The discussion requires a minimum of 300 words, 3 scholarly sources, including the textbook. Make sure that you use APA style with your references. Under no circumstances use any direct quotes. Any directly quoted or copied material will result in a zero for the assignment. Let’s be sure to write it in own work 100% and give appropriately when using someone’s else work.

Reference for textbook attached:

Williams, S. J., & Torrens, P. R. (2008). Introduction to health services (7th ed.). Clifton Park, NY: Thomson Delmar Learning.

Discussion:

In preparation for the discussion, please review the CDC’s Health, United States 2018, which is an annual report on health statistics. Please review the “Highlights” section on pgs. 1—4.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus18.pdf

For the Discussion:

Compare and contrast the data from the CDC’s Health, United States 2018 report to the data presented in your textbook (Ch. 3 with data from the early 2000s). Discuss (highlight) what you believe to be the most important trends in life expectancy and mortality, morbidity, and, access to and utilization of health care services over the past 15-20 years?

1,500 word count and there is a total of 6 questions each (not including in-text citation and references as the word count), a minimum of 4 scholarly sources are required in APA format. For the 4 scholarly sources, one from the textbook that’s posted below and the other two from an outside source . Let’s be sure to write it in own work 100% and give appropriately when using someone’s else work. Under no circumstances use any direct quotes. Any directly quoted or copied material will result in a zero for the assignment.

Reference for textbook attached:

Williams, S. J., & Torrens, P. R. (2008). Introduction to health services (7th ed.). Clifton Park, NY: Thomson Delmar Learning.

1 Knowledge: What population trends are most important to the planning, financing and delivery of healthcare? Please address all three separately.

2 Comprehension: Explain the implications for healthcare based on the geographic / demographic / psychographic trends. Please address all three separately.

3 Application: Give an example either real life, metaphor, poem, analogy that exemplifies the consequences of the population trends for healthcare including how healthcare is financed.

4 Analysis: What is your analysis of the root causes of these population trends? (Demographic / Geographic / Psychographic) How does/do the population trend(s) compare (comparative analysis) to other major trends affecting the healthcare industry. Select at least one population trend and one other trend.

5 Synthesis: Suggest a new or unique idea that will improve how healthcare addresses the new demands for healthcare based on population trends and how it might be financed.

6 Evaluation: How is your idea better/same/worse than the current best plans/theories/practices in addressing how the healthcare system might meet the new population demands? How does your financing/payment plan improve the system?