write a report of not more than 2000 words, about a work-related disease or injury.

Learning Outcomes:

The assignment will test the learning outcomes of the module ~

 

  • LO1: Students will demonstrate an understanding of human physiology in relation to work-related hazards, and the impact of different types of work on human health and wellbeing.
  • LO2: Students will gain practical knowledge of health surveillance and the control mechanisms required to assess the impact of work on health and wellbeing
  • LO3: Students will be able to define the factors that make some people vulnerable to work-related illness or injury.

 

Assignment Details:

You are required to write a report of not more than 2000 words, about a work-related disease or injury.

 

The material you use for your report will be a product of you researching the topic from legitimate academic sources. All of the points that you make MUST be based on these sources and correctly referenced within your report.

 

Your report should include the following information and you can use these sub-headings to help you structure it.

 

  • Occupations:
    • Indicate which occupation suffers with the condition/illness:
    • If you choose a condition which is suffered by more than one occupation, for example asthma, please stick to one occupation such as bakers as this will make the assignment easier for you.

 

 

 

  • Physiological data:
    • You need to discuss the normal physiology, for example what the organ(s) actually do.
    • Then discuss the way that your chosen condition alters the normal physiology.

 

  • Trends in the Illness/condition:
    • Indicate how many cases there are at the present time.
    • Discuss and, if possible, illustrate with a graph/chart if the illness/condition is rising or falling.
    • This statistical information can be shown within an appendix.

 

  • General Health and Lifestyle Factors:
    • Comment on general health and lifestyle factors that could make workers more vulnerable to your illness/condition or related conditions.
    • For example, if the disease is related to the lungs one of the things to think about is smoking, also you need to think about the wider determinates of health.

 

  • Workforce Safeguarding:
    • Make suggestions around steps which an individual and the employing organisation could take in order to protect the workforce from acquiring the condition in the first place.
    • Here you could think about; risk assessment, COSHH, RIDDOR

 

  • Measures:
    • Discuss any measures that can be put into place to lessen the impact of the condition on the working population.
    • Here think about; Health surveillance, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) mandatory training for example manual handling etc.
Discuss main industry vulnerabilities and market dependencies

You are a young entrepreneur who wants to develop and introduce a Personal Emergency Alert Device Containing Real time Location. The device is able to make noises to attract pass-byer attention and sending user’s location to the nearest police officer and their registered emergency contacts (family, friends,..).

 

Writing a 2200 word report ( don’t write introduction and conclusion) covering all the following aspects:

  1. Discuss the value proposition (10% out of 100% mark)
  2. Discuss main industry vulnerabilities and market dependencies (25% out 100% mark)
  3. Discuss the business strategy (25%)
  4. Discuss how the business is financed and what the revenue model is (20%)
  5. Identify and discuss who the suppliers of your business could be (10%)
  6. Discuss what kind of people the business should recruit (10%)

 

Please ensure that your report has a strong academic foundation including theory, empirical evidence and references. If you use material from case studies or company websites remember that these need to be properly quoted and referenced just like all other materials.

 

Discuss your growing understanding of qualitative and quantitative methods; use examples from research reports/studies to highlight how these different methods approach social issues

TASK back to top Discuss your growing understanding of qualitative and quantitative methods; use examples from research reports/studies to highlight how these different methods approach social issues; find through the library one qualitative study and one quantitative (they can be on the same or different topics) . For this essay you are expected to reference various sources to help inform your discussion of these two methods (use the readings, your text book and the library data base http://www.csu.edu.au/division/library RATIONALE back to top This assessment task will assess the following learning outcome/s: * be able to demonstrate a critical understanding of various research methods * be able to critically evaluate research reports This assessment task enables the student to demonstrate their critical understanding of various social research methods (Learning outcome 1). Assignment 1 – The grade range LMH refers to low med & high Overall mark and grade – /40 % PRESENTATION back to top The essay should be organised clearly and logically, and neatly presented. This includes correct spelling punctuation. Sub-headings or dot-points should not be used. Assignments must be well researched and referenced in APA7. Give a clear introduction and conclusion. Do not use long quotes. FormattingThe following are expected: * Assessment topic clearly stated * 12 point font * 1.5 or 2 line spacing * page numbers * Referenced in APA 7th edition * Submit only in Word format (do not use pdf or other formats) Word lengthThe set word length provides an indicator of the expectations regarding depth and breadth of coverage of the topic. It is always a challenge to concisely present the essence of what you have learned from reading several sources. Although you should attempt to stay within the word limit you may go over or under by 10%

