Week 3 will help students develop an understanding of what money is, what forms money takes, how the banking system helps create money, and how the Federal Reserve controls the quantity of money. Students will learn how the quantity of money affects inflation and interest rates in the long run, and production and employment in the short run. Students will find that, in the long run, there is a strong relationship between the growth rate of money and inflation. Students will review the basic concepts macroeconomists use to study open economies and will address why a nation’s net exports must equal its net capital outflow. Students will demonstrate the relationship between the prices and quantities in the market for loanable funds and the prices and quantities in the market for foreign-currency exchange. Student will learn to analyze the impact of a variety of government policies on an economy’s exchange rate and trade balance. Assignment Steps Resources: National Bureau of Economic Research Develop a 2,100-word economic outlook forecast that includes the following:Analyze the history of changes in GDP, savings, investment, real interest rates, and unemployment and compare to forecast for the next five years.Discuss how government policies can influence economic growth.Analyze how monetary policy could influence the long-run behavior of price levels, inflation rates, costs, and other real or nominal variables.Describe how trade deficits or surpluses can influence the growth of productivity and GDP.Discuss the importance of the market for loanable funds and the market for foreign-currency exchange to the achievement of the strategic plan.Recommend, based on your above findings, whether the strategic plan can be achieved and provide support. Use a minimum of three peer-reviewed sources from the University Library. Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines. Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.

“Designing and Implementing an Effective Compliance Plan”  Please respond to the following:

• The Office of Inspector General (OIG) has established a set of guidelines (e.g., auditing, monitoring, internal controls, sampling, due diligence, and standards of organizational and employee behavior, etc. Page 508 of the textbook) that physician practices should follow when creating a compliance plan. State your opinion as to which OIG guideline would be the single most significant aspect of a compliance plan for a small practice. Provide a rationale for your response.
• According the text, the fundamental purpose of a compliance plan is to create an organizational culture that promotes the prevention, identification, and resolution of issues associated with risk. Suggest two (2) main aspects of a management strategy necessary to create this type of culture. Support your recommendations with at least one (1) real-world example.Welcome to week 9 class. In health care, we have to look at several motivating factors.  The desire to serve and make peoples’ lives better should always be a driving force in health care.

We should always strive to be better and to offer better care when able to.  Please discuss what type of compliance plans you believe will fit with these ideals?

Assignment #1 Title:

Provide the title of the topic you selected/Instructor approved

Health Problem:

Describe and provide details about the health problem.

Indicate in detail:

-Who is most impacted by this health problem? Include relevant statistics (incidence, mortality, morbidity, etc);

-This section must include how the problem impacts:

1. patients,

2. health provider professionals,

3. health organizations,

4. healthcare insurers and payers,

5. government.

-Note the human and financial costs for the healthcare system.

Healthy People 2020:

Summarize the health problem as recognized by Healthy People 2020’s goals for the nation.

-Include a discussion on the which social determinants of health impacts the health issue you selected.

-Does another governmental agency or public health organization describe the problem? If so, provide details on how this agency/organization describes the problem.

-If HP2020 does not discuss the health problem you selected, describe why you believe this issue was excluded from HP2020.

Official Title and Citation of the Legislation:

Research policy websites. What policy is associated with the public health problem you selected?

Indicate the government’s response to the health problem you selected by including the exact title of the legislation in this section.

Describe the public policy response:

Describe the scope of the legislation and the anticipated impact on the chosen health issue in the population.

Current Status:

To date, provide a few sentences that describe the status of your topic in the policymaking cycle.

Policy and SDH

Does the policy address, facilitate or hinder access to the social determinants of health? 

Conclusion:

In your findings, would you say the health policy adequately addresses the health problem you identified? Why or Why not? Be specific.

Resources for

Updates:

What (policy) resources would a health organization use to check for updates on this policy?

Medicare Advantage, Qualified Health Plans, and Medicaid Managed Care Organizations are often interchangeably confused with one another. Review the article below, specially the chart of key difference. For your Module 4 Discussion, discuss the key differences, pros, and cons of each.
Lipschutz, D. & Callow, A. (2015). Comparison of Consumer Protections in Three Health Insurance Markets: Medicare Advantage, Qualified Health Plans and Medicaid Managed Care Organizations.

Must respond to 3 classmates after completion.

2nd discussion post (Reflections on course concepts)

1. The Assignment: Given the readings and assignments in the course, identify and discuss two concepts or lessons learned that you believe will be most applicable to your professional discipline.
2. Assignment Expectations:
   1. Address concept A and B in about 150 words each.
   2. You will be graded on how well you demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the concept, and critical thinking pertaining to the applicability of the concept to your professional practice.
   3. You will neither be required to, nor graded on, responses to your peers. One posting will suffice.

Unit VI Assignment Fishbone Diagram Project Read the U.S. Chemical Safety Board investigation report of the 2007 propane explosion at the Little General Store in Ghent, WV. The final report can be read/downloaded at the following link: https://www.csb.gov/assets/1/20/csbfinalreportlittlegeneral.pdf?13741. Additional information on the incident, including a video summary, can be found at the following link: https://www.csb.gov/little-general-store-propane-explosion/ NOTE: This is the same investigation report used to complete the assignments in Units IV and V. Complete the assignment as detailed below. Part I: From the information in the report and from the information you developed for the assignments in Unit IV (events and causal factors [ECF] chart) and Unit V (barrier analysis), create a fishbone diagram that illustrates the relationship between the causal factors and the accident. In your diagram, the backbone of the fish should represent the accident, and the big bones should represent the people, procedures, environment, equipment, and policies. Part II: On a separate page, discuss what new information about the accident is revealed in the chart, and describe how that information might be used to identify potential corrective actions. This part of the assignment should be a minimum of one page in length. Upload Parts I and II as a single document. For Part II of the assignment, you should use academic sources to support your thoughts. Any outside sources used, including the sources mentioned in the assignment, must be cited using APA format and must be included on a references page.