Special populations in health care Review your classmate posts. Provide a substantive response (minimum of 100 words) to at least of your peer.

Imagine you are a client or resident within one of the communities served by this organization. Do you feel the grant funding has been spent wisely based on your peer selections for services and outcome of calculations?

Make recommendations on at least one other service that could be included should the original option identified in your peer's post be impossible to fulfill. Kelly Economic Dynamics of Health Care Delivery Models Direct cost is any type of "measurable cost such as pharmaceuticals, materials, salaries, properties, plants, and equipment" (Burkholder, Nash, 2014, section 7.1, para 1). Indirect cost is defined by the amount of "lost hours, reduced productivity, and reduced family and civic involvement" (Burkholder, Nash, 2014, section 7.1, para 1).

Section A: Create a cost-benefit analysis for an update that will improve the business: structural, office equipment, or staff. The cost will use the full amount of funds allotted to this improvement ($2 Million).

Direct:

Building repairs - $1,100,000 - I have allotted this amount of money because as an older building that is in need of extensive repairs; this amount of money will be needed to repair the building properly and bring it up-to-date and code. However, if the repairs cost too much, the building could be torn down and rebuilt to be more cost-effective.

Office equipment - $850,000 - this amount of money has been allotted to the purchase of new office equipment such as computers, tablets, printers, fax machines, telephones, etc in order to replace the outdated equipment. The purchase of the new equipment will make the job more efficient and time friendly.

Additional staff - $50,000 - this amount of money has been allotted to bringing in an additional staff member, or 2 part-time staff members getting $25,000 each. Should more funds be needed for staff; additional funds can be removed from the office equipment or building repairs.

Indirect: These funds would be determined by the amount of time that is lost by the employees during the repair of the building

Section B: Create a cost-effective analysis to determine how to best spend the $8 million portion of the grant funding on education and other preventive services.

$4 million - is being allotted to the screening of men and women for sexually transmitted diseases and HIV, in order to increase their knowledge of their likelihood of acquiring these sexually transmitted diseases that could have led to the development of HIV/AIDS. 

$2,500,000 is allotted to education on the differences between HIV/AIDS, transmission methods, prevention methods that are going into the communities that have the most risk; speaking with the youth, teenagers, and young adults. The object of the education of HIV/AIDS is the overall prevention of the disease. 

$1,250,000 is allotted to the preventive services that include the development of task forces that are used to educate high schools, colleges, and communities; clinics that can be used for testing and counseling services, and community activism.

Section C: Based on the CDC website, analyze how cultural norms impact the risk of getting HIV. Explain one method or action on how to address this challenge. Promiscuous sexual activity with excessive drinking and drug use.

This could be corrected with community-based programs that are geared towards teaching abstinence and safe sex practices; other community-based organizations that give teens and young adults an outlet instead of drinking and drugs.

Burkholder, D.M., & Nash, N.B. (2014). Special Populations in Health Care. Burlington, MA: Jones & Barlett Learning, LLC.

Special Populations Text:Burkholder, D. M., & Nash, N. B. (2013).