...Demographic Paper Demographic Paper Axia College of University of Phoenix Health Care Consumer - Trends and Marketing HCS/490 Russell Wettstein August 14, 2011 Demographic Paper The targeted population that will be explored in this paper is childhood obesity in the United States focusing on children aged between two through17. The surgeon general has labeled child obesity in America as an epidemic supported by statistics that in the last 30 years childhood obesity has tripled. The two primary factors identified by physicians and experts in creating childhood obesity, are first that children are not receiving enough exercise daily and not eating the right kinds of foods. The combination of sedentary lifestyle’s and fast-food diets have created a whole generation of children faced with serious adult health issues such as heart disease, diabetes, and high cholesterol. In this paper the subject to describe child obesity and its general impact that changing demographics may have on the health care market. Also the paper will tackle many questions involving this issue such as why and how will changes in the demographics of this population affect health care. Identify two key health care-related challenges to this population, such as increases in health care costs, increases in prescription drug costs, or the need for in-home medical care. Describe how a chronic disease wellness program may affect the costs for this demographic, what do the demographics tell about the...
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...Demographic Paper Axia College of University of Phoenix Health Care Consumer - Trends and Marketing HCS/490 Russell Wettstein August 14, 2011 Demographic Paper The targeted population that will be explored in this paper is childhood obesity in the United States focusing on children aged between two through17. The surgeon general has labeled child obesity in America as an epidemic supported by statistics that in the last 30 years childhood obesity has tripled. The two primary factors identified by physicians and experts in creating childhood obesity, are first that children are not receiving enough exercise daily and not eating the right kinds of foods. The combination of sedentary lifestyle’s and fast-food diets have created a whole generation of children faced with serious adult health issues such as heart disease, diabetes, and high cholesterol. In this paper the subject to describe child obesity and its general impact that changing demographics may have on the health care market. Also the paper will tackle many questions involving this issue such as why and how will changes in the demographics of this population affect health care. Identify two key health care-related challenges to this population, such as increases in health care costs, increases in prescription drug costs, or the need for in-home medical care. Describe how a chronic disease wellness program may affect the costs for this demographic, what do the demographics tell about the marketing...
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...The Effects of Obesity on Mortality Hung Vuong HDCS 1300 November 14, 2013 Abstract This paper explores articles that conduct research on obesity and its effects on the health and longevity of the body. The articles vary in their interpretations of the data and arrive at different conclusions in certain areas. The University of Oxford’s research and Samuel H. Preston’s article focus on the Body Mass Index (BMI) to interpret data, while articles from the Scientific American and Paul Campos assert that the BMI has its limitations and that obesity is only part of a greater problem of lifestyle choice. This paper examines the articles in relation to each other to suggest that greater scrutiny into the subject of obesity should be taken to fully understand its effects on health and mortality. The Effects of Obesity on Mortality Numerous studies have been conducted on obesity and its relation to mortality, however contradictory results appear because different studies lump data in different ways. In Crimmins, E. M. (2011) a person is of normal weight if he or she has a BMI between 18.50 and 24.99. A person with a BMI of 25 or more is considered overweight, while anyone with a BMI of 30 or more is considered obese. Obesity is further subdivided into Class 1 (30–34.99), Class 2 (35–39.99), and Class 3 (40 and above). While the University of Oxford (2009) argues that moderate obesity reduces lifespan, Reinagel (n.d.) introduces a new study which report findings that some people...
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...| Our World and Health Care Delivery In The Future | | | LaTisha M. Green | HCA/24011/04/2012Vinod Sharma | | Demographics and disease trends have a big influence on health care and how it is going to be delivered now and in the future as well. The world around us is forever changing and we need to make sure that we are changing and evolving with it as well. In this paper we are going to discuss two things that are making us look at how health care is going to have to be delivered in order to take care of the aging and how to treat obesity as well. The objective of this paper is to bring to light some of the demographic changes and disease trends that have already happened and that is going to happen in the near future. These changes and future trends will reshape the nation in the years and decades to come. Demographics of Aging In the United States there are almost 40 million people aged 65 +. That is almost 13% of the population and by 2030 there will be more than 72 million older people. That will make up about l9% of the world population. That is just like saying that someone turns 50 every 8 seconds. Also each year more than 3.5 million boomers turn 55 and by the year 2012 America’s 50 and older population will reach an all-time high of 100 million people. According to the Administration on Aging of the Department of Health and Human Services: * The number of Americans who will reach 65 over the next two decades increased by 31% during this...
