BACKGROUND: Before starting this assignment, please view these videos: How Do Va
BACKGROUND: Before starting this assignment please view these videos: How Do Vaccines Prevent Illness? Preventive Care CASE ASSIGNMENT: Use information from the modular background readings as well as any good quality resource you can find. Cite all sources and provide a reference list at the end of your paper. The following items/requirements/questions will be assessed: Part 1: Discuss the following: The nature of the problem associated with physician awareness and education and physician involvement in quality assurance processes. Concentrate your efforts on how physicians are educated. Or arent they educated on this process? The steps taken to increase provider awareness and active involvement in the quality assurance process. What works and what does not. Your recommendations for further or continued improvements. Part 2: The following items/requirements/questions will be assessed in particular: Managed care philosophy and initiatives directed at prevention and health maintenance. The nature of the problem of vaccinations and access to vaccines relative to prevention and health maintenance. The steps taken to improve quality. What works and what does not. Your recommendations for further or continued improvements. REQUIREMENTS: Support your assignment with peer-reviewed articles with at least 3-4 references. Use the following link for additional information on how to recognize peer-reviewed journals:http://www.angelo.edu/services/library/handouts/peerrev.php. Cite all sources and provide a reference list at the end of your paper. LENGTH: 5-6 Pages EXTRA READINGS: Cleverley W. O. & Cleverley J. O. (2017). Essentials of health care finance. Jones & Bartlett Learning. Eby A. Z. (2017). Impacting parental vaccine decision-making. Pediatric Nursing 43(1) 22. Ghahramanian A. Rezaei T. Abdullahzadeh F. Sheikhalipour Z. & Dianat I. (2017). Quality of healthcare services and its relationship with patient safety culture and nurse-physician professional communication. Health Promotion Perspectives 7(3) 168-174. doi:10.15171/hpp.2017.30. Gurley K. L. Wolfe R. E. Burstein J. L. Edlow J. A. Hill J. F. & Grossman S. A. (2016). Use of Physician Concerns and Patient Complaints as Quality Assurance Markers in Emergency Medicine. Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 17(6) 749. Hines A. L. Raetzman S. O. Barrett M. L. Moy E. & Andrews R. M. (2017). Managed care and inpatient mortality in adults: effect of primary payer. BMC Health Services Research 17(1) 121. Hu T. Decker S. L. & Chou S. Y. (2016). Medicaid pay for performance programs and childhood immunization status. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 50(5) S51-S57. Hurley L. P. Lindley M. C. Allison M. A. Crane L. A. Brtnikova M. Beaty B. L. . . . Kempe A. (2017). Primary care physicians perspective on financial issues and adult immunization in the era of the affordable care act. Vaccine 35(4) 647-654. doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2016.12.007. Lwembe S. Green S. A. Tanna N. Connor J. Valler C. & Barnes R. (2016). A qualitative evaluation to explore the suitability feasibility and acceptability of using a ˜celebration card intervention in primary care to improve the uptake of childhood vaccinations. BMC Family Practice 17(1) 101. doi:10.1186/s12875-016-0497-9. Pannick S. Sevdalis N. & Athanasiou T. (2016). Beyond clinical engagement: A pragmatic model for quality improvement interventions aligning clinical and managerial priorities. BMJ Quality & Safety 25(9) 716-725. doi:10.1136/bmjqs-2015-004453. Skillman M. CrossBarnet C. Singer R. F. Ruiz S. Rotondo C. Ahn R. . . . Moiduddin A. (2017;2016;). Physician engagement strategies in care coordination: Findings from the centers for medicare & medicaid services health care innovation awards program. Health Services Research 52(1) 291-312. doi:10.1111/1475-6773.12622 Stoecker C. Stewart A. M. & Lindley M. C. (2017). The cost of cost-sharing: The impact of medicaid benefit design on influenza vaccination uptake. Vaccines 5(1) 8. doi:10.3390/vaccines5010008 Websites Center for Disease Control and Prevention (2017). Vaccines and Immunizations Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/ Joint Commission. (2017). Annual report-Improving Americas hospitals: Improving Americas Hospitals-the Joint Commissions annual report on quality and safety. Retrieved from: http://www.jointcommission.org/annualreport.aspx Joint Commission (2017) Improving Americas Hospitals-The Joint Commissions Annual Report on Quality and Safety. Retrieved from Improving Americas Hospitals “ The Joint Commissions Annual Report on Quality and Safety 2012