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Team Environment, Leadership in Healthcare setting and What could be Communities of Practice (CoPs)

Gauging consistency among team member roles is important, not only in the healthcare sector, but among others. For example, if one team member has consistently been responsible for a certain type of task, which has been done effectively and efficiently in a group, then the skills needed to accomplish the said task are part of […]

Using Medicare Payment Policy To Transform The Health System: A Framework For Improving Performance- A Journal Review.

Prepared by: Abubakar Binji Synopsis:             The concern of providing pleasing medical overhaul to all the citizens of the United States at costs which can be focused and succeeded is an unrelenting one. Presently, many Americans do not receive medical care that is satisfactory both in quantity or quality or equality, and the costs of […]

The Two Challenges to Addressing The Upstream Risk and Protective Determinants of Health In Current Health Policies and Programs In The U.S. and/or In Other Countries

Many quality improvement techniques—including the promotion of evidence-based treatments and well-coordinated care—can improve health outcomes. Their influence is often limited by factors beyond clinicians’ control, such as patients’ education, employment, and social support. To address the social and economic factors that affect health, quality improvement initiatives must reach beyond the traditional boundaries of the health […]

The Use of Concepts of The Developmental Origins of Life and How Health Can Influence Adult Illness

The concepts of evolving origins of life and health can influence adult morbidity in several ways. For example, it can influence the understanding of adult morbidity and the influence on the protection of adult morbidity. There is an account of evolving roots of wellbeing and adult disease. According to Oregon Health & Science University’s description […]

Child Health and its Impact on Population Health

The improvements of child health consist of communitywide analysis in finding improved ways of handling health diseases, like the chronic asthma.  According to MedlinePlus (n.d.), a United States Library of Medicine for health information and improvement, the chronic disease of asthma affects the tubes of human airways, when carrying air in and out of lungs.  […]

Healthcare Industry in the United States, and The Question of Structural Inequality.

As a healthcare leader, one may view health inequality as still on the rise in the labor market. Likewise, researchers may need to open-up critical conversations about gender mentality. Gender inequality can be referred to as “structural inequality.” This is because the mentality of inequality has built on the system for a long period of […]

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 and delivery organizations make information easier to understand and systems easier to navigate for patients.  I will say the National Action Plan to Improve Health […]

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 home. This is because there is no doubt the trends in U.S. healthcare industry is evolving, and thanks to policy changes, […]

Quality of Care and the United States Healthcare Spending

Addressing the quality of care in today’s era of health care reform is neither a top-down nor bottom-up approach alone.  This is because successful implementation of any health care reform law will be contingent on the ability of all participating parties ( ie. federal government, the states, health care payers, hospitals, industry, medical societies, physicians, […]

Governing Boards in Healthcare Foundations and Community of Practice (CoP)

The effective governing boards share long term vision and safeguard the interest of the shareholders, healthcare organizations. For example, the roles of the effective governing board of directors, in publicly held companies is governed in part by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and is designed to serve as a benchmark for management to protect shareholders. […]