effect positive change regarding healthcare access H e a l t h M e d i c a l

a healthcare professional driven to advocacy, you must be aware of disparities of healthcare systems within and across borders. This course has prepared you to critically analyze a variety of health issues in countries around the world and to assess the role healthcare professionals and institutions or organizations play in both the delivery and improvement (or detriment) of a system. Ultimately, as an advocate for population health and promotion of service delivery, you will craft an analysis of health issues that will lead you to make recommendations on how to effect positive change regarding healthcare access, equity, and outcomes in a country.

Final Project One for this course is the creation of a country profile that provides a detailed assessment of the chosen population and its healthcare system. The final product represents an authentic demonstration of competency because by exploring healthcare across borders to better understand disparities and the impacts of economics, culture, and social factors on population health, you will gain a global view of healthcare necessary for impactful advocacy. The project is divided into two milestones, which will be submitted at various points throughout the course to scaffold learning and ensure quality final submissions. These milestones will be submitted in Modules Two and Four. The final product will be submitted in Module Six.

In this assignment, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following course outcomes:

 Assess the impact of economic, social, and cultural factors on communities and healthcare organizations in the United States and internationally

 Determine the role and influence of key international organizations and stakeholders in promoting global health, service delivery, and healthcare policy

 Analyze data from global and local health organizations for informing health initiative recommendations

Prompt

For this project, choose a country (other than the United States) and assess its population health and healthcare system. Your country profile should address the impacts of economics, culture, and social factors on population health. You will choose three areas of health study to examine in detail for your country. These areas must be approved by your instructor.

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Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

I. Introduction

A. State the purpose of the country profile and explain why you chose to write about this country in particular.

B. Identify appropriate details needed for an analysis of the state of healthcare in your chosen country. Your discussion should include but is not

limited to population, type of government and the state of governmental affairs, geographic location, and climate.

II. General State of Healthcare

A. Determine the main health-related issues in the country through an assessment of its recent history and current events for indicators of the

state of healthcare affairs in the country, using data from a reputable health organization as a starting point for your research.

B. Evaluate the country’s current structure for providing healthcare to its populations to determine whether the existing structure is sufficient for

supporting healthcare improvements.

III. Health Study: Identify three major areas of health study within the country for your analysis. You should have a section for each topic in your country profile, and each section should address the following elements:

A. Explain the significance and impact of the issue within the country, using your research as support.

B. Identify the populations impacted most by the issue and explain how they are impacted. Include a consideration of why these populations are

affected in your response.

C. Assess the impact that social and cultural factors have on the populations vulnerable to the issue. Include in your assessment how these factors

may affect the populations’ vulnerability to the issue.

D. Assess the impact that economic factors have on the populations affected by the issue. Include in your assessment how these factors may affect

the populations’ vulnerability to the issue.

E. Assess the extent to which any current actions taken by organizations or governments are helping address the issue. If nothing is being done to

address the issue, explain why.

F. Determine the influence of major stakeholders and organizations—national and international—that play a role in the healthcare environment of

the country.

G. Recommend an intervention or improvement to an action and justify how it could help address the issue.

IV. Conclusions

A. Summarize the implications of each issue identified in your country profile and your overall recommendations for global health and health

practitioners as related to the issues.

B. Synthesize how the three recommendations you made for the identified issues could be used to inform a larger, broader solution to both the

chosen country’s overall health-related issues and the contributing factors of the country’s health challenges.