.Carefully explain why Marx’s philosophy is sometimes called historical materialism.
2.What is the dialectical process of history? Explain it in terms of the five epochs of history.
3.What did Marx see as the inherent contradiction in capitalism? How is the contradiction related to his prophesy of violent revolution? Do you think his analysis is sound? Explain.
4.Thoroughly explain Marx’s concept of alienation. What is alienated labor? What is unalienated labor? What is species-life, and what roles do consciousness and alienation play in it?
5.Does the failure of Soviet communism indicate that Marx was wrong about communism being the end of history? If not, why did communism fail in the Soviet Union?
Contemporary economists worry that although historically the American economy has been remarkably strong, the past few years have witnessed a major housing collapse, labor unrest, increasing and persistent unemployment, and declining tax revenues, along with global crises affecting the cost of health care, oil, cotton, and food. Do you think today’s economic uncertainties are associated with the globalization of capitalism? If so, is this the beginning of the end of capitalism that Marx foresaw? Or are there other, better explanations? (page 378)
Analyze your education from the standpoint of relationships of production. What—and whose—values does public education really serve? (page 380)
Compare kinds of contributions: Who contributes more—the builders who construct houses or the developers who finance them? Who contributes more—the president of a corporation or the secretaries? Are such comparisons fair? Are ideas contributions? Analyze the concept of “contribution.” (page 381)
Do you think that the growth of complex, international corporations, multinational trade alliances, and Internet commerce that are fueling what some observers refer to as the “global economy” or “world village” are signs of a spreading bourgeoisie? Is the “capitalist class” creating “a world after its own image”? (page 382)
Analyze some corporate scandals of the past few years from a Marxist perspective. Pay particular attention to the enormous compensation packages paid to CEOs in contrast to the devastating pension plan and stock market losses incurred by average workers. (page 384)
Discuss the possibility that efforts to “honor” racial, ethnic, age, and gender diversity actually serve the interests of an exploitative class by creating increased consciousness of difference and division. Are efforts to “honor diversity” aiding or hindering class consciousness? Is there a better solution to social inequality? If so, what? (page 386)
Discuss some of the ways that alienation spreads from the workplace into society at large and into the home in particular. Has it affected your life? Your church? Your classes? Then identify and discuss activities in which you participate in species-life. What can you do to decrease periods of alienation and increase your own species-life? (page 390)

Short-Answers Complete in a Word document. The answer to each question must be 100-125 words.
Topic 7
1. Describe the Malthusian debate relative to food in the United States today. What are the major contributing factors to the lack of food? Propose both private and governmental solutions to the lack of food issues in the United States.
2. What are the challenges for citizens of both urbanization and suburbanization?
3. Examine how social change has affected at least two generations in your family. Give examples of societal changes such as technology, media, or social movements that may have had a major impact. This could include you, your parents, grandparents, children, relatives etc.
4. What environmental issues do you view as significant for your generation? What steps need to occur to support a sustainable environment? Short-Answers Complete in a Word document. The answer to each question must be 100-125 words.
Topic 6
1. Compare and contrast the conflict and the functionalist perspective relative to the political system in the United States. Select one current issue such as healthcare, immigration, or one of your choosing and discuss the issue from both perspectives.
2. Describe your family dynamics from the functionalist, conflict, and symbolic interactionist perspectives.
3. What are the sociological characteristics of religion in the United States? Build an argument that religion is likely to remain a strong feature of life in the United States or why religion may not remain a strong feature in the lives of Americans.
4. Select one of the sociological perspectives, the functionalist, conflict, or symbolic interactionist, and analyze the problems facing K-12 education in the United States. Describe three or four solutions that you would like to present to your local school board to improve the educational system.

