Critical Assignment – Medicade, Medicare, or Affordable Care Act Presentation

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This assignment is due day 4 (Thursday). Late submissions will not be accepted.

Course objective(s) 1.1: Students will be able to identify how U.S. health care system components interact and shape the current structure; 1.2: Students will be able to identify major public health challenges facing U.S. healthcare delivery systems; 2.1: Students will be able to identify the inter-relationship between the health care delivery system and the public health system; 2.2: Students will be able to distinguish public health based prevention strategies from curative strategies utilized for prevalent health conditions; 3.1: Students will be able to relate the importance of agency involvement in population health initiatives; 3.2: Students will be able to identify key factors that influence the functioning of local and national health care systems; 4.1: Students will demonstrate professional conduct in oral communication, written communication, and punctuality; 4.2: Students will be able to identify Christian perspectives as they relate to the course.

Council on Education in Public Health Bachelor’s Competencies – Public Health Communication: Oral Communication (HCa); Public Health Communication: Written Communication (HCb); Public Health Communication: Communicate with Diverse Audiences (HCc); Public Health Communication: Communicate through Variety of Media (HCd); Information Literacy: Locate Information (ILa); Information Literacy: Use Information (ILb); Information Literacy: Evaluate Information (ILc); Information Literacy: Synthesize Information (ILd)

The critical assignment in this course is a presentation on Medicare, Medicaid, or the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

You should identify and describe major components, responsibilities, and current structure of the chosen health care agency.

You should critically examine, analyze, and explain the role of the chosen health care agency, in relation to U.S. health care delivery, and the resulting impact on health and wellness.

You should provide a detailed and well-developed explanation of what was learned, which includes specific applications/relationships to the field of public health, an analysis of relevant resources utilized and/or needed for U.S. health care delivery changes to occur, an identification of major public health challenges facing the healthcare delivery system, and an explanation of possible future directions for the chosen health care agency.

Your presentation should be academically sound and professional, strongly supported with a minimum of five credible/academic research sources, clear, objective, engaging, and contain both audio and visual components. Refer to the rubric scoring criteria for a detailed list of expectations.

You must integrate information learned throughout the course to fully address all aspects and requirements of the critical assignment. As a reminder, the critical assignment for this course and must be passed at an acceptable rate (defined as 70%) in order to pass the course.

All written submissions should reflect professionalism in grammar, spelling, writing style/format (one-inch margins, double spaced, typed in 12-point Times New Roman font), include APA 6th citations when appropriate, an appropriate title page, and be uploaded as .doc or .docx documents.