Why is it important for a community nurse to do a windshield survey?

TOPIC: AS A SCHOOL NURSE

  1. Why is it important for a community nurse to do a windshield survey?
  2. What is included in the Windshield Survey?
  3. What are the overall roles of the community nurse (e.g. direct patient care, prevent diseases, well-baby assessments…)?
  4. Discuss the various settings nurses can provide care for patients in the community (e.g. schools)- be specific
  5. Discuss the various roles nurses can have in the community (be specific) – e.g. psychiatric nurse · the role of the psychiatric nurse is to…
  6. Be very detailed and provide specific examples Feel free to add anything else you feel may be important to this presentation

 

 

how to identify the information requirements of an organisation and design an effective and appropriate Marketing Research project to meet those requirements

Assessment Instructions Individual Proposal Learning Outcomes This assessment enables you to partially demonstrate the learning outcomes required for the successful completion of the module, specifically: To demonstrate an understanding of how to identify the information requirements of an organisation and design an effective and appropriate Marketing Research project to meet those requirements including: • Developing effectively worded research aims-and objectives • Developing appropriate and justified research and analysis methodology to achieve those aims and objectives • Identifying and addressing ethical issues and considerations associated with the proposal • Developing an appropriate research instrument for the proposal • Developing an appropriate timetable for the proposal • Identifying and addressing limitations associated with the proposal • Communicating this information clearly and effectively in a written report The Individual Proposal This individual proposal will build upon Assessment A where working in a group you designed and presented a research proposal based upon the information needs of a business presented in your allocated scenario where you represent a marketing research agency ‘pitching’ to win a research contract from that organisation. The Individual Proposal is an individually-produced 3000 word research proposal that explores the research problem contained in the allocated scenario. You will write a fully considered, justified and feasible research proposal for the key decision maker in the organisation that has written the brief. The intention is to plan a piece of applied research which will meet the organisation’s information requirements. It is up to you how to go about achieving this, drawing on your learning from the module. Your proposal needs to contain at least one example research instrument (e.g. survey, moderator’s guide), to be included as an appendix. It is important that you work independently on your proposal to avoid leaving yourself open to charges of academic misconduct such as collusion or plagiarism. 2 Scenarios Primark and Consumer Responses to Ethical Fashion Retailing A recent Mintel analysis has highlighted the negative environmental and social effects of the fastfashion industry which is responsible for higher annual carbon emissions than international flights and shipping combined. A number of fashion retailers (e.g. Asos, Adidas, Hugo Boss, H&M and Zara) have recently pledged to join the ‘circular fashion economy’ which involves sustainable practice at each stage of the product life cycle, including sourcing, producing, selling and extending or repurposing products at the end of their life cycles. Fast-fashion retailer Primark are perhaps unique amongst fashion retailers in that they do not have an online presence and until very recently have not taken any steps towards addressing consumer concerns and desires over ethical and sustainability issues. Primark are concerned about reports that consumers are unwilling to pay higher prices but have trialled a range of more ethical and sustainable products at their Pop-up store in Shoreditch. This trial has gone well, and the new range has proved successful. Primark have asked you to create a research proposal investigating consumer concerns, expectations and purchasing intentions around ethical retailing practice. The research will be used to inform a decision on whether Primark should extend this new range of products to its stores across the UK . Starter reference: Carrigan, M. and Attalla, A (2001) The myth of the ethical consumer – do ethics matter in purchase behaviour? Journal of Consumer Marketing. 18(7), pp. 560-578 Travelling with Pets In the wake of the Covid-19 Pandemic and the restrictions placed on travel, most Britons are expected to stay in the UK rather than venture abroad for their annual holidays next year. Premier Inn, one of the largest UK hotel chains is keen to exploit this opportunity but have identified that many British people often travel with their dogs as they often feel guilty about leaving their pet behind when they go on holiday but find the idea of traveling with their pets stressful because of the lack of services catering for them. Premier Inn do not currently allow customers to bring their pets into their hotels and are aware that this would not be universally popular as around 20% of the UK population are allergic to dogs. They have asked you to develop a research proposal that investigates consumer demand for travelling with pets. In addition to overall demand, the research will be used to inform Premier Inn about the specific preferences, needs and expectations of pet owners and the concerns of existing customers. Starter reference: Dotson, M. J., Hyatt, E. M. and Clark, J. D. (2010) Traveling with the Family Dog: Targeting an Emerging Segment. Journal of Hospitality Marketing and Management. 