BUS4122 2020 November Unit 4 Discussion (dq1+dq2) Latest

BUS4122 Health Care Economics

Unit 4 Discussion

DQ1 Policy and Population Health

Introduction

Population health is both a social and political concept that has the overall goal of prolonging life, improving health, and enhancing quality of life within populations. These goals are achieved through health promotion, disease prevention, and other forms of health policy interventions.

Instructions

For your main post, choose one of the following "break out topics" from this week's studies in your Health Economics and Policy textbook. Discuss the issue you selected and how economics and policy play a role in addressing it.

"SuperSize Mine" (p. 180).

"The Cost of Obesity" (p. 188).

"Are Cigarette and Alcohol Consumption Sensitive to Price Increases?" (p. 198).

"Alcohol Consumption and Traffic Deaths: The Case for Higher Excise Taxes" (p. 199).

"The Question of Drug Legalization" (p. 200).

"The Impact of a Trans Fat Ban on Health" (p. 203).

Find at least one additional outside source from research to support your discussion. Include references in current APA style and format for all your sources.

Response Guidelines

Read and respond to the main posts of at least two peers as early in the week as possible to ensure the development of quality conversation and depth of learning.

In your responses, address the following:

Provide additional insight to your peer's post. The goal here is to contribute to their discussion, providing supportive information or possibly filling in some gaps of key information that would help to better support their points.

Find an additional supportive piece of research to complement the one provided by your peer.

Learning Components

This activity will help you achieve the following learning components:

Describe issues of population health in the United States.

Discuss the role of economics and health policy interventions in addressing specific population health issues.

DQ2 Socioeconomic and Environmental Impacts on Health

Introduction

When analyzing the health of a population, there are many factors that economists must take into consideration. Two of the key elements are socioeconomic factors (income, wealth, education, employment, and social support), and environmental factors (urban design, food access, clean air and water, safety, and culture).

Instructions

For your main post:

Focus on either socioeconomic or environmental factors and discuss their impacts on health. Share an example from research related to your factor to clearly demonstrate how health is impacted.

Discuss a current public policy or policy consideration and its relevance to your chosen factor.

Include references in current APA style and format for all your sources.

Response Guidelines

Ask questions and answer a question (see below) as early in the week as possible to ensure the development of quality conversation and depth of learning. Try to spread out your questions and answers among different posts; however, multiple questions and answers to a single post are allowed.

In your responses, address the following:

Questions: Choose posts from two of your peers and ask clarifying or probing questions related to their discussions.

Answer: Answer a question posed by one of your peers. The first priority would be to answer a question directed to your main post. If no one responded to your post with a question, you can answer a question directed to one of your peer

Learning Components

This activity will help you achieve the following learning components:

Describe the impacts of socioeconomic and environmental factors on health.

Discuss the relevance of current public policy or policy considerations to socioeconomic and environmental factors.