Capstone Discussion 3
Question Description
Health Care Delivery and Cross Cultural Health Perspectives
Assignment:Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of a company having healthcare insurance for their workers. Isthis cost effective when we see a worker missing work for weeks at a time? What are the legal implications if one is not allowed to take as much time as they need to recuperate?
Expectations: 1 page, 3 cited sources from required reading
REQUIRED READING
Blavin, F., Shartzer, A., Long, S. K., & Holahan, J. (2015). An early look at changes in employer-sponsored insurance under the affordable care act. Health Affairs, 34(1), 170-177. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2014.129
Boulanger, R. F., Hunt, M. R., & Benatar, S. R. (2016). Where caring is sharing: Evolving ethical considerations in tuberculosis prevention among healthcare workers. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 62(suppl 3), S268-S274.
Chai, S. J., Mattingly, D. C., & Varma, J. K. (2013). Protecting health care workers from tuberculosis in China: a review of policy and practice in China and the United States. Health policy and planning, 28(1), 100-109.
Kilgour, E., Kosny, A., Mckenzie, D., & Collie, A. (2015). Healing or harming? Healthcare provider interactions with injured workers and insurers in workers’ compensation systems. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, 25(1), 220-239. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10926-014-9521-x
Laurence, Y. V., Griffiths, U. K., & Vassall, A. (2015). Costs to health services and the patient of treating tuberculosis: a systematic literature review. Pharmacoeconomics, 33(9), 939-955.
Li, Y., Ehiri, J., Hu, D., Oren, E., & Cao, J. (2015). Framework of behavioral indicators evaluating TB health promotion outcomes: A modified Delphi study of TB policymakers and health workers. Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 4.
Radonovich, L. J., Bessesen, M. T., Cummings, D. A., Eagan, A., Gaydos, C., Gibert, C., . . . Perl, T. M. (2016). The respiratory protection effectiveness clinical trial (ResPECT): A cluster-randomized comparison of respirator and medical mask effectiveness against respiratory infections in healthcare personnel. BMC Infectious Diseases, 16 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-016-1494-2
Verkuijl, S., & Middelkoop, K. (2016). Protecting our front-liners: Occupational tuberculosis prevention through infection control strategies. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 62(suppl 3), S231-S237.
von Delft, A., Dramowski, A., Sifumba, Z., Mosidi, T., Ting, T. X., von Delft, D., & Zumla, A. (2016). Exposed, but not protected: More is needed to prevent drug-resistant tuberculosis in healthcare workers and students. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 62(suppl 3), S275-S280.
Yassi, A., Adu, P. A., Nophale, L., & Zungu, M. (2016). Learning from a cluster randomized controlled trial to improve healthcare workers’ access to prevention and care for tuberculosis and HIV in Free State, South Africa: the pivotal role of information systems. Global Health Action, 9, 10.3402/gha.v9.30528. http://doi.org/10.3402/gha.v9.30528