The Experience of Health and Illness

Choose one topic for your initial post:

1. In part, an individual's experience of disability and illness reflects their social identity. What do studies tell us about how women's and men's experiences of disability differ?

2. How does the social construction of illness-both specific illnesses and illness in general-affect the lives of persons who have chronic illnesses?

3. How do society's views on, and responses to, mental illness resemble those of past centuries? How do they differ?

Responses should be no less than 250 words in length not including your reference(s) and supported by at least two references

Disease Treatment vs. Prevention

Is an ounce of prevention still worth a pound of cure in the U.S.? Which do you think provides more significant health outcomes per dollar spent, disease treatment or prevention?

Which should we focus more research and development on if we want to maximize the number of lives saved?

Responses should be no less than 250 words in length not including your reference(s) and supported by at least two references

Discussion Question

Why is it important to have a clear understanding of cultural diversity when implementing a program plan?
responses should be no less than 250 words in length not including your reference(s) and supported by at least two references

Homework

Answer the following:

What is a decision support system? How does it differ from a performance guiding system?

What is the most important recent development in human service program information systems? Why have human service programs switched their focus from outputs?

Why is Step 5 (Implementation, Evaluation, and Modification) so important to the design process?

What are listservs and usenets, and how are human service programs using them?

Define data and information. What is the main difference between the two?

Responses should be no less than 250 words in length not including your reference(s) and supported by at least two references

Global Human Resource Management

This week we discussed the international perspective of human resources. For your initial post, you must do the following:

Identify the main HR challenges of international business for you.

Select and illustrate a function of HR which you consider to be the most important for an international business.

Responses should be no less than 250 words in length not including your reference(s) and supported by at least two references

Course Takeaways from Human Resource Management

In this last discussion board, please post what you have learned or what you are taking away from this course.

Include at least three takeaways or items learned.

Do not post a simple list. Include analysis and how what you learned can be applied within your organization.

Responses should be no less than 250 words in length not including your reference(s) and supported by at least two references.