Lesson 4 Health Care Topic Professional Peer Reviewed Journal Article Summary and Opinion Paper

Health Care Topic Professional Peer ReviewedJournal Article Summary and Opinion Paper 

Students are to review peer-reviewed professional health care journals and select an articlerela

This assignment requires students to write a substantive summary of the article and integratethe textbook information or other perspectives, your opinion/viewpoint on the subject, andquestions you still have after reading the article (200 word minimum) to be posted by 11:55PMSunday of the Lesson Week.Please include appropriate APA citation and URL (permalink) to access the full article (not justthe abstract of the article). 

Please NoteThe article you choose needs to come from a peer-reviewed health related journal. PBS NewsHour, The New York Times, U.S. News and World Reports have healthcare related articles, butthey are not peer-reviewed journals. Points will be deducted in the grade for not using peerreviewed journals. There are numerous peer-reviewed journals that can be found in the AlverniaLibrary online database or by searching online. Some names of journals that are appropriate forthis course include (this list is not exhaustive): 

Health Science Journal 

Health Care: Current Reviews 

Journal of Health Education Research and Development 

Health Affairs 

JAMA Internal Medicine 

Journal of Health Care Quality 

Diversity in Health Care 

Harvard Public Health Review Journal of Allied Health 

Public Health Journal 

Global Health Action 

Public Health Reports 

Journal of Community Health 

Health and Justice 

Health Services Research 

Journal of Urban Health 

Journal of Health Affairs 

Psychology and Health 

Generations 

In order for me to review the article easily without having to search through the online librarydatabase or doing a Google search, you need to provide a URL/Hyperlink/Permalink. If you arein the Alvernia Library Online site and reviewing your article, in the far right-hand column is a Page 2 of 4button that says permalink, it provides the link to be copied and then you can paste it in yourpaper so I can easily retrieve the full article. 

It will usually look something like this: 

http://0-search.ebscohost.com.alvin.iii.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsgao&AN=edsgcl.520582143&site=eds-live&scope=site 

When pasting in the link be sure to hit the return key to make the hyperlink active. 

Mentor Text Example of a full 10 point assignmentsubmission 

The relationship between health literacy and quality of life among frequent users of health careservices: a cross-sectional study

 Quality of life and health literacy are two very components in health care. However, it is said thatthe link between the two of them is not clear. The amount of people who have low health literacyis a very high number and many of those people are frequent users of health care services andsuffer from chronic illnesses. This study wanted to find the relationship between low healthliteracy and quality of life including the mental and physical components of it, among therecurrent users of health care services who suffer from a chronic disease. The study includespatients from a larger project, VISAGES. The participants were identified by their primary caredoctors who used a software program to do so. This included 38 family physicians who used acomputerized list of the patients to find who used healthcare services the most. The age rangeof the participants were 18-85 years old and they had to have a chronic disease. However,severe psychiatric illnesses, cognitive impairment that was serious, and those who had aprognosis that was under a year were excluded from the study. Informed consent forms werecompleted by all participants of the study. The data for this study about the participants wascollected before they were even considered for the study. Health literacy was calculated by theNewest Vital Sign (NVS), which use an ice cream nutrition label with six questions about it.There was a total of 247 participants in this study. With the numbers that they came up with, itwas found that there was no link between quality of life and health literacy. 

This article goes against everything I have learned in this course and many others. However, itdoes have me thinking about some topics covered in chapter one of the text. For example, it isstated that hospitals recognize this disparity by conducting outreach and education programsfor the medically underserved (Sultz & Young, 2014, p.20). Here, they are talking about howthe costs of everything in healthcare has increased leaving many people without the properresources to get the proper treatment. Also, how preventative care is not the main focus ofdoctors. If we think deeply about this, many people who cannot afford healthcare are facing adisparity of some sort whether it be low income, their age, or their race. According to the reportfrom the National Action Plan (NAP), these are the people most at risk for low health literacyand overusing health services (2010). If health literacy has to do with the way people obtain,process, and understand basic health information (Osborne, 2013, p.2), then that means if theydo not have health literacy and they are unable to do so. My point is that if a person is unable tomanage their own care, how can they possibly have a good quality of life? With poor healthliteracy, potential life-threatening mistakes can be made. This can include someone not beingable to read their prescription correctly and overdosing or a mother not getting the properprenatal care. Because of their low health literacy, the quality of their life is being compromised. 

 URL/Permalink:http://0-search.ebscohost.com.alvin.iii.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsgao&AN=edsgcl.511314043&site=eds-live&scope=site 

References:Osborne, Helen. (2013). Health Literacy From A to Z, Second Edition: Practical Ways toCommunicate Your Health Message. Jones & Bartlett Learning, Burlington, MA.Sultz, H., & Young, K. (2014). Health Care USA: Understanding its organization and delivery(8th ed.).Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Publishing. ISBN: 9781284029888U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Disease Prevention and HealthPromotion.(2010). National Action Plan to Improve Health Literacy. Washington, DC: Author.Submission of this assignment is due by 11:55pm Eastern time on Sunday Assignments shouldbe created and submitted as an attachment in one of the following forms: (MS Word, rich textformat (.rtf), .PDF) as LastnameFirstName_Course Code_Lesson#4- Health Care TopicProfessional Peer Reviewed Journal Article Summary and Opinion Paper 

Grading Rubric for Health Care Topic Professional PeerReviewed Journal Article Summary and Opinion PaperPoints 

Content Paper should include a substantive summary in your own wordsof the journal article related to this weeks lesson topics.Must be a peer-reviewed journal articleMinimum 200 words (not including APA citations andURL/permalink) 

Opinion/Viewpoint Writing should demonstrate insight into the journal topic, criticalthinking and original ideas (no plagiarism).Use of supporting evidence and examples from resources tosupport your opinion/viewpoint from the textbook or otherresource perspectives and questions you still have after readingthe article.Appropriate APA citation and URL/permalink included at the endof the paper 

Clarity andStructurePaper should reflect college-level writing skills.Clear sentence structure and grammatically correct sentences.Includes transitions between ideas creating a nice flow for thereader to follow.Correct spelling.