Health Costs

PART 1 (2 PAGES)

This course is comprised of a series of Individual Project assignments that will contribute to a Key Assignment submission at the end of the course. The final Key Assignment is due in Week 5.

You are currently working as an administrative assistant for a large metropolitan hospital. You have been asked to prepare an article for the hospital newsletter about international health care. The following are the items you have been asked to include:

• List and explain reasons why the health status of a country plays an important role in its economic status.
• Create a table that shows how the access, quality, and cost of health care are influenced by the low-income, middle-income, and high-income status of an economy.

PART 2 (3 pages)

Select 1–3 foreign countries, and provide the following information about the access, quality, and cost of health care:

Compare a foreign country’s quality of care to the United States’ quality of care.

Compare a foreign country’s cost of health care to the United States’ cost of health care.

Compare 1 of the foreign countries’ access to medical care to the United States’ access to medical care.

Give examples of how the World Health Organization (WHO) helps to provide health care in times of need.

Be sure to support your information by citing at least 2 scholarly references using APA format.