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Part 1: Answer the following question in the Drop Box below (short answers please): What is the difference between a social insurance approach and a public assistance approach to government financed health insurance and which do you prefer and why? Part 2: list and read at least 3 files (I will attach the 3 articles) Summarize them in the Discussion Forum with your comments and questions. Your summary of the articles should be 2 paragraphs: 1.) The article stated….(a brief restatement of the article’s message) and 2.) I think that…(tell me if you agree, disagree, learned something, were surprised, etc. Just demonstrate that you are thinking!) Provide reference 9/8/2014 How Healthy Is Your County? A New Data Trove Can Tell You – Health Blog – WSJ http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2012/04/03/how-healthy-is-your-county-a-new-data-trove-can-tell-you/tab/print/?blog_id=10&post_id=49143 1/2 April 3, 2012, 5:26 PM ET ByMelinda Beck Wikimedia Commons Curious to know which counties are the healthiest—and least so—in every state? How about where your county ranks in terms of smoking and obesity rates, physical inactivity, air pollution, numbers of fast­food restaurants, and other contributors to public health? The 2012 County Health Rankings report, the third annual, is out today and provides a treasure trove of such data—29 measures in all—for each of the 3,005 counties in the U.S. The report, which draws on data from the CDC, the Dartmouth Health Atlas, the U.S. Census Bureau and other sources, is user­friendly and free. Information junkies, beware: you can spend hours on this site.
The project, a collaboration of the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, aims to help local leaders and residents see not only where they rank on factors that determine health, but also specific ways to improve. “Our goal is to move the conversation from asking the question, ‘Why is my county unhealthy?’ to ‘What can we do about it?” says Patrick Remington, Associate Dean for Public Health at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. A new section this year, called County Health Roadmaps, suggests specific measures counties can take to improve. For the first time, the program is offering up to six prizes of $25,000 to reward communities that make changes to improve public health. In many ways, the rankings reflect socioeconomic conditions. How Healthy Is Your County? A New Data Trove Can Tell You 9/8/2014 How Healthy Is Your County? A New Data Trove Can Tell You – Health Blog – WSJ http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2012/04/03/how-healthy-is-your-county-a-new-data-trove-can-tell-you/tab/print/?blog_id=10&post_id=49143 2/2 Copyright 2014 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved This copy is for your personal, non­commercial use only. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law.
For non­personal use or to order multiple copies, please contact Dow Jones Reprints at 1­800­843­ 0008 or visit www.djreprints.com Wealthy counties tend to be healthy, and vice versa. Counties with large urban areas also tend to be healthier than those that are rural, as I wrote about in a Health Journal in July. But there are exceptions. Some border counties in Texas, for example, have high rates of poverty and low rates of education, but very long­lived residents. “Even healthier counties may have high rates of smoking, excessive drinking and high rates of teen birth,” says Mr. Remington. “There is still room for improvement, no matter where you live.” Making a community healthier can start with small changes. Chip Johnson, mayor of Hernando, Miss., (population: 6,812) says that as a response to the rankings, his community removed vending machines from city hall and made sure that the local farmers market was located within walking distance of some poorer neighborhoods. He also challenged local fourth­graders to run a marathon, one mile at a time, with him and the local police captain, and convinced a local bank to donate 37 acres of foreclosed land to make a park. Mayor Johnson says he looks at the data, in part, as an economic­development tool. (Hernando is in DeSoto County, ranked No. 1 in health outcomes in Mississippi). “We’re seeing that people are very literally moving to our county and our town because they perceive it to be a healthy town.
That’s the best compliment you can get,” he says. (http://www.chicagotribune.com) 4 Recommend Tweet 0 2 Making the burden of childhood obesity all the more heavy In Georgia, public service ads that spotlight young victims incite a backlash January 31, 2012|By Bonnie Miller Rubin, Chicago Tribune reporter When a Georgia health care organization recently launched a series of childhood anti-obesity ads, they had no idea they’d be accused of attacking rather than advocating for kids. The commercials, in stark black and white, feature a series of despairing kids talking about their weight problems. There’s Bobby asking poignantly, “Mom, why am I fat?” or Jaden telling us that he’d rather play video games by himself because other children “pick on me.” A tag line follows: “Stop sugarcoating it, Georgia” or “Being fat takes the fun out of being a kid.” Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, one of the partners in the Strong4life campaign, defended the ads, saying a bold message was needed to convey urgency in a state with the second-highest obesity rate in the nation. 224 “We’re at the point where we really have to do something,” said Dr. Stephanie Walsh, medical director of the pediatric health care system. “We have to speak candidly or we’ll never get to the root of this problem.”
