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GAO Highlights (2005). Un-compensated Care. Retrieved from http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05743t.pdf.

Discuss how you would go about seeking the consent of participants.

• What questions would you expect from their parents/guardians?

• How much information should you share with the children?

• Should this type of study involve children given the risks of speeding the progression of the disease?

  DS 2-3 pages Times new roman 12 pt

  Be sure to provide in-text citation(s) and a reference list to support your viewpoints. Please use at least three (3) research sources (not Wikipedia, or fact sheets). Please do so in ALL subsequent submissions.

Each part of the United States has at least one ecological crisis based on location, biome, and industrialization pattern. For example, the Midwest was once a prairie with very fertile soil. However, when people realized that with the right watering and drainage system this area could become productive farmland, there arose ecological problems. The conversion of the prairie to farmland is the root cause of many ecological problems in this region.

Regardless of what biome you consider, humans have likely had an impact on the ecology of that area.

For this assignment, identify the biome in which you live. The following are a few examples of biomes:

• Tropical rainforests: This biome has high average temperatures, high moisture levels, and high species diversity.
• Prairies: The prairies have grassland-variable temperatures, variable moisture levels—depending on proximity to mountain ranges—and are mainly dominated by grasses and ungulate herbivores.
• Deserts: These biomes have hotter average temperatures, low moisture, lower species diversity, and a composition of species limited mainly to those that are adapted to hot temperatures.
• Temperate forests: The temperate forests have variable temperatures, high moisture levels, and higher species diversity.
• Taigas: These biomes have colder average temperatures, lower moisture levels, and lower species diversity.
• Tundras: The tundras have cold average temperatures, low moisture levels, and low species diversity.
• Coral reefs: These biomes have high average temperatures and high species diversity.
• Open oceans: These biomes have a wide range of temperatures and species diversity varies.
• Chaparrals: The chaparrals have higher average temperatures, lower moisture levels, and are dominated mainly by grasses and shrubs.
• Alpines: These biomes have low average temperatures, low precipitation, and receive high ultraviolet (UV) rays due to high elevation.

Using the readings for this module, the Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet, respond to the following:

• Explain how humans have impacted the biome in which you live. List the types of environmental damage that have been caused and the species that have been impacted.
• Describe the major pollution issues for your biome, and elaborate on the sources of this pollution.
• List any species that have become extinct in this biome.

Support your statements with appropriate examples and scholarly references.

Write your initial response in approximately 300–350 words.

Select a program that you would like to develop in your community or city based on one of the six most prevalent serious health problems currently faced by communities today such as poverty, health security, and communicable diseases.

Based on your research, create a 2-page report in a Microsoft Word document including answers to the following questions:

• Identify your chosen problem and why it is a health community concern?
• Identify how you will assess the need for the program? What type of data will you review?
• How do you determine the target audience? List any one goal and three objectives. What do you want to achieve when you develop the program? What will be the outcome? What is the purpose of developing goal and objectives?
• How will you get people in the community involved to gain support for your proposal?
• What realistic method will be used to market the program in your community? Keep in mind the location, transportation, parking, and type of building.
• How will you implement the program? What type of “best practice” strategy will you include in your program?
• What type of feedback will you gather to analyze, if the program was successful? Why accurate feedback is critical to make certain, the program is a success? How will you collect objective data?

Provide at least two scholarly resources taken from the South University Online Library to support your efforts and topic.

Support your responses with examples.

Cite any sources in APA format.

Capacity management in businesses is a function of their operations and environment. In today’s business world, evaluating and managing capacities is becoming significantly more difficult. Therefore, managers need to do a balancing act to reduce costs and effectively utilize available capacities.

Using the online library resources and the Internet, research capacity management.

Then respond to the following:

• Which type of operation has a more difficult time managing capacities: an environment supporting standardized products or one supporting customized products? Why? State your reason(s) and provide examples.

After your initial post, discuss the following:

• Among other decisions an operations manager makes, the one pertaining to capacities is the most critical. Why is it considered a critical decision? Which area do you think is more challenging as it pertains to capacity planning? Make sure your answer addresses the productivity aspect as well as the uncertainty element.
• Briefly describe how uncertainty affects capacity decisions.
• Why is capacity planning for a service more challenging than it is for a goods producer?
• How do capacity decisions affect productivity?

Write your initial response in 200 to 300 words. Give examples in support of your responses, be sure to include numerical examples where required. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

Capacity management in businesses is a function of their operations and environment. In today’s business world, evaluating and managing capacities is becoming significantly more difficult. Therefore, managers need to do a balancing act to reduce costs and effectively utilize available capacities.

Using the online library resources and the Internet, research capacity management.

Then respond to the following:

• Which type of operation has a more difficult time managing capacities: an environment supporting standardized products or one supporting customized products? Why? State your reason(s) and provide examples.

