In growing recognition of the effects of behavior on personal health, public health officials now also collect and analyze behavioral information regarding behaviors such as alcohol and drug use, seat belt and helmet use, smoking, nutrition, exercise, and sexual activities. Surveillance of noncommunicable conditions like heart disease and diabetes has also expanded in recent years. Whereas infectious disease surveillance relies heavily on case reports by physicians, behavioral and noncommunicable disease surveillance is primarily conducted through surveys designed to be representative of the sampled population.

Discuss a Public Health (PH) change made on the local or state level based on the collection of behavioral health information.

For this week’s discussion, consider how or where Kindred’s internal audit department did not live up to its obligations.  Without doing any further research about Kindred, provide your opinion as to what the reasons might be for this noncompliance?

“Planning Tools” Please respond to the following:

• Suggest the major benefits of utilizing a flow chart to define and improve a work process. Outline the key steps required to construct and develop an effective flow chart.
• Determine why one should include time value of money in any financial decision. Elaborate on how this will facilitate better financial decision making

Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board  area, write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions with  your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for  future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use  examples to reinforce your ideas:

The discussion assignment for this week will be about network protocols. Many network protocols have been used, and new protocols are entering the network marketplace constantly.

Conduct research using the library and the Internet for information about network protocols.

• Select at least 2 protocols for discussion.
• Describe the protocols, and provide examples of where they might be effectively used.
• What strengths make each protocol suitable to the example application?

Responses to Other Students:  Respond to at least 2 of your fellow classmates with a reply of at  least 100 words about their primary task response regarding items you  found to be compelling and enlightening. To help you with your  discussion, please consider the following questions:

• What did you learn from your classmate’s posting?
• What additional questions do you have after reading the posting?
• What clarification do you need regarding the posting?
• What differences or similarities do you see between your posting and other classmates’ postings?

In a 5 page paper, please research the role, mission, duties, and responsibilities of the Department of Homeland Security. Please be sure to address why this entity was formed, what responsibilities it has, its enabling legislation, and law enforcement agencies that have been acquired through the creation of the DHS. Discuss how the DHS prepares and provides assistance to law enforcement agencies. Conclude with a paragraph that addresses your own thoughts on this agency’s inception and current effectiveness.

In a 16–20 slide PowerPoint presentation (excluding title and reference slides) provide information as well as analyze the roles of the following areas in criminal justice leadership strategies and practices:

• Organizational culture
• Behavioral theory
• Planning
• Community relations

Your presentation should include, at a minimum, 4 slides, with speaker notes, for each topic. Each slide should have 4-6 bullet points on them to keep them professional and clean looking.

Value Proposition in Patient Care

Paradise Hospital, Inc. is a for-profit hospital. As the facility’s new hospital administrator, you have been tasked with improving the service value of the hospital. The administration has not done this process since the hospital began operating in the year 1995. The investors are not familiar with the value proposition strategies of hospitals in the current day America.

Note: You may create and / or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment.

Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:

1. Articulate the meaning of value-added service as it pertains to patient care services, and argue the major reasons why it matters to add value to patient services. Justify your response.
2. Outline a system for identifying the functional areas in which changes might be necessary in order to improve the hospital’s service value. Recommend the key methods that you would use to acquire the information necessary to identify the specified functional areas.
3. Specify four (4) specific areas where you believe the administration can add value in Paradise Hospital, and argue the most significant reasons why such value proposition would improve the value of services to the patients.
4. Use four (4) recent (within the last five [5] years) quality academic resources in this assignment.
   Note: Wikipedia and other websites do not qualify as quality academic resources.

Answer the following questions in the space provided below:

Explain the importance of variation to health-care organizations and answer the following questions.

Answer with 3-5 sentences each question.

1. What might be the key processes for health-care organizations?
2. What are the potential common causes of variation that would have an impact on the key processes of health-care organizations?
3. What special causes might be more important than the others?
4. How might health-care organizations’ business environment be dynamic and change over time?

Building a strong case for a community collaboration including government, businesses, advocacy groups, and citizens requires an understanding of critical success factors. Incorporating diverse groups leads to wider community support.

Using the case that you have chosen to study for this course, describe the areas that might cause the greatest problems in collaboration and encouraging diverse input, and how you might mitigate these issues. Inform your discussion using the article you found on integrating diverse populations into public or nonprofit dialogues. Be sure to appropriately cite and reference your sources in current APA style.