HLT 418V Week 1 Assignment – Four Component of Health Care

Max Points: 150

Details: There are many reasons why a bill is introduced into legislation, helping a select group of people to make sure that everyone in the country is being protected. It is important as a healthcare provider to understand, how different bills effect the healthcare profession.

Select a current health care bill that addresses one or more of the components of healthcare. You will use three to five academic sources to write this paper.

Write a 1,250-1,500-word paper about how the bill affects health care services in the community in which you live. Include the following:

Summarize the components of the health care bill.

Describe the health care components that are addressed in this bill.

Who sponsored this bill? Who are the proponents of the bill and who opposes this legislation? What is their position (i.e., why do they disagree?).

Does this bill helps or hinders health care services in the community. Describe how it may affect allied health professionals.

Does this bill affect the health care and allied health care professionals?

Review the American Psychological Association (APA) writing style guidelines and resources located in the Student Success Center. APA format is required for most assignments, so students should become familiar with these resources to facilitate the successful completion of course assignments.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

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Four Component of Health Care

Introduction

The health care system in the United States is broken. It’s time we start fixing it, and here are four ways we can do that:

Poor diet

Poor diet is the leading cause of death in the United States. It’s linked to heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, and cancer.

Poor diet can lead to many other diseases and conditions—including obesity—and it’s one reason why many people are obese today!

Physical inactivity

Physical inactivity is a major risk factor for many diseases and conditions, including heart disease, diabetes, cancer and premature death. It is also the fourth leading risk factor for global mortality (though it has been declining), causing an estimated 3.2 million deaths each year.

Inactivity increases the risk of developing more than 20 noncommunicable diseases and conditions—a list that includes heart disease, high blood pressure and strokes; type 2 diabetes; osteoarthritis; certain types of cancer like colorectal or breast cancer (as well as prostate); liver disease such as nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), hepatitis C infection or chronic viral hepatitis B/C

Tobacco use

Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States. It’s responsible for more than 480,000 deaths each year, including nearly 42,000 deaths from secondhand smoke exposure. Tobacco use costs $193 billion in direct medical costs alone and more than $96 billion in lost productivity due to absenteeism due to tobacco-related illness or injury.

Tobacco products include cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products like chewing tobacco and snuff (snus). In addition to smoking cigarettes, there are additional risks associated with other forms of tobacco use—including e-cigarettes—that can increase your risk for diseases such as lung cancer and heart disease

Excessive alcohol consumption

In the United States, excessive alcohol consumption is the leading cause of preventable death. Alcohol is linked to many types of cancer, including breast, colon and oral cancers. Excessive alcohol use can damage your heart, liver and brain.

Excessive drinking also increases your risk for injuries from falls or car accidents; causes memory loss; impairs judgment; increases the risk for depression and anxiety disorder (which are common among people who have had a history of mental health problems); can make it harder to quit smoking cigarettes; reduces motivation for physical activity (it may increase cravings); makes it harder to concentrate during work tasks; lowers productivity at work…

These four factors are killing more people than chronic diseases like diabetes and cancer combined.

If you’re like most people, your diet is probably one of the most important things you can control. But what if it’s not? What if your doctor tells you that there’s nothing he or she can do for your chronic disease? Well, if this is the case and there’s no way to fix it—and eating healthy foods is one of those things—then maybe it makes sense for us all to start thinking about how we can get access to better health care ourselves.

A 2015 study by the Centers for Disease Control found that poor nutrition is responsible for more than 300,000 deaths each year among Americans aged 1 through 19 years old; physical inactivity accounts for another 120,000 deaths; tobacco use adds another 1 million annual deaths; alcohol consumption leads us into trouble with our hearts as well as other organs (like brains) so let’s just say no thanks when someone offers us a drink!

Conclusion

We hope this blog post has been helpful to you in your understanding of health care. Please don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions or comments!