After your initial post, discuss the following:

• Among other decisions an operations manager makes, the one pertaining to capacities is the most critical. Why is it considered a critical decision? Which area do you think is more challenging as it pertains to capacity planning? Make sure your answer addresses the productivity aspect as well as the uncertainty element.
• Briefly describe how uncertainty affects capacity decisions.
• Why is capacity planning for a service more challenging than it is for a goods producer?
• How do capacity decisions affect productivity?

Write your initial response in 200 to 300 words. Give examples in support of your responses, be sure to include numerical examples where required. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

I need 4 Discussion Boards completed each being at least 350 Words and use at least 2 citations.

As a senior manager in a medium-sized but highly profitable equipment manufacturing organization, you and other senior leaders have decided to partner with another company on several projects of mutual interest. Your company has the financial strength and market strength to join the partnership, and you have negotiated a tentative agreement with the other company. Your company is in Houston, Texas, in the United States, but the company you are partnering with is in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The other company has some very valuable products and customers, it has an experienced workforce, and it has great brand recognition.

What are some of the cultural areas that you need to know more about before you make the partnership of the companies happen? Specifically, what might the comparison and contrasts be in language, religion, forms of address, holidays, other time off, dress, and food? Research the culture, with particular focus on the business culture, and determine what cultural areas you must address to build a strong working partnership, and discuss how you will address each of them.

Present your ideas in a set of PowerPoint slides intended as a summary for your company managers. Use the Notes area of PowerPoint for your narrative textual information, with restricted use of text on the slides themselves. Review PowerPoint guidelines if you are not sure of the recommended way to set up the slides. Also refer to the PowerPoint Lab in the Learning Center, if needed.

You should use APA reference and citation format for the sources that you use to support your explanation and argument. Place citations on the relevant slides with one or two slides at the end for your reference list.

                                                     ASSIGNMENT 1

Health behavior is the activity undertaken by a person who believes him or herself to be healthy for the purpose of preventing health problems (Kasl and Cobb, 1966). Healthy lifestyles, in turn, are ways of living that promote good health and longer life expectancy.

• How does a healthy lifestyle promote good health and a longer life expectancy? Justify your answer with examples and reasoning.
• Suggest and then briefly explain two theories that support this viewpoint.
• What are the various activities involved in maintaining a healthy lifestyle?

The work of Weber and Bourdieu contributed to a model of health lifestyle formulated by Cockerham.

• What are the various components of this model?
• How effective is this model in the study of healthy behavior and a healthy lifestyle in the present day?

ASSIGNMENT 2

Sick Role Model

When a person becomes sick, he or she may demonstrate a variety of behaviors. Some people like to be left alone while others may seek assistance. Some people will act well even when they are sick. They may even feel guilty for not being able to do their work or take responsibilities.

What are the four aspects of the sick role model (Parsons 1951)? According to Parsons, medicine is an institution for the social control of deviant behavior. Do you agree or disagree with this view? Why or why not?

What is the patient-physician relationship according to Cockerham? Which two sociological examples of the sick role, as evidenced by existing research, do you think are most appropriate? Justify your answers with appropriate research and reasoning.

Parsons, T. (1951). The social system. Glencoe, IL: The Free Press.

Complementary and Alternative medicine (CAM) —An analysis

“CAM therapies have been in existence for hundreds of years. While many of these therapies are commonly used in non-Western societies their popularity is increasing steadily. In fact, large numbers of American consumers are using CAM currently in an effort to pre-empt disease and disability or to promote health and a sense of well-being.”

(Source: Kirschstein, R. I., Acting Director, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health, AMSA, 2008.)

How effective do you think CAM is in comparison to clinical treatment and diagnosis? Justify your answer. Identify and discuss at least 10 types of treatments offered by CAM practitioners. Analyze and present at least one case that shows the positive effect of CAM and one that shows the negative effect. What is the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) role in CAM research? Justify your answers with appropriate research and reasoning and comment on the postings of at least

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Medical Sociology

Thirteenth Edition

William C. Cockerham

University of Alabama at Birmingham

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The US culture has a broad spectrum of religious affiliations and religiosity. As a result of interacting with people who share similarities, people seldom evaluate the main premises of other religions. This assignment will give you the opportunity to explore two religions that are new to you.

Using Argosy University online library resources, identify and research

• Two religions which are unfamiliar to you.
• Select two peer-reviewed academic resources on these selected religions.

Based on your research, complete the following:

• Compare and contrast these religions from an anthropological perspective.
• Describe the history of the religion. Be sure to include the following:
  • When and how it was first founded
  • Details of initial leaders of the movement and spread of the religion
• Explain the main principles of each religion’s belief systems, the religious texts—if utilized—and the significant practices.
• Examine the role religious leaders have in these religions as well as the roles devotees or followers play.
• Describe how the religions view at least three varying social norms or cultural issues.
• Examine how these two religions coexist in a globalized world.