But some critics find the approach too blunt, insisting that the ads further stigmatize kids who already have a target on their backs. “Why are we trying to blame the victim?” asked Natalie Caine-Bish of Kent State University, who directs a weight management program for children. “Scare tactics and name-calling will not help kids get healthy and fit.” This whole issue, she said, has degenerated into “some kind of circus.” Certainly, the online discussion has been anything but civil. On Strong4Life’s Facebook page, people attacked not just the ads but the clinicians behind them. “How many of you have had to deal with the way society treats fat people?” asked one poster. Another accused the doctors of violating the Hippocratic oath by doing “more harm than good.” A third vented: “You justify this disgusting attack on children by … hiding behind intentions.” Walsh admitted surprise that the ads — which have attracted thousands of hits on YouTube — elicited such a visceral response. Considering that 75 percent of Georgia parents whose kids are overweight do not even recognize that their offspring have a problem, the time for diplomacy is over, she said. “This is a medical crisis … not about looking good for the prom,” the pediatrician explained. It’s not the first time that such a campaign has triggered a backlash.
In November, St. Mary Medical Center in Hobart, Ind., angered many motorists on Interstate 94 with a billboard featuring a scale and the headline: “Obesity is a disease. Not a decision.” As in Georgia, the tone got ugly. But unlike people in the Peach State, Indiana callers blasted the hospital for giving the plus-sized population a pass. “There’s no disease that causes your body to drive to McDonald’s to get fries,” said one woman via email. “They thought we were making an excuse for bad behavior,” explained Lorri Field, head of bariatric services at St. Mary. To be sure, Americans are aware that youth obesity is a major public health concern, ranking ahead of tobacco, teen pregnancy and Internet safety, says a survey by the University of Michigan’s C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital. And there’s no denying that the statistics are unbearably grim: In 1971, only 4 percent of 6- to 11-year-olds were obese. In 2008, that figure had shot up to 19 percent. While the numbers have leveled off, physicians everywhere are seeing kids with ailments once associated only with middle-aged adults: hypertension, diabetes and fatty liver disease. Featured Articles Without some course correction, they say, this may be the first generation to have a shorter life expectancy than their parents’.
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how licensing certification and accreditation agencies for healthcare organizations impact healthcare delivery at federal state local and organizational levels.Competency 730.1.4: Quality Reimbursement and Patient Access to Healthcare The graduate analyzes how relationships between clinical healthcare quality reimbursement for services and patient access to medical care influence the services that are provided at various levels of healthcare organizations.Competency 730.1.5: Federal Healthcare Legislation and Programs The graduate analyzes how federal legislation and programs influence the provision of services at all levels of healthcare organizations.
Introduction:
The healthcare ecosystem is influenced by external forces in the form of government regulations accreditation standards and federal legislation. These regulations and legislation are components of federal government programs and bring with them directives that may impact the economics of healthcare.The federal government established a goal of developing the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) through the use of health information exchanges and regional health information organizations. Using information technology healthcare organizations will be linked across the nation.The seamless exchange of health information may provide healthcare consumers with a higher quality of care improvement in patient access and more efficient control of the cost of healthcare services. The healthcare ecosystem is one of continual change.
Task:
A. Analyze three issues or elements involved in current government programs legislation or initiatives related to health informatics by doing the following:1. Evaluate how each issue or element is impacted by licensure certification or accreditation standards.2. Predict how each issue or element will impact the following:a. Clinical qualityb. Reimbursementc. Patient access3. Explain how each of the three issues or elements supports the NHIN.
B. Evaluate the roles of health informatics professionals in operationalizing each of your selected issues or elements by doing the following:1. Discuss the roles health informatics professionals have performed in each of these issues or elements.2. Analyze how each issue or element may impact the health informatics workforce.
C. When you use sources include all in-text citations and references in APA format.