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Health and medical vulnerability varies by population, community, neighborhood, even by individual experiences. Many in public health are aware of an interactive Robert Wood Johnson Foundation tool. that can predict one's life expectancy by their zip code. However, being aware of such tools and understanding the multifaceted dynamics of what contributes to levels of vulnerability is vastly different.
Vulnerable population: Underserved Children: Preventing Chronic Illness and Promoting Health
ASSIGNMENT 1-
Read Part 2 PRACTICE chapters 9, 10, 17, and 18 keeping the vulnerable population you selected in week one as your focus.
Select one discussion question from each of the four chapters.
Post your thorough answer (5-6 sentences minimum) to the questions using your selected vulnerable population as the focus for your response. Restate your selected vulnerable population by noting the chapter number along with the population name.
Chapter 9, question 3: Discuss ways that your clinic assigns roles for social screening, referral, and follow-up. Are individual team members held accountable for their activities to screen for and address social determinants of health? If so, how? If not, why not?
Chapter 10, question 1: Discuss clinical experiences you have had with vulnerable patients in which the presence or absence of strategies such as building a therapeutic alliance, eliciting patients' narratives, and assessing for vulnerabilities and/or strengths influenced the process and perhaps the outcome of their care.
Chapter 17, question 2: Given the widespread implementation of online patient portals, what do you think are the greatest challenges for use among (1) vulnerable patients and (2) providers in safety-net systems? How do you think the initial challenges with adoption will differ from longer term engagement/use? Get instant homework help from top tutors!
Chapter 18, question 1: A health plan decides to improve its flu shot rate by sending postcard reminders to all elderly patients. How might this approach improve flu vaccination rates? How might it fail? What else would you like to know before implementing this approach? After discussing this question, see Schneider, for a discussion of managed care plans and African-American flu disparities.
Assignment 2
REFERENCE MATERIAL:
Health and medical vulnerability varies by population, community, neighborhood, even by individual experiences. Many in public health are aware of an interactive Robert Wood Johnson Foundation tool. that can predict one's life expectancy by their zip code. However, being aware of such tools and understanding the multifaceted dynamics of what contributes to levels of vulnerability is vastly different.
If you did not explore the RWJF zip code tool. before engaging in our week 1 Discussion Assignment, I again invite you to do so.
ASSIGNMENT-
Read Part 2 PRACTICE chapters 14 and 15 keeping the vulnerable population you selected in week one as your focus.
Select one discussion question from each of the two chapters.
Post your thorough answer (5-6 sentences minimum) to the questions using your selected vulnerable population as the focus for your response. Restate your selected vulnerable population by noting the chapter number along with the population name.
Chapter 14, question 1: Discuss some of the barriers to effective cross-cultural communication at the patient, clinician, and health systems level. What are some strategies for addressing systems level barriers?
Chapter 15, question 2: Discuss how you will integrate two communication strategies introduced in this chapter into next patient interaction.
References
King, T. E., & Wheeler, M. B. (2016). Medical Management of vulnerable and underserved patients: Principles, practice, and populations. McGraw Hill Education.