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...the Delivery of Health Care Services HCA 240 June 16, 2013 * * * This document will discuss how demographics disease trends affect the delivery of healthcare. Starting with current age composition of the United States population and how future changes will occur in the next 10 to 20 years. Next will be identifiable factors that support environmental and changing demographic trends. Providing examples of relevant diseases and how the aging trend will increase or decrease health issues and how to reduce health complications because of age. The current rate of obesity will be discussed and how it will change in the next 10 to 20 years. This paper will identify environmental and changing demographics related to the obesity trend; including examples of diseases related to this health issue. Explaining how this trend may increase or decrease health issues and how to reduce health complications. Last this document will discuss the future and how healthcare services will adapt to provide care for these trends and age-related health issues. * The current age composition of the United States population is based on two measures, estimates of the past and projections supported by assumptions on future demographic trends. Estimates gather information on existing data from several sources; whereas, projections assume what the future demographic trends will be. The current United States population is the world’s third largest population of over 311 million people...
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... WRIT 20100 APU February 13, 2016 Homework Week Two Reflection Paper on: How Junk Food Can End Obesity (Freedman, D. 2013) We are introduced to the author David H. Freedman as he makes a comparison between two equally wholesome smoothies. The first drink is from a Los Angeles health-food eatery, a 16 ounce of blended apple-blueberry-kale-carrot juice totaling some 300 calories for a supersized price tag of $9.00. Freedman ordered up a like smoothie a few weeks later outside Chicago with only 220 calories that tasted in a word “delicious” for a mere $3.00; he thanked McDonald’s for the tasty treat. There was a courtroom like parade, of writers whose ink pen had protested the food industry complex and directed their readers toward natural and local sourced food purveyors, avoiding the highly processed and fast-food industry. Health food evangelists cried out against America’s health obesity crisis resulting from sugar, salt, and fat intake. Michael Moss’s “Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giant Hooked Us” was a #1 best seller on the New York Time and Melanie Warner’s “Pandora’s Lunchbox: How Processed Food Took Over the American Meal” and host of other voices for reform in what is on the tables of Americans. The...
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...com/locate/ehb Fast food prices, obesity, and the minimum wage Chad Cotti a, Nathan Tefft b,* a b Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WI 54901, USA Department of Economics, Bates College, Lewiston, ME 04240, USA A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Article history: Received 1 August 2011 Received in revised form 22 March 2012 Accepted 9 April 2012 Available online 15 April 2012 Recent proposals argue that a fast food tax may be an effective policy lever for reducing population weight. Although there is growing evidence for a negative association between fast food prices and weight among adolescents, less is known about adults. That any measured relationship to date is causal is unclear because there has been no attempt to separate variation in prices on the demand side from that on the supply side. We argue that the minimum wage is an exogenous source of variation in fast food prices, conditional on income and employment. In two-stage least-squares analyses, we find little evidence that fast food price changes affect adult BMI or obesity prevalence. Results are robust to including controls for area and time fixed effects, area time trends, demographic characteristics, substitute prices, numbers of establishments and employment in related industries, and other potentially related factors. ß 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. JEL classification: I18 J38 H20 Keywords: Fast food prices Obesity Body mass index Minimum...
