Disease analysis paper
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For this assignment, you will select a disease of your choice and conduct a detailed analysis of that disease, exploring it from a balanced traditional and alternative health perspective.
Begin by searching the Center for Disease Control (CDC) website Diseases and Conditions Index Click for more options to choose a disease or condition of interest to you. (https://www.cdc.gov/DiseasesConditions/az/a.html)
Next, review the website for Healthy People 2020 (https://www.healthypeople.gov/) for information related to the disease or the disease category (e.g., mental health for ADHD).
In your paper, discuss the following:
1. Prominent aspects of this disease
2. Current data and statistics related to the disease
3. Health disparities related to the disease
4. Prevention strategies including complementary and alternative health therapies
5. Contemporary research and clinical studies related to the disease
6. An analysis of the pathophysiologic effects of stress related to the disease
7. Evidence-based stress management interventions that might help with prevention or cure
The paper should be between 3–4 pages.
Incorporate at least three scholarly sources within the paper. Sources should be no more than three years old.
Use proper APA format to cite and reference sources.
2. Artifacts
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Final Essay Assignment: Artifacts, Engineering, and Ethics.
Our world is filled with artifacts—roughly things that don’t grow on their own, not even in our gardens, but things that we create, for a great variety of purposes. Buildings, sidewalks, streets, automobiles, wastebaskets, garden tools, doorstops, cell phones, toothpicks, and so on. Sooner or later, the story of how such artifacts come into our world includes something about engineers and engineering practice.
To illustrate what I have in mind, consider the wastebasket I might use to prop open the door to a classroom when nothing specifically designed to be a doorstop is available. Or consider locks on doors to classrooms, motel rooms, and the like that require the use plastic cards and special codes in order to open these doors.
Or consider a package with two rubber doorstops wrapped inside see-through plastic and cardboard. (Why are there two such doorstops in the package, rather than one, or three? Why are they in a package at all?)
At some time, somewhere, engineers had something to contribute to the design, manufacture, and packaging of little doorstops like one I could purchase to replace the wastebasket I might otherwise use to prop open the classroom door.
Artifacts like these are all around us. We can hold some of them in our hands, lift them up easily, move them from place to place, and so on. Other artifacts are too large and heavy for us lifted or move by ourselves, at least. Buildings are like that.
And automobiles, too. We can drive them to all kinds of places, with passengers coming along for the ride. Cell phones and I-Phones are artifacts—and they can be taken with us when we drive or ride in automobiles. Automobiles are often described as “I-Phone friendly”. This may pose serious problems for I-Phone users, especially when they use them while driving their automobiles. This can make drivers more dangerous on the road than drunk drivers are.
These risks (and benefits) can give us pause for ethical reflection. What kinds of questions should engineers be addressing when they design artifacts for public or commercial use? Do at least some of these questions have ethical dimensions?
Your final essay assignment is to select at least one artifact—an actual, particular object in our world (for example, this golf club, tennis ball, automobile, airplane, building, roundabout, stoplight, or interstate highway).
In, roughly, 400-600 words, say something about the likely history of your artifact—making as clear as you can how you think that engineering might be part of the story of your artifact. (Please be sure to cite any sources that have helped you tell the story of your artifact.)
Discuss how the story of this artifact, or at least artifacts like yours, might include some ethical considerations. These considerations can be about either good features of your artifact and its history and likely future, or bad features of its history and likely future.
In other words, let your artifact introduce both you and your reader to the subject of this course, “engineering ethics”. You might or might not find it useful to use words like ‘ethical’, ‘moral’, ‘immoral’, ‘unethical’, and the like in your account.
However, whatever words you use, do your best to make sure that readers will recognize that, in part, your story is about both engineering and ethics—working together.
3. Ethics, Policy, and Finance in the Health Care System
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Write a paper of 750-1,000 words examining your personal values and beliefs. Include the following:
1. Describe your personal values and spiritual beliefs.
2. Using the elements of cost, quality, and social issues to frame your description, differentiate your beliefs and opinions about health care policy. Give examples of relevant ethical principles, supported by your values.
3. Analyze how factors such as your upbringing, spiritual or religious beliefs/doctrine, personal and professional experiences, and political ideology affect your current perspective on health care policy.
4. Examine any inconsistencies you discovered relative to the alignment of your personal values and beliefs with those concerning health policy. Discuss what insights this has given you.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, An abstract is not required.
T?his assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion. Please include reference links.