20(1), pp. 1-23. Vaccination Hesitancy Despite the largely successful rollout of the UK National Health Service (NHS) program of Covid 19 vaccination in early 2021 with around 90% of UK adults receiving a vaccine, uptake rates in certain communities such as the Black, Bangladeshi and Pakistani communities were markedly lower than in the White community. This hesitancy has also been apparent in some section of the White Community driven by issues such as political beliefs, false rumours on social media and concerns over allergies. The NHS wishes to better understand the reason behind this hesitancy so that it may improve vaccine uptake in the future and has commissioned you to undertake a study examining the issue. Starter reference: Razai, M.S., Osama, T., McKechnie, D.G. and Majeed, A., (2021) Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy among ethnic minority groups. British Medical Journal. 372 p. 513 The BBC and the Licence fee Britain’s state-run broadcaster was started in 1927 and has been funded by a system of annual ‘licences’ currently costing £157.50 that each household possessing a TV is required to purchase by law. Whilst the BBC is appreciated by the British Public who have endeared it with nicknames including ‘the Beeb’ and ‘Auntie’, this annual licence fee has become controversial in recent years as the number of TV channels available in the UK has proliferated as it is still payable by households that watch any live TV, irrespective of whether or not they watch BBC channels. This controversy reached new heights last year when the concessionary free TV licences for those aged 75 plus were largely withdrawn. The Licence fee is now classed as a tax and failure to pay is a criminal offence. The BBC trust is concerned about the declining support for the licence fee and has commissioned you to conduct research into suitable alternative systems of funding such as advertising, pay as you view and monthly subscription in order to inform a decision about possible replacement of the licence fee. 3 Starter reference: Weeds, H., (2016) Is The Television Licence fee fit for Purpose in the Digital Era?. Economic Affairs. 36(1), pp.2-20. The Social Impact of St Pauls Carnival Events such as the annual St Pauls Carnival have a long history and are deeply embedded in their communities. The carnival first took place in 1968 as an attempt to bring together the European, African-Caribbean and Asian communities in the area and challenge negative stereotypes. The carnival has at times been contentious but continues to grow and in recent years has attracted tens of thousands of people from all over the UK. With the narrow streets of St Pauls this growth has been challenging and the Carnival had to be cancelled in 2015 and 2017 over safety concerns. People are also concerned that the carnival has become to commercialised and controlled and want a return to its community roots. Ahead of the 2022 carnival, the carnival committee have asked you to create a proposal that explores what the most important aspects of the event are for carnival-goers, how they understand the social and cultural role of the carnival, and how this might differ for different types of attendees. Starter reference: Arcodia, C. & Whitford, M. (2006) Festival Attendance and the Development of Social Capital. Journal of Convention and Event Tourism. 8 (2), pp. 1-18. Resurrecting Glastonbury Festival after Covid Festivals are one of the UK tourism industry’s biggest successes but in common with most events attracting large numbers of people, almost all were cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to the Covid19 Pandemic. Festival organisers worry about how to convince festival goers that it will be safe to attend once they are allowed to restart. Glastonbury Festival is thought by many to be the largest festival in the world with 200,000 attendees in 2019 and after 50 years of success, organisers wish to restart the festival next year and wish to ensure that it remains just as popular and successful as it has always been. The organisers have therefore asked you to develop a research proposal that identifies the factors that impact on the success and failures of this kind of event and what they need to do to ensure festival goers will feel safe enough to return. Starter reference: Kinnunen, M. and Haahti, A. (2015) Visitor discourses on experiences: reasons for festival success and failure. International Journal of Event and Festival Management. 6 (3), pp. 251-268. Suggested Structure: A detailed suggested template for your proposal is provided on Blackboard with the following suggested structure. The word counts given are indicative only and approximate: • An Executive Summary (100 words): This should act as a standalone piece that the client could read separately to the rest of the report and should include your findings and recommendations. • Contents Table: Using the automatic features of Word • Introduction/background (300 words): This should demonstrate a clear understanding of the scenario and set out the broad context for the proposed research using relevant market data to provide context. • Aim and Objectives (100 words): We are looking for a clearly defined overall research aim and appropriately worded objectives which are derived from the academic literature discussed in your introduction • Research Strategy, Design and Data Analysis Strategy (2,000 words): To include your chosen research strategy and design, data collection and analysis methods and sampling including justification for all decisions made and appropriate support from academic and practitioner references. • Limitations (200 words): a description of the limitation(s) of the research that potentially threaten the robustness of the study (e.g. methodological limitations, not poor research design), and the measures proposed to address them. • Ethical considerations (200 words): A consideration of ethical issues with clear proposals to address all issues to minimise harm to research participants including details of codes of conduct. 4 • Conclusion (100 Words): A closing summary of approximately which briefly reviews the content of the proposal • Research instrument(s): Discuss your research instrument(s) and include an example as an appendix. • Timings: A Gannt Chart which includes realistic timings with an appropriate level of detail should be placed in the appendix. Your proposal needs to contain at least one example research instrument (e.g. survey, moderator’s guide), to be included as an appendix together with the research matrix.