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...Economic Issue stimulation paper July 8, 2015 HCS/440 Health Maintenance organization (HMO) is an organization that offer a wide range of health services insurance through a network of providers dealing with supplying services to they member. Self-funded health care benefit plans, individual and other entities as a connection with health care providers or hospital on a prepaid basic. In this stimulation I will review the company demographic, the HMO plans, an overview of castor Collin plans, reason why each plan could be selected and reason for my decision. Castor Collin health plan was founded in 1990 in Pantone, and offer Health Maintenance to organization. Castor Collin provide health insurance and health maintenance to enrollees through it statewide network of physician and hospital. Castor Collin currently has 10,000 enrollees throughout the Unites State and is looking forward to increasing this number. Two company are trying to find coverage for they employees and looking to see what Castor Collin has to offer them. The two company are E-editor and Constructit that are currently seeking coverage. Constructit consist of 1,000 employee and E-editor have 1,600 employee. Both of these company have provided the maximum amount they are willing to pay, the demographics, and health risk factor of their employee. E-editor are willingly to pay an annually maximum amount of $4,500 per employee, and Constructit is willing to pay $4,000 per employee annually. As a representative...
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...Yvancia, Benjamin Economic Issue stimulation paper July 8, 2015 HCS/440 Health Maintenance organization (HMO) is an organization that offer a wide range of health services insurance through a network of providers dealing with supplying services to they member. Self-funded health care benefit plans, individual and other entities as a connection with health care providers or hospital on a prepaid basic. In this stimulation I will review the company demographic, the HMO plans, an overview of castor Collin plans, reason why each plan could be selected and reason for my decision. Castor Collin health plan was founded in 1990 in Pantone, and offer Health Maintenance to organization. Castor Collin provide health insurance and health maintenance to enrollees through it statewide network of physician and hospital. Castor Collin currently has 10,000 enrollees throughout the Unites State and is looking forward to increasing this number. Two company are trying to find coverage for they employees and looking to see what Castor Collin has to offer them. The two company are E-editor and Constructit that are currently seeking coverage. Constructit consist of 1,000 employee and E-editor have 1,600 employee. Both of these company have provided the maximum amount they are willing to pay, the demographics, and health risk factor of their employee. E-editor are willingly to pay an annually maximum amount of $4,500 per employee, and Constructit is willing to pay $4,000 per employee annually...
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...Effects of Childhood Obesity Programs Debra S. Murray HCS/465 April 29, 2013 Elizabeth McNutt, FACHE, MS Effects of Childhood Obesity Programs Childhood obesity problems have been on the rise in the United States since the 1970 s. Physicians and parents have become increasingly worried about the effects of their weight on their future. This review will study the aspects of childhood obesity programs and how effective they are in showing children how to make healthy choices when eating. The studies I researched for this paper were the effects of programs in place to prevent childhood obesity. The purpose of the studies was to discover reasons children have the problem of obesity at a young age, and if they will continue to have weight problems as they grow older. This issue is very important for health care administrators to study because it has become a huge problem with children and their future. According to Birch and Ventura (2009), “Despite this problem, actions have been taken through implementation of both obesity prevention and treatment programs.” To date, prevention programs have focused on early school-age children. Many outcomes have been targeted and these include; changing eating habits and choices, increase exercising. The article also notes that current findings of the already implemented programs have produces little success in childhood obesity. The International Journal of Obesity also notes that few intervention programs have been developed for intervention...
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...Economic Issues Simulation Paper Health maintenance organizations (HMO) are organizations that provide or organize health insurance, self-funded health care benefits plans, individuals, and other entities for the United States as a liaison with health providers or hospitals on a prepaid basis. In this simulation a virtual organization Castor Collins Health Plans presented three HMO options to two organizations. I will review one of the company’s demographics, discuss the HMO choices, explain the differences in the choices presented, and why I chose the plan I chose. The Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973 required employers with 25 or more employees to offer federally certified HMO options if the employer offers traditional healthcare options, this is way today you are given more than one option for health care. Company: Constructit Constructit consist of a 1000 employees (550 men and 450 women) ranging from ages 26 through 42 and 60 percent of them are married. Constructit has to consider in the number of employees that would covers their spouses or children for insurance coverage. Thirty-two of the workers are physical active and 25 percent are moderately physically active. There are 170 men and 210 women approximately 38 percent with no health issues. Ten percent of men and 8 percent of the women are heavy smokers. Obesity rate is also a problem with 39 percent being obese causing a heavy absenteeism for reason of high blood pressure, diabetes, heart issues, and...
