HCM 590 Module 6 -Advocacy Paper: National Healthcare Disparities Report
For the Advocacy Paper, you will select one of the following national priorities (from the National Healthcare Disparities Report), research, and advance federal-, state-, and organizational-level recommendations: The paper should be approximately 1,500 words in length (excluding the list of references cited at the end) and incorporate the Saint Leo University core value of integrity. •Making care safer •Ensuring person- and family-centered care •Promoting effective communication and care coordination •Promoting effective prevention and treatment of leading causes of mortality, starting with cardiovascular disease •Working with communities to promote wide use of best practices to enable healthy living •Making quality care more affordable •Reducing disparities, which are “persistent in all national priorities” ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND WEBSITE FRO DISPARITIES: Orientation to the National Healthcare Disparities Report (2012) Pages 14-32 of the National Healthcare Disparities Report focus on national priority areas including: •Making care safer •Ensuring person- and family-centered care •Promoting effective communication and care coordination •Promoting effective prevention and treatment of leading causes of mortality, starting with cardiovascular disease •Working with communities to promote wide use of best practices to enable healthy living •Making quality care more affordable The need to reduce disparities is “persistent in all national priorities” (p. 31). U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2012). National healthcare disparities report 2011. Retrieved from .ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhdr11/nhdr11.pdf">http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhdr11/nhdr11.pdf
