vaccine hesitancy among parents (for their children) as well as among adults (for themselves) exists in the United States which may limit the country's ability to control the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. As a health psychologist, you have been given the job of using a theory of health behavior change to design a multi-level public intervention to increase the rate of COVID-19 vaccine uptake once it has been found to be effective. Using one or more theories of health behavior change (see Health Behavior Theories in Gurung, please briefly describe 3 behavior change strategies that encompass multiple levels including strategies that, 1) medical and other social service providers can use with individual patients/families to get them to get the vaccine and/or vaccinate their children; 2) social strategies, including strategies for changing social norms about the benefits of getting the vaccine, and 3) structural strategies including ease of obtaining the vaccine such as the availability, price, amount of time required, etc. Please be specific regarding which theory (or theories) you are using and the corresponding strategy. For example, using the Theory of Planned Behavior, you might focus on changing parental attitudes about getting the vaccine by creating an instagram posts/videos for parents that focus on the way they value their children's education. The video would demonstrate that by getting the vaccine, it will enable their child - and their child's friends - to be able to attend school in-person. Describe 3 health behavior strategies and the corresponding theory of health behavior change for increasing the uptake of the potential COVID-19 vaccine.

Over the past decade, the federal government has taken significant steps to encourage the development of ethanol and other fuels made from plants as a partial replacement for gasoline. These actions have been undertaken by politicians in the midst of public concerns about the dependence on foreign oil, war in the Middle East, and global warming. The primary input for ethanol production is corn. In 2011, the 13.9 billion gallons of ethanol produced in the United States consumed over 20 percent of the domestic corn supply. Suppose that the government has just passed new legislation mandating increased annual pro- duction of corn ethanol. You manage the Hog Heaven restaurant chain. Your restaurant chain, which has about 300 outlets throughout the United States, specializes in barbecue pork dishes but also offers chicken, beef, and vegetarian meals. Currently about 80 percent of your revenue comes from your pork dishes. The price of pork has a major impact on your costs. You are concerned that the federal promotion of ethanol might have an impact on pork prices and the profitability of your restaurant chain. Feed cost is typically about 50 to 60 percent of the total cost of production of pork producers. About 80 percent of the feed that hogs consume is corn.

Use basic supply and demand analysis to illustrate the likely effect of the government’s man- dated increase of ethanol production on (1) corn prices and (2) pork prices and What actions might you consider given the results of your analysis?

Peripatetic? Enterprises, a U.S.? import-export trading? firm, is considering its international tax situation. Tax law in the United States requires U.S. corporations to pay taxes on their foreign earnings at the same rate as profits earned in the United? States; this rate is currently 47 % ?However, a full tax credit is given for the foreign taxes paid up to the amount of the U.S. tax liability. Peripatetic has major operations in? Poland, where the tax rate is 15%?, and in? Sweden, where the tax rate is 58%. The? profits, which are fully and immediately?repatriated, and foreign taxes paid for the current year are shown? here:

a. What is the U.S. tax liability on the earnings from the Polish subsidiary assuming the Swedish subsidiary did not? exist?

b. What is the U.S. tax liability on the earnings from the Swedish subsidiary assuming the Polish subsidiary did not? exist?

c. Under U.S. tax? law, Peripatetic is able to pool the earnings from its operations in Poland and Sweden when computing its U.S. tax liability on foreign earnings. Total EBIT is thus ?$178 million and the total host country taxes paid are ?$68.41 million. What is the total U.S. tax liability on foreign? earnings? Show how this relates to the answers in parts ?(a?) and (b?).

Background: Based on the National Center of Health Statistics, the proportion of babies born at low birth weight (below 2,500 grams) in the United States is roughly .078, or 7.8% (based on all the births in the United States in the year 2002). A study was done in order to check whether smoking by pregnant women increases the risk of low birth weight. In other words, the researchers wanted to check whether the proportion of babies born at low birth weight among women who smoked during their pregnancy is higher than the proportion in the general population. The researchers followed a sample of 400 women who had smoked during their pregnancy and recorded the birth weight of the newborns. Based on the data, the p-value was found to be .119.

Write down the null and alternative hypotheses (H_oand H_a) that are being tested here.

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Based on the p-value, what is your conclusion (use .05 significance level)?

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Can we conclude that the results of this study provide evidence that second-hand smoking does not increase the risk