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Explain Plato’s concepts of equality in the abstract and absolute existence using his arguments on the immortality of the soul, recollection, and references to material objects. Do these arguments resemble Descartes’ use of a ball of wax to show that the mind is capable of a form of perception beyond the senses? To answer this question, you will need to show how Descartes views the human mind, including what can be doubted, what constitutes clear and distinct ideas, and how we can arrive at epistemologically certain knowledge. Show whether Plato and Descartes are both trying to prove that the soul or mind is capable of abstract, metaphysical thought or whether they are dealing with different kinds of knowledge.

The U.S. health care system has numerous known issues that affect the overall quality, access, and cost of services available. Describe the nature of the issue, trace the history of its development, describe what has and has not been done to address it thus far, provide a set of recommendations on what should be done to address it in the future, and discuss how major stakeholders should be involved to make your proposed changes.

health care issues

1.The cost of health care

Specifically, you should address the following in your proposal:
1.Executive Summary: Provide a brief overview of content of your proposal.

2.Statement of the problem: Define and analyze the major problems related to this issue.

3.History of the problem: Review the major developments in the evolution of this problem in the U.S.. How did this issue develop historically? How did we get to where we are now?

4.International context: Compare and contrast this problem in the U.S. to that of other countries. How does this issue in the U.S. compare to other countries? Is the issue more common here or in other countries and why?

5.Stakeholders: Describe the role of major stakeholders in the problem. How have federal and state governments and the health care industry worked to address this issue so far? What have been the successes and failures of their attempts?

6.Policy: Have the P.P.A.C.A. and other federal policies addressed this issue? What has been the impact of their action or non-action?

7.Recommendations: What should the government, the health care industry, and health care consumers do to address this issue in the future? Which stakeholders need to be involved to implement these recommendations and how? Provide a justification for why you believe each recommendation will address one or more of the problems related to this issue.

8.Conclusion: Construct a brief conclusion that highlights the key points from your proposal and describes the expected outcomes if your recommendations were to be implemented.

In today’s world of communication, technology is involved in almost all that we do.  In two pages (double spaced) discuss modern technology and how it is impacting one of the four challenges listed in the research study, “Communication: Ubiquitous, Consequential, Complex.”  Use at least two scholarly sources (journal and/or book) to support your argument

1. There are many journals and periodicals targeting entrepreneurs.  Research these publications.  Identify an article or case study that demonstrates the legal and ethical issues entrepreneurs face.  Provide the citation for the article and a brief summary.

2. Describe the business model you will adopt for your project.  Explain why you chose this model.

Does everyone have the same chances of exceeding in life based on their different educational background limited by their country and society?

NANDA approved Nursing Diagnosis which is utilized for a client with a psychological or psychosocial issue. Explain what you would see with a client with your chosen diagnosis both subjectively and objectively.
For each Psychosocial and Psychological Nursing Diagnosis explain in detail how you as a NURSE would care for this type of a client.
What resources might be available to them in the community and within your institution?

A review of Manchester Crime Reduction Strategy 2008–2011, making use of the concepts of community, evidence and policy discussed in Book 3, The Open University  Community: Welfare, Crime and Society

Describe an epidemiologic study relating to a disease (asthma, diabetes) or an exposure risk (asbestos, power lines) that affects humans. The purpose of this assignment is for you to review the relevant literature on the selected topic and to develop a research study that would address the most important questions. In writing this paper, you should provide a concise review of the literature and describe a research proposal for a study that will yield more conclusive information on the topic than currently is available.

1. Disease study topic: To be chosen by student. It may be any past, present, or future disease topic, exposure risk, related to individual, or population that you feel is justified research. Include review of the literature and the research proposal.

2. Study hypothesis: Your hypothesis is a working assumption. Typically, a scientist, in this case, epidemiologist, devises a hypothesis and then sees if it “holds water” by testing it against available data (obtained from previous experiments and observations) or experimental data designed in their own study. If the hypothesis does hold water, the scientist declares it to be a theory.

3. Type of population in your study, i.e., two main types, choose one and describe:
   1. Closed cohort (membership is defined by a given event, and no exit is possible)
   2. Dynamic population (where a given state defines membership, and exit occurs when the state terminates)

4. Study design:
   1. Experimental
   2. Observational
   3. Both

5. The timing of the observations:
   1. Cross-sectional study, i.e., the exposures, health conditions and other factors are recorded at the same point in time using prevalence data without attempting to reconstruct the exposure history.
   2. Longitudinal study, i.e., since diseases occur over time, we normally expect a longitudinal recording of exposures and diseases, in the follow-up study and in the case control study.

6. Define the relevant etiologic time window:
   1. What is the available knowledge of the conditions under study and what is the hypothesized effect of the exposure? Define the etiologic time window. For example, Sweet and Low cannot be the cause of bladder cancer in patients diagnosed with bladder cancer who have used one or less than one packet per day for the first time only in the last month, and who were diagnosed with bladder cancer within the last month.

7. Research study base:
   1. Primary study base – means you have defined the source population you wish to study before the case series is identified. The challenge is to be able to obtain complete ascertainment of the cases. To obtain complete ascertainment, e.g., study all cases within the population may be unfeasible because of costs.
   2. Secondary study base – is when the case series is identified first, and the challenge is then to identify the study base that originated that case series (which is, by definition, complete). Once you have the select case series identified, then you can define your research study base for this select case series.

8. Population sampling:
   1. Experimental study:
              Sampling the study base:

1. When the study base is sampled according to the exposure status, e.g., exposed versus unexposed, we usually talk about a follow-up study.
2. If we first identify case and then sample from the study base, the study is defined as a case control.

2. Cross-sectional study:

Describes differences between groups.

Used to analytically test hypothesis.

They are not as beneficial in identifying the cause of disease, but are very useful in evaluating populations and public health planning.

9. Data type:
   1. Primary Data – referred to as ad hoc data, or actual collection of data by researcher from a primary source or person.
   2. Secondary Data – referred to as antecedent data, is data collected primarily for other purposes and used in the study, e.g., data from medical files, registration records, and so on.
   3. Bot

10. Statistical Data:
    1. Descriptive statistics can be defined as those methods involving the collection, presentation, and characterization of a set of data in order to describe the various features of that set of data properly.
    2. Inferential statistics can be defined as those methods that make possible the estimation of characteristics of a population or the making of a decision concerning a population based only on a sample results.

• Conclusion: Since you are designing a study and no study has yet been done, you will not have a conclusion. However, what approach would you take to assure any conclusion you make is valid, e.g., what kind of controls do you have in place to ensure your studies validity? What is the benefit of your study to community health?

 

 

The Apology: Letters from a terrorist by Laura Blumenfeld

In The Swerve Greenblatt tells the story of the survival and recovery by the Renaissance humanist Poggio Bracciolini of one of the most interesting philosophical works cum poem from Roman Antiquity, Lucretius’ De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things).  Greenblatt follows the dissemination of Lucretius’ poem after its rediscovery, using it as a case study to pose questions about the larger meaning of the Renaissance’s recovery of the past, and how ideas can shift culture.

Which of Lucretius’ ideas are the most significant for Greenblatt in terms of their impact on the Renaissance and how/on whom?  In what ways did Lucretius, according to Greenblatt, help usher in the modern age? [Optional]: Do you agree/disagree with his thesis?