Long Live the Queen
Please, send Dr. Tracey
Lynn Koehlmoos an e-mail with the country on which you would like to
conduct your health system project.
1. Lecture Presentations
1.1.
Lecture 5 United Kingdom Healthcare System
1.2.
Lecture 6 Healthcare System of the Netherlands
2. Power Point Slides
2.1.
Slides for
Lecture 5 United Kingdom Healthcare System
2.2.
Slides for
Lecture 6 Healthcare System of the Netherlands
3. Readings
3.1
AJPH: Lessons from British NHS
3.2
CNN: Americans Sicker than English
3.3 Lassey, Lassey and Jinks:
Chapters 8 and 10
3.4 Graig: Chapters 4 and 7
4. Chat Questions
This week you have read about the evolution of the Beveridge model and
how it has played out to present form in the United Kingdom. You will need
to read both of the articles before entering the chat room for the
discussion. One of the articles is scholarly and from a peer-reviewed
journal and the other article is from the popular media. As a health
services worker you must be aware of and be prepared to deal with issues
that are presented in all forms of communication. We will make comparisons
between the UK and the USA in the following questions.
1. The article from the AJPH by Dr. Donald Light makes eight transferable
policy recommendations on page 5 of the article. For each person in the chat
session, pick one of these policy recommendations and discuss the
difficulty, probability and impact that adopting that policy would have in
the United States and in the US healthcare system. Specifically, consider:
What would the policy look like? What players in the health sector would be
impacted? Who would resist the change and why? Who would benefit from this
change? Is this recommended transfer of ideas a real possibility within the
context of the current US political and social milieu? If not transferable
to the USA, please explain the difference in how and why this policy worked
in the UK.
2. The second article is from CNN and encapsulates the ideas from a more
scholarly study. The article says two things of interest 1) Why isn’t the
richest nation in the world the healthiest nation in the world and 2) Don’t
blame the health systems of the two nations for the difference. As a group,
discuss the implications of this article.
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