society are delivery and financing of health care services. Health policy usually explains the movements engaged by governments; local, state, and national, to improve the society's health and welfare. It is a health care policy that stays more focused on discussing the health care needs of the majority of the population. The United States of America (USA) is the leading spender on health care than any other country (policy almanac, 2010). For years, health care

Quality Health Care for the Uninsured children in the United States in comparison to Health Care for children in Canada. Introduction: In the U.S. “Decreasing the number of uninsured is the number one goal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which provides Medicaid coverage to many low-income individuals” (The Kaiser Family Foundation, 2015, Introduction section). Despite the success of the ACA enrollment of millions of people with health insurance, the most at risk and pressing group of our population

Altuwaijri Dr. Fevzi Akinci Date: 05-01-2015 Introduction The Children Health Insurance Program (CHIP) was started in 1997 to provide health insurance for uninsured children in families with low incomes and above the cut-off for Medicaid eligibility. The law gave states the flexibility to design and build the criteria and the role of the enrollment to the CHIP program. The children’ s health insurance Program (CHIP) funded by states and the federal government. CHIP runs through a mechanism

Abstract Signed into law in 1997, Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) provides health coverage to approximately eight million children. This law encompasses families whose incomes are too high to qualify for Medicaid, but cannot afford the expense of private health insurance. CHIP is like Medicaid, it’s managed by the states, but different because it’s jointly funded by the federal government and by the states. The Affordable Care Act of 2010 retains the CHIP eligibility standards and extended

Access to health care is a key element in improving health, therefore, over the past four decades reforming health care seems to have taken center stage. Since stepping out of the shadows, the idea of health care as a managed competition has been evolving. The definition of the managed competition is that of “a purchasing strategy to obtain maximum value for consumers and employers, using rules for competition derived from microeconomic principles,” (Enthoven, 1993). In a world of health care that

significant revision of the U.S. healthcare system since the passage of Medicare and Medicaid back in 1965. The main function of the Affordable Care Act is to improve hospitals’ and physicians’ practices financially, technologically, and clinically so the health outcomes and lower costs. Americans are split, as they are with most political issues, on whether or not the act is a viable solution to our healthcare problem. Even though it has had its problems such as a faulty website and being thought of as too

growing rapidly, and will reach 3.4 million or 12.8% of the population. Eventually, in the next thirty years older adults will comprise of 20% of the total population due to the aging of 76 million baby boomers (Olson, 2001). Seeing that, entitlement programs and means-tested benefits, are presented, in order to bolster this increment of older adults. Accordingly, around 96% of the American workforce is secured by Social Security and it is likewise estimated that 58 million American will receive a total

Level Material Appendix A: U.S Health Care Timeline Use the following timeline or create a timeline of your own with eight major events, including the four provided below, from the last 50 years. You may change the dates in the box to match the dates of your events. Include the following in your timeline: Medicare and Medicaid HIPAA of 1996 State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) Prospective Payment System (PPS) 1955 | In 1955 the then Indian Health Services took a new shape as