What do you feel would be the most difficult role and what would you do to assure that you performed this role successfully?

Please respond to the following:

  • Consider the five roles and responsibilities of the contract administration office as a contract administrator. What do you feel would be the most difficult role and what would you do to assure that you performed this role successfully?
  • Of the major activities of contract administration, suggest what you think would be the major do’s and don’ts. Apply this to a real-life business of your choosing.
Write an 8 page evaluation of key aspects of a population-based health concern, including your selection of members to form an interprofessional, collaborative coalition to achieve the stated goal.

Write an 8 page evaluation of key aspects of a population-based health concern, including your selection of members to form an interprofessional, collaborative coalition to achieve the stated goal.

Resolving population health concerns requires the combined efforts of numerous agencies and individuals to address the Triple Aim of improving the patient experience, improving the health of populations, and reducing costs. This requires an interprofessional and collaborative effort to address the complex factors at the individual, organizational, community, and policy levels associated with the multiple factors affecting the health and well-being of our communities (Graffunder, Sakurada, & Nordisk, 2016).

As a scholar-practitioner in the field, you may be expected to develop and lead a diverse team of health care professionals, civic leaders, community stakeholders, constituents, community members, other interested parties, and city, state, and government agencies in addressing a wide range of issues affecting the health of diverse groups.

This assessment provides an opportunity for you to apply your leadership skills to form a collaborative, interprofessional coalition to address a population-based health concern from a nursing, public health, or health administration perspective.

Reference

Graffunder, C., Sakurada, B., & Nordisk, N. (2016).  Preparing health care and public health professionals for team performance: The community as the classroom. National Academy of Medicine.

Scenario

Government officials are taking action to address a chronic population health concern in your area. As a member of this community, you have a good understanding of the local demographics and population health issues, including the potential implications for policy making, health care systems, service utilization, clinical practice, education, and the workforce. In your role as a doctoral graduate and health care practitioner, you have been asked to:

· Evaluate key aspects (including the social determinants of health) of the selected population health issue from the topic list.

· Lead an interprofessional team of your choosing (a coalition of community members and organizations, clinical providers, health care organizations, and civic and governmental agencies), to achieve the coalition’s goal(s), which may include prevention efforts, quality improvement, service utilization, and the reduction of health care costs.

This leadership position requires the ability to promote prevention efforts, quality improvement, service utilization and the reduction of health care costs, as well as skills in the following areas:

· Effective and ethical leadership.

· Interprofessional communication.

· Collaboration, inclusion, and applying new and existing knowledge to solve problems and inform decision making.

Preparation

For this assessment, you will select one of these topics to address in the given scenario:

Topics for the paper: Demonstrating Effective Leadership

· Health Disparities/Social Determinants of Health: Focus on vulnerable or high risk groups and on decreasing disparities between groups. You can select a specific group with a focus on the person’s experience of care, services, and resources (quality and satisfaction), improving the health of the population, and reducing per capita cost. This will be the focus for the coalition.

· Pandemic, e.g., COVID-19: Focus on a vulnerable or high risk group related to population health, including the person’s experience of care, services and resources (quality and satisfaction), improving the health of the population, and reducing per capita cost. This will be the focus for the coalition.

· Asthma and Children: Focus on a vulnerable or high risk group including the person’s experience of care, services and resources (quality and satisfaction), improving the health of the population, and reducing per capita cost. This will be the focus for the coalition.

· Opioid Addiction: Focus on a vulnerable or high risk group including the person’s experience of care, services, and resources (quality and satisfaction), improving the health of the population, and reducing per capita cost. This will be the focus for the coalition.

· Obesity: Focus on a vulnerable or high risk group including the person’s experience of care, services, and resources (quality and satisfaction), improving the health of the population, and reducing per capita cost. This will be the focus for the coalition.

Discuss reasons for measuring health behaviors.

According to Mokdad & Remington (2010), “health behaviors are a leading cause of illness and death in the United States” (p. 1). Reflecting on this statement,  (3 pages) discussing the importance of being able to measure health behaviors and describing methods to assess health behaviors in a target population.

The following items in particular will be assessed:

  1. Discuss reasons for measuring health behaviors.
  2. Identify at least two methods to assess/measure smoking behaviors among adolescents in your community.
  3. In your opinion, do you agree or disagree that measurement of health behavior is useful for program planning. Defend your position by providing empirical evidence.
Describe what it means to be assessment literate.

Description: In this session, you will learn what it means to be assessment literate and you will examine your own assessment literacy.

Learning Targets:

After this session, you will be able to:

1. Describe what it means to be assessment literate. (LT1)

2. Explain your prior knowledge of assessing as a teacher and/or a student. (LT2)

3. Participate in a community building activity

Learning Activities:

Required Readings/videos:

1. Read Chappuis & Stiggins (2020) – Chapter 1

2. Popham (2018) – Chapter 1

3. Are You Assessment Literate?

4. How Can We Make Assessments Meaningful?

5. Berger – What if Assessment Was Used to Elevate Learning Rather than to Rank Students

Assignments:

1. Complete  Memorandum of Understanding and  Academic Integrity Statement

2. Assignment: Complete and upload the Initial Baseline Survey (LT2)

discuss how the factors listed below can influence health behaviors and health status.

Review the following two video transcripts:

“Bad Sugar” which explores the causes and effects of diabetes within two Native American communities.

• https://www-tc.pbs.org/unnaturalcauses/assets/resources/badsugar_transcript.pdf and

“Place Matters” which connects the dots between health, wealth, and zip codes.

• https://www-tc.pbs.org/unnaturalcauses/assets/resources/place_matters_transcript.pdf

After reviewing both video transcripts, discuss how the factors listed below can influence health behaviors and health status. Support your discourse with examples from the video.

  1. Culture
  2. Ethnicity
  3. Race
  4. Socioeconomic status

What can communities do to change the narrative and reduce health inequalities using the examples of “Bad sugar” and “Place matters” videos?

Describe the Cultural Empowerment of the group you chose.

Describe the Cultural Empowerment of the group you chose. Specifically address how each of the PEN-3 model’s three factors within the dimension of cultural empowerment applies to your group, and provide examples.

Use subheadings to clearly show that you have addressed each of the three factors. Support your discussion with references from scholarly and professional references (not just your opinion).

Using the topic: Diabetes in African American

Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings

Writing assignment 3

Instructions to Parents and Students Write a letter to parents introducing the unit. Items to include in your letter:

· explanation of the unit

· standards addressed in the unit,

· suggestions for things parents can do at home to become involved in their child’s learning.

· encouragement for parents to contact you (be sure to include a method/information for contact.) This assures them that you want open, two-way communication if they have questions and concerns.

Standard to be taught.

RL. 6.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone.

write yourself a letter, highlighting what you will want to do differently, how you will approach situations with a different perspective post-MLDP, and what other areas you would like to focus on or achieve growth in after the course is finished. 

MLDP capstone doesn’t have strict guidance. It’s an opportunity for you to share your MLDP journey – how you’ve grown, what you’ve learned, how you will apply it moving forward etc.
You can share their favorite moments, topics that were most impactful etc. There is no required format, but many have used PowerPoint presentations is previous cohorts. This is an opportunity for you to be creative and utilize briefing skills best practices.

1-2 pages letter and a 10-14 page powerpoint

Letter Writing – You will write yourself a letter, highlighting what you will want to do differently, how you will approach situations with a different perspective post-MLDP, and what other areas you would like to focus on or achieve growth in after the course is finished.