Community Assignment – Epidemiology Assignment

Turnitin Assignment!!! Please be aware that the percentage of plagiarism for this assignment is 35%.

1.  Go to http://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/default.aspx and review the Healthy People 2020 initiative.  Pay close attention to the objectives, goals and the indicators.

2.  Using your city or county public health department: http://miamidade.floridahealth.gov/  You can choose any of these two counties(Miami-Dade County, Florida, or Broward County, Florida) identify an epidemiological and surveillance data related to population based communicable illnesses.

Illnesses chosen:

1. What is a health care organization’s administrative role regarding oversight of risk management policies and ensuring compliance with managed care organization (MCOs) standards?

2. What is your assessment of the value provided to an organization that stems from the regulatory statutes of a typical MCO? Consider the establishment of conflict resolution and risk management strategies within the health care organization from the employer/employee perspective as well as in regards to patient conflict circumstances.

3. What MCO responsibilities pertain to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) focus on fraud, waste, and abuse laws?

In addition to your textbook, you are required to support your analysis with a minimum of four peer-reviewed references

Book used by school. Risk Management in Health Care Institutions: Limiting Liability and Enhancing Care, 3rd Edition.

1. Tuberculosis

2. Hepatitis B

3. Gonorrhea

4.  Based on these chosen communicable illness prepare an analysis discussing how this 3-communicable illness affect your community, and how they were identified and a plan of action to contained them base on healthy people 2020.

– Presentation must be in APA format.

– Arial 12 font attach to the forum/thread in the assignment tab and turnitin with a minimum of 1000 words (excluding first and references page)

– A minimum of 3 evidence based references no older than 5 years are required.

– The assignment must include the zip code of the city or county chosen.

Once again, the assignment will be posted in turnitin to verify originality!