Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) For this Assignment, you will examine one type of health care setting established specifically for populations: Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs). FQHCs are government-funded, state-run facilities designated to meet the needs of specific groups of people including low-income populations. An FQHC is a reimbursement designation from the Bureau of Primary […]

For this Assignment, you will complete your fourth milestone related to your Final Project – Milestone 4. These milestones reflect insights on various topics related to disease management and population health and help prepare you for your Final Project Submission in Week 10. This milestone incorporates topics from previous weeks on risks and behaviors related […]

Communicating the Importance of Cancer Prevention and Treatment Consider the two individuals from the week’s introduction: Claudia and Wayne. Both are at risk of cancer, yet both most likely differ in terms of their genetics and behaviors that might contribute to their likelihood of contracting cancer. Would the same communication efforts be successful with both […]

Work–Life Balance Program Proposal Adults in most developed countries work many hours a week but perhaps nowhere as much as in the United States. According to the Center for American Progress, the United States is one of the only developed countries that does not set a maximum number of hours for the workweek. A large […]

For your Discussion, you explored the stages of prevention as they applied to individuals. Health administrators and educators also need to consider stages of prevention in managing the care of populations, as well. Just as with individuals, as less prevention efforts are put in place and the longer populations go without proper treatments for diseases […]

For this assignment, you complete Milestone 2 of your Final Project. This milestone incorporates feedback from Week 1 on Milestone 1, but focuses more on the theory/model you have chosen to serve as a framework for your chronic disease or condition on a population level. For this milestone, you explain your health theory/model in more […]

Letter to the Editor Persuasive writing is a skill developed over time. Population health is often tasked with educating the public and potentially persuading others to participate in health programs, adopt a new behavior, or even eliminate a behavior. It is often the role of the health practitioner to persuade others to participate and/or change. […]

As a health administrator and health educator, throughout your career you will likely develop programs to address the needs of populations. For this course, you will complete a Final Project that will expose you to this common practice and will allow you to develop your skills in a simulation of a real-life scenario. You will […]

1.            List four triggers for a schedule review.   2.            Describe the schedule control process in relation to managing project time.   3.            Describe what is entailed in performance reviews.   4.            List five documents […]

1.            Describe the activity definition process.   2.            List four components you would expect to find in a Work Breakdown Structure   3.            What is the difference between an activity list and a WBS?   4.          […]