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...Steven R. Hawks, Hala N. Madanat, TeriSue Smith and M. Lelinneth B. Novilla INTRODUCTION To a large extent, the growing epidemic of global obesity can be explained by rapid changes in dietary patterns that are taking place in both developed and developing societies (Rigby et al., 2004). Specifically, traditional diets that were rich in grains, fiber, fruits and vegetables, are giving way to modern diets that are high in fat, sugar, and sodium (Popkin, 1994). The United States, as one example, progressed through the nutrition transition over a period of approximately 100 years and has now fully transitioned from a traditional to modern diet (Popkin, 2001a). Currently, the U.S. diet derives approximately 33% of calories from fat (Popkin et al., 2001) and the U.S. has achieved one of the highest levels of obesity in the world (23.5%) (Flegal et al., 2002). The prevalence of American obesity continues to climb at alarming rates (a 55% increase between 1980-1994) (Mokdad et al., 2003). Other countries are going through similar nutrition transitions, but at accelerated rates and often with more harmful results (Popkin, 2002). The global epidemic of overnutrition and obesity poses one of the major public health challenges of the coming century (James, 2004). It has been argued that the nutrition transition is an expected consequence of the demographic and economic changes that accompany development (Popkin, 2001a). But it is possible that some aspects of the nutrition transition are not...
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...1. Analysis of Research Report Paper Mary Ellen Strout HCS/438 Ann Impen April 11, 2011 2. Analysis of a Research Report Paper The article I chose was from the Annals of Surgery, called Multivariate Analysis of Risk Factors for Death Following Gastric Bypass for Treatment. I chose this article, because I did have this surgery done with no complications, and it is also a fascinating procedure and hope to one day work in this area. Pre operative mortality is the most feared outcome of bariatric surgery, it is reported to happen between 0.5 ad 1.5% of patients. In this article it identifies mortality fore either open or laparoscopic Roux-en-y bypass. The database is from Virginia Commonwealth university and was queried for patients who had undergone either an open gastric bypass (O-GBP) or a laparoscopic gastric bypass (L-GBP). A multivariate logistic regression analysis to identify factors related to perioperative mortality was performed. The factors examined included was age, gender, body mass index, preoperative weight, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, sleep apnea, obesity hypoventilation syndrome, venous 3. Analysis of a Research Report Article stasis ulcers, intestinal leak, small bowel obstruction, and pulmonary embolus. The data was found to find independent factors related to early death. Early death was defined as death that occurs within 30 days of the initial procedure or as a direct result of a complication of the original procedure (Annals...
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...Disease Trends and the Delivery of Health Care Services Paper Johnny Williams III Hca/240 September 29, 2013 Jessica Grippo Johnny Williams III HCA/240 Week Eight September 29, 2013 Jessica Grippo Aging What the current age composition of the U.S. population looks like. Today the age composition is made up of about 12.9% of the American population. This means that there are 1 and every 8 persons in America that are elderly. Americans are living longer than that of the past with the baby boomers being a generation that have been able to celebrate seeing their 60th Birthday. The current age composition of the U.S. population will increase drastically in the next 20 years is that the will be such an increase that it will no longer be the 1 to every 8. It has been projected the by year of 2030 the population of elderly is going to increase and then will be 1 to every 5. It was also projected that people will be able to enjoy at least part of their life expectancy into retirement. The big change in the demographics is that there has been a decrease in the mortality rates. With the decrease of mortality rate people this is allowing us to have an older generation. Along with that there is another factor that also contributes to the growing aging population. This is due the lower fertility rate. The environmental factors in the older population also have a factor with the increase of life expectancy. The older population is more active than that of past times...
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... Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read the policies governing your current class modality. Course Materials Zelman, M., Tompary, E., Raymond, J., Holdaway, P., & Mulvihill, M. (2010). Human diseases: A systemic approach (7th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson. All electronic materials are available on the student website. Week One: Introduction to Human Health and Disease | | Details | Due | Points | Objectives | 1.1 Describe the relationship between the environment and human health. 1.2 Describe health risks associated with changing demographics. | | | Course Preparation | Read the course description and objectives.Read the instructor’s biography and post your own. | | | Reading | Read Ch. 2 of Human Diseases: A Systemic Approach. | | | Reading |...
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