What are the government strategies for ensuring affordable healthcare?

Affordable Healthcare

Introduction

Most families from the middle-income economy have been unable to access affordable healthcare due to an increase in billing systems and drug costs. Therefore, the government has established an affordable healthcare policy to encounter such challenges by providing healthcare to all. The policy aligns with the economic theory of socialism as it aims to produce goods that benefit all individuals in society without basing them on their status. Since decisions on legal production and distribution of drugs are made by the government under the policy, the economic system embraced is socialism since the pricing decisions are made by the government. Moreover, the government’s role under the policy will be the pricing regulation of health insurance companies and pharmaceuticals. The government’s policy aligns with Christian ethics as it encourages resource sharing through equitable distribution of goods in society.

Proposed Research Questions

  1. a)    What are the government strategies for ensuring affordable healthcare?
  2. b)    What is the impact of affordable healthcare on the community?

Proposed Research Objectives

  1. a)    Determine the relevant strategies for ensuring affordable healthcare.
  2. b)    Examine the impact of affordable healthcare on the community.

Proposed Literature Review

The affordable healthcare policy is significant in ensuring quality care without considering socio-economic status. The study explores the billing system of various healthcare facilities and how it influences health-seeking behavior among individuals. Moreover, the research is evidence-based as it uses literature sources to determine the current state of affordable healthcare policy. According to Sowell, drug substitution policies reduce the cost of health insurance systems. Pharmaceutical drugs have been characterized by higher prices, leading to government regulation to end the high prices that result in unconscionable profits. The billing in private health insurance companies has been regulated by the government to ensure patients are charged reasonable costs to ensure affordability to all. Sowell identified significant attempts to bring down medical care costs by making it harder for lawyers to win lawsuits against hospitals and doctors. Therefore, the government and insurance companies have played a significant role in ensuring affordable and quality care through price controls.

