How can the public be educated about Hepatitis C and the availability of its cure? (8...
1. What characteristics of the Louisiana Hepatitis C Elimination Program make it a population health initiative? (10 points) 2. The quality management cycle involves measurement, assessment, and improvement. a. What measure(s) are used to evaluate a population's health with respect to Hepatitis C? (5 points) b. What assessment(s) helped the Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) decide that a new way to pay for Hepatitis C treatment was desirable? (5 points) C. Describe the improvement intervention that LDH is using to...
Consider the medication Sovaldi. Marketed by Gilead Sciences for the treatment of hepatitis C, Sovaldi has cure rates of 30% to 97%, depending on the type of hepatitis C virus. In 2014, soon after the drug was approved, the list price for a 12-week course of treatment in the US was $84,000. For many representatives in Congress, this was an outrageous price, causing the U.S. Senate Finance Committee to conduct an eighteen-month investigation into Gilead’s pricing strategy.Now consider buying a...
8. Big Cure and Little Cure are both pharmaceutical companies. Big Cure presently has a potential "blockbuster" drug before the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) waiting for approval. If approved, Big Cure's blockbuster drug will produce $1 billion in net income for Big Cure. Little Cure has ten separate, less important drugs before the FDA waiting for approval. If approved, each of Little Cure's drugs would produce $50 million in net income. The probability of the FDA approving a drug...
Create a means by which patients can be educated about the differences between Crohn’s disease, UC, and IBS.
Create a means by which patients can be educated about the differences between Crohn’s disease, UC, and IBS
Hepatitis C is a blood-borne infection with potentially serious consequences. Identification of social and environmental risk factors is important because Hepatitis C can go undetected for years after infection. A study conducted in Texas in 1991-2 examined whether the incidence of hepatitis C was related to whether people had tattoos and where they obtained their tattoos. Data were obtained from existing medical records of patients who were being treated for conditions that were not blood-related disorders. The patients were classified...
1) How studying the liberal arts can help a person to became educated? Can you add sources, please. 2) The role of teachers and schools in the learning process , example and sources.
Is there concern regarding side effects or interactions that the patient should be educated about? How would you present this to the patient? Case Study: A student has recently graduated from college with a health related degree. She is now ready to pursue her career. A friend recommends that she obtain membership in the professional organization related to her career before starting her job search.
In a city in Northern California, the Director in the Department of Public Health, Alice, noticed that the county has a very high rate of hepatitis B among the Asian American population. Hepatitis B is a disease caused by the hepatitis B virus. The most common ways that most people get hepatitis B are sexual contact with a person infected with hepatitis B, exposure to needles, medical or dental procedures where instruments are contaminated with hepatitis B virus, or when...
Describe how Public Health initiatives to educate communities about mental health can be effective in lowering the incidence of high-risk behaviors and how could nurses be more effective in supporting such initiatives?