Describe at least three acts of legislation that have had a significant impact on health in America.
describe the impact of recent U.S. health care reform legislation. If you were designing a new system: What elements of the current system would you keep and why? What elements would you change and why? How would health care be paid for? What innovative ideas can you envision? Be specific and explain your responses. Use a minimum of three scholarly references to back up you ideas.
the role of engineers and engineering in development taking a historical perspective and dividing time up into different eras based on dominant themes. The last section covers the time period “2000-present” and is described on p. 40 as taking place as three trends converge. One is an education trend; one is an employment trend; and one is a media/visibility trend.
• Identify three trends that you think will affect how/what/why computer scientists work in the world in the 2020-2040 period. Your trends do not have to fall into the education, employment, and/or media space though you may want to consider whether one or more of these (suitably updated) is interesting to include.
• Give two current examples of ways that pairs of these trends are coming together to have meaning or lead to different behavior.
Describe how you searched for an international source, provide a brief summary, and supply the reference.
2. How did you determine that the source was not from the United States?
3. How did the perspective of the international scholar compare with your perspective as a U.S. citizen?
4. How might different systems of health care affect research productivity and ways
that a nation uses evidence in its health policy?
5. Will you seek international sources of evidence to inform your practice? Why or why
not?
6. How might culture influence how you might use a particular source of evidence?