Proposed Research Methodology

In this study, the main study question is about government strategies for ensuring affordable healthcare. Primary data sources will be significant for this study as they will be based on first-hand information. Information from primary research will indicate the participant’s viewpoint in a particular research area. The study will prioritize qualitative research with a particular approach to interviews in data collection. Moreover, the study will target 200 respondents organized into 10 focus groups of 20 respondents each for the interviews.

Data analysis

The study will use qualitative analysis in answering questions such as ‘what’ and ‘why’, whereby each of them will be addressed via quantitative techniques such as questionnaires and attitude scaling.

 

 

 

What are the problems encountered by e-tailers? How has Amazon.com succeeded to deal with these problems?

Amazon.com: The world’s largest B2C e-store [Source: Adapted from Turban et al. (2012) pp. 134-135] The opportunity Amazon.com reported that its annual profit for 2008 had doubled from 2007, with a 41 percent revenue increase, despite adverse US and global economic conditions. Entrepreneur Jeff Bezos faced an opportunity rather than a business problem. In the early 1990s Bezos saw the huge potential for retail sales over the Internet and identified books as the most logical product for e-tailing. In July 1995, Bezos started Amazon.com, an e-tailing pioneer, offering books via an electronic catalogue from its website. Over the years the company has recognised that it must continually enhance its business models and online storefront by expanding its product selection, improving the customer experience, and adding services and alliances. In addition, the company recognised early on the importance of order fulfilment and warehousing. It has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in building physical warehouses designed for shipping small packages to hundreds of thousands of customers. Amazon.com’s challenge was, and remains, how to succeed where many have failed – namely, how to sell consumer products online, at a profit, and show a reasonable rate of return on investment. The solution: Reaching out to customers In addition to its initial electronic bookstore, Amazon.com has expanded its offerings to a vast array of products and services segmented into three broad categories: media (books, music, DVDs, etc); electronics and other merchandise (including its new wireless reading device, Kindle 2; office supplies; cameras; toys; etc.); and other (non-retail activities, such as Web services, Amazon Enterprise solutions, etc.) Key features of the Amazon.com superstore are easy browsing, searching, and ordering; useful product information, reviews, recommendations, and personalisation; broad selection; low prices; secure payment systems; and efficient order fulfilment. Amazon.com is known for its innovations. For example in 2010, Amazon Seller Product Suggestion Box provides transparency to sellers by recommending specific products for third party sellers to sell on Amazon.com. The suggestions are based on customers’ browsing history. The Amazon.com website has a number of features that make the online shopping experience more enjoyable. For example, its ‘Gift Ideas’ section features seasonally appropriate ideas and services. AmazonConnect allows customers to select their favourite authors, read about them, and then receive e-mails from some of those authors. Amazon.com also offers various marketplace services. Amazon Auctions hosts and operates auctions on behalf of individuals and small businesses throughout the world. The Shops service hosts electronic storefronts for a monthly fee, offering small businesses the opportunity to have customised storefronts supported by the richness of Amazon.com’s order-fulfilment processing. Customers can use web-enabled mobile phones, PDAs, or pocket PCs to access Amazon.com and shop anywhere, anytime (more than $1 billion of merchandise in 2009). Amazon.com can also be accessed via AT&T’s #121 voice service. Amazon.com is recognised as an online leader in creating sales through customer intimacy and customer relationship management (CRM), which are cultivated by informative marketing front ends and one to one advertisements. 15 In addition, sales are supported by highly automated, efficient back-end systems. When a customer makes a return visit to Amazon.com, a cookie file identifies the user and says, for example, ‘Welcome back, Sarah Shopper,’ and then proceeds to recommend new books from the same genre of the customers previous purchases and a range of other items. It also provides detailed product descriptions and ratings to help consumers make informed purchase decisions. The site has an efficient search engine and other shopping aids. Amazon.com has a superb warehousing system that gives the company an advantage over the competition. Amazon.com is known for its strategy and acquisition of its successful competitors in niche markets (e.g., CDNow, Zappos). The company also acquired supplementary companies such as Alexa, Junglee, and DPReview. Customers can personalise their accounts and manage orders online with the patented ‘1-Click’ order feature. 1-Click includes an electronic wallet which enables shoppers to place an order in a secure manner without the need to enter their address, credit card number, and other information each time they shop. It allows customers to view their order status, cancel or combine orders that have not yet entered the shipping process, edit the shipping options and addresses on unshipped orders, modify payment method for unshipped orders, and more. In 1997, Amazon.com started an extensive associates programme. By 2009, the company had more than 2 million partners worldwide that refer customers to Amazon.com. Partners that feature Amazon’s products in their self-contained online store embedded directly within their partners’ Web page can earn up to a 15 percent referral fee if the advertisement ends with a sale (cf. affiliate-program.amazon.com). Starting in 2000, Amazon.com has undertaken alliances with major ‘trusted partners’ that provide knowledgeable entry into new markets. For example, clicking ‘Office Supplies’ allows customers either to select from Amazon.com’s office supplies or to browse those to Office Depot; clicking ‘Health and Personal Care’ allows customers to benefit from great deals offered by Weight Watchers. In yet another extension of its services in September 2001Amazon.com signed an agreement with Borders Group Inc., providing Amazon.com’s users with the option of in-store pick up for their merchandise at Borders’ physical bookstores. 16 Amazon.com is also becoming a web fulfilment contractor for national online chains such as Target. AmazonFresh is a grocery delivery service. Amazon MP3 allows downloads, some free, others for 69¢ per song. Amapedia is a wiki for user-generated content, a video on demand service for Amazon MP3. AmazonConnect allows authors to post remarks on their book pages to customers who have bought their books. Amazon.com offers many Web 2.0 social shopping features (e.g. customers’ reviews). It also acquired Woot.com, a company known for its social commercial activities. The Results In 1999, Time magazine named Bezos ‘Person of the Year,’ recognising the company’s success in popularising online shopping. In January 2002, Amazon.com declared its first profit – for the 2001 fourth quarter. Since then the company has remained profitable. Annual sales for Amazon.com have trended upward, driven largely by product diversification and its international presence. This pioneer e-tailer now offers over 17 million book, music, and DVD/video titles to some 20 million customers. Despite the increased competition, Amazon.com has been holding its place as the number one B2C money making EC site in the world. Given its warehouse system and order fulfilment, Amazon.com can offer very low prices. Add to this to the high customer satisfaction and the huge and superb selection of products and you can understand why Amazon.com is selling more than three times the products compared to its nearest competitor. Amazon.com also offers several features for international customers, including over 1 million Japanese language titles. Amazon.com maintained its position as the number one e-tailer in 2008, generating revenues of $19.2 billion, with a net income of $645 million. Amazon.com the king of e-tailers, which has shown all others the potential of B2C eC, is increasing its profitability, even in economic crises. Questions: 1. What are the problems encountered by e-tailers? How has Amazon.com succeeded to deal with these problems? 2. Describe the key characteristics of Amazon.com’s approach that has ensured sustained stickiness among its customer base. 3. At a time when most businesses around the world have suffered the effects of recession, how has Amazon.com managed to grow its business year on year? 4. Do you think all e-tailers would be successful if they were to follow Amazon.com’s approach? Why or why not?

When it comes to meeting the needs of older adults in today’s culture and the role of the church, what are your ideas on what seems to be working well in addressing the needs of this group?

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At times the idea of working with older adults may bring a negative image especially when it comes to the complex care that older adults may require. At one time the care of older adults belonged to families; however, the responsibilities of older adult care have shifted increasingly to more structured care facilities such as assisted living places and nursing homes. When it comes to meeting the needs of older adults in today’s culture and the role of the church, what are your ideas on what seems to be working well in addressing the needs of this group? What ideas do you have to improve what is being offered to this population, especially when it comes to communities of faith? What do you think are the barriers to such suggestions?