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In recent years, many widespread infectious disease outbreaks have occurred. Some of these diseases have been domestic epidemics (measles, hepatitis, etc.) and others have been of global concern (Coronavirus, Ebola, H1N1, etc.). Preventing the spread of infectious disease is everyone’s responsibility.

1) What can you do on a day-to-day basis to prevent the spread of disease in your home, in your workplace, and public areas?

2) Regardless of methods to decrease spread of infectious diseases, pathogens are everywhere.  Would it make sense to focus on strengthening your own immune system to increase the effectiveness of which it can handle exposure to these pathogens?  If so, what are some ways in which you could do this?

‘THIS JOB IS A REPLY TO THE BELOW INFORMATION DONE BY STUDENT -(discussion)

The proposed health policy chosen is titled Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act” or simply the HEROES Act. The policy was introduced in the house on 05/12/2020 with the main objective of responding to the Covid-19 disease outbreak by factoring in its impacts on the economy, public health, local and state governments, Americans as well as various businesses. The bill also has other provisions and these include providing emergency supplemental materials to the federal agencies during the FY 2020. What’s more, the bill also ensures that the state, local and territorial governments have the assistance required to fight emergencies such as the global pandemic (Congress.gov, 2020). In addition, the HEROES Act expands paid sick days, as well as ensuring that the family and medical leaves are long enough and addresses the issues of unemployment, nutrition and other health concerns. With regard to fighting the global pandemic, the bill pushes for funding and ensuring that the Covid-19 requirements including testing and contact tracing are properly done, as well as the elimination of cost sharing specifically for Covid-19 treatments (Congress.gov, 2020). Most significantly, the bill also proposes that all employers should develop and engage in the implementation of infectious disease exposure control plans as well as ensuring that employees are well trained and can easily access the PPEs with reference to the global pandemic.

            The Corona Virus pandemic has caused several losses of lives in addition to numerous hospitalizations in the US. Being a highly infectious disease, it is of utmost significance to understand the prevalence of the disease and for the highly susceptible populations, necessary measures should be undertaken to reduce the spread. One of the measures proposed by WHO include containment measures, contact tracing, keeping distance and washing hands among others. Since WHO has proved that these measures may help in the prevention of Covid-19 and other infectious diseases, it is evident that the HEROES bill, if passed, may help in reducing the number of Covid-19 cases, especially by ensuring that the WHO guidelines on containing the pandemic are adhered to, as well as ensuring that employers comply to the containment measures as well as ensuring that their employers are safe. Moreover, another significant component of the bill is that it addresses the impacts of Covid-19 on the US economy, together with ensuring that the disease does not affect individuals, as well as their businesses. All these support the benefits of this bill and how it will aid in opening the economy, honoring heroes as well as sending money to the Americans as asserted by the National Law Review (2020).

Describe the selected problem from two of the three system levels (micro, meso, macro).

 The healthcare system is a complex and high risk; therefore, the Joint Commission recommends creating high-reliability organizations within every healthcare facility.  Building a high-reliability organization is about creating a culture of high quality, high safety, and patient-focused.  Using my facility as an example, the culture within each of the departments at the hospital is the microsystems level.  This is the location of patient communication and hands-on patient care.  The problem exists in reporting near misses to avoid bigger safety events in the future.  The culture across the Mercy Health St. Rita’s including the hospital, home care/hospice, primary care, and specialty offices would be the mesosystem level.  Here continuity of care is provided across this environment.  Having an environment that promotes communication and reporting is the problem.  The culture among the entire BonSecour Mercy Health healthcare system would be the macrosystems level.  They govern the overall healthcare being provided according to the standards and expectations (Alam, 2020).  The problem would be to establish the expectations around creating a high-reliability organization.

Explain how the outcomes of one system level effect the other levels?

            The culture of one system-level reflects the values and beliefs of team members across all levels.  The expectations from the macrosystem reflection down to the microsystem.  Like with Joint Commission setting an expectation for healthcare systems to become high-reliability organizations, the regulatory team members from the macro to meso to micro enforce these expectations.  The mesosystem level receives most of the attention related to the culture embedded within their organization good or bad.  However, the training and education to create a culture of high safety and quality happen at the microsystem level.  It includes providing an environment where front line team members feel safe to speak about the problems and offer solutions on how to solve them without the fear of repercussion.  The microsystem level needs to know the macrosystem and mesosystem levels will trust and support them (Manley & Jackson, 2019).

How is a systems approach beneficial in improving healthcare quality and safety?

 All workers want to be apart of an organization that promotes high quality and safety no matter the system level they are associated with.  Continuing the focus of creating a culture of high quality and safety, all levels have a different view.  The macrosystem level can see when environments do not promote this culture leading to risk and harm caused to patients.  They see patterns for success and opportunity across various facilities.  Learning from one another can be promoted.  This level is visionary,  big picture.  At the mesosystem level has the view to see the expectations and see the details specific to the facility to create the process around developing the culture.  Middle managers at this level are strategically valuable.  They can effectively influence change through educating and encouraging team members to speak out.  From here they can voice concerns or needs up to the macrosystem level (Gutberg & Berta, 2017).  The microsystem level can implement a culture of high quality and safety.  With training, development, and support, they can carry out the vision set forth by the macrosystem level   (Manley & Jackson, 2019).  All system levels are important for advancing the healthcare system.  Neither level could function independently effectively or efficiently.   

I need a comment for this post at least 2 paragraphs with 2 sources no later than 5 years. 

 Instructions

This week we are focusing on global communication. I would like you to write a 3-5 page paper with global communication as your topic. I am going to leave the details of this paper up to you…it just needs to involve global communications in some way. You could choose to cover the topic in a broad way, or you could choose to focus on a particular company and explain their methods of communicating globally. As long as your paper is well written and researched, you can decide!

Paper must include:

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Wikepedia is not an acceptable source for this paper should you choose to use additional sources.

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