{"title":"Long term care: an essential element of health administration education.","authors":"Connie J Evashwick, Janice Frates, Daniel F Fahey","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Long-term care represents a career opportunity of choice for many healthcare executives and an education essential for the comprehensive management responsibilities of many others. Yet formal educational programs for health administrators include little academic attention to long-term care. This paper reports on an examination of the curricula and courses of undergraduate health administration educational programs certified or recognized by the Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA) and graduate programs accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Health Management Education (CAHME). The results show that long-term care plays a minor role in the curriculum for most university programs in health administration, that there are few students enrolled in long-term care concentration or certificate offerings, and that courses in long-term care vary widely in their content and focus. We suggest that university health administration programs include specific training about long-term care services in their established core health management educational requirements so that all students in health management programs receive at least a basic education about long-term care.</p>","PeriodicalId":75078,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of health administration education","volume":"25 2","pages":"95-107"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40011705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Implementing cultural and linguistic competence in healthcare management curriculum.","authors":"Marilyn V Whitman, Jullet A Davis","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As our nation's population continues to diversify, the need to provide culturally and linguistically appropriate services will intensify. In the healthcare industry, specifically, it is imperative that the services provided are congruent with patients' beliefs and practices in order to avoid fatal and costly errors. Much attention has been given to the role of clinicians in providing appropriate services to racially and ethnically diverse groups to eliminate disparities and lessen barriers to access. The need for cultural and linguistic competence, however, extends beyond clinicians. This paper discusses the need to add cultural and linguistic competencies to the healthcare management curriculum and presents a set of core competencies for healthcare management majors. A core competency model is presented along with discussion suggestions and student activities designed to make the learning process intellectually stimulating and improve student receptivity.</p>","PeriodicalId":75078,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of health administration education","volume":"25 2","pages":"109-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40011706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lawrence Fulton, A David Mangelsdorff, Kenn Finstuen
{"title":"Using Anscombe's quartet plus one to illustrate data set matching, proper model specification, and relationships between inferential tests.","authors":"Lawrence Fulton, A David Mangelsdorff, Kenn Finstuen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In 1854, London experienced an epidemic of cholera that took more than 500 lives. In September of that year, Dr. John Snow plotted the locations of cases and of water pumps throughout the city. Using simple graphical analysis, Dr. Snow quickly identified that the source of the epidemic was the Broad Street water pump. He had the handle removed, and the cholera breakout ended. While computational analysis might have resulted in the same solution set eventually, the proper visualization of the data provided a quick solution whichprobably saved lives (Tufte, 2002). Health professionals must therefore understand that graphical analysis of data is critical to the understanding of multidimensional relationships. The following discussion illustrates the importance of data visualization as applied to the field of healthcare. We begin with an examination F.J. Anscombe's and Edward Tufte's important works regarding graphical analysis.</p>","PeriodicalId":75078,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of health administration education","volume":"25 2","pages":"145-58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40011708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Global heathcare management.","authors":"S Robert Hernandez, Richard Shewchuk","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75078,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of health administration education","volume":"25 3","pages":"171-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40011709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improving student understanding of health literacy through experiential learning.","authors":"Joan Riley, Patricia Cloonan, Erika Rogan","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Low health literacy is a pervasive yet under-appreciated issue in contemporary healthcare. It has a significant impact on cost and quality indicators, and affects patients and professionals along the entire care continuum. Educators must sensitize healthcare administration students to the complexity of low health literacy, and teach strategies to address it. This project combined conceptual and experiential approaches to increase students' sensitivity to low health literacy by combining: (1) classroom discussion of health literacy; (2) healthcare environmental assessment; (3) interviews with healthcare administrators; (4) analysis of healthcare documents that patients use; and (5) reflections on the students' experiences, both individually and as a group. Students learned that awareness of and appreciation for issues around health literacy have the potential to improve the quality of patient care and patient outcomes. Experiential learning is the key to teaching students about health literacy. This pedagogical approach increases students' understanding of the patient experience and the challenges that low health literacy poses for all participants in the healthcare system.</p>","PeriodicalId":75078,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of health administration education","volume":"25 3","pages":"213-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40011712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reflection: my first AUPHA conference.","authors":"James D Pringle","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75078,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of health administration education","volume":"25 3","pages":"257-60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40011714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Measuring and improving health system performance: what can healthcare management educators do?","authors":"Karen Davis, Kristof Stremikis","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Healthcare managers of the future will need to be prepared to accept greater accountability for the quality and efficiency of healthcare. National and state scorecards on health system performance indicate wide variation across the U.S. and across hospitals and health systems on key dimensions of performance including health outcomes, quality, access, equity, and efficiency. Benchmark data on achievable performance will be useful to healthcare managers in identifying best practices, setting priorities for improvement, and closing gaps in performance. Payment reforms are likely to reward healthcare organizations that serve as patient-centered medical homes, or assume accountability for total acute care, including hospital readmissions and post-hospital care. Health reforms to extend affordable health insurance to all, align financial incentives to enhance value and achieve savings, organize the healthcare system around the patient to ensure that care is accessible and coordinated, assist providers in meeting and raising benchmarks for high-quality, efficient care, and support greater public-private collaboration are needed to set the U.S. health system on a path to high performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":75078,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of health administration education","volume":"25 1","pages":"5-15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40011698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Judith G Calhoun, Eric T Vincent, Gary L Calhoun, Laura E Brandsen
{"title":"Why competencies in graduate health management and policy education?","authors":"Judith G Calhoun, Eric T Vincent, Gary L Calhoun, Laura E Brandsen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>During the past decade there has been a growing interest in learning and competency-based systems in various areas of education, training, and professional development. As a result, a number of competency initiatives have been undertaken across the health professions, including medicine, nursing, and pharmacy. Concurrent with these activities have been the resounding calls for: 1) both curricular content and process review in health administration and related training programs, 2) rethinking and reform of current educational practices, and 3) evidence-based, outcomes-focused education in health management and policy education. In spite of governmental mandates and accrediting body specification for educational improvement, the debate about the use of competency models, competencies themselves, and competency-based education (CBE) still continues in a number of post-secondary educational settings-both within and outside of the professions. Specifically, faculties in health management and policy educational programs, including undergraduate and graduate education across the US, have questioned the need for the evolving competencies, competency models, and outcomes-based educational processes and assessment methods currently being developed and or adopted within the profession. Outlined in this paper are four of the current inflection points related to the competency/outcomes-based movement in the professions during the past decade: 1) The Changing Workforce and Workplace, 2) Reform in the Educational Continuum, 3) Evolving Accreditation Requirements, and 4) Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) in Health Management and Policy Education.</p>","PeriodicalId":75078,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of health administration education","volume":"25 1","pages":"17-35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40011699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recruitment and selection of health administration graduate students: opportunities and strategies.","authors":"Kenneth R White, Logan Vetrovec","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75078,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of health administration education","volume":"25 4","pages":"355-67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40011064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The testing effect: teaching to enhance learning in health administration education.","authors":"Lee F Seidel, Victor A Benassi, James B Lewis","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Article reports the value associated with testing in promoting student learning and retention of course material--the testing effect. Testing prompts students to retrieve information from memory and promotes long-term memory. Using the testing effect in health administration education may assist faculty to better achieve intended student learning outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":75078,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of health administration education","volume":"25 1","pages":"63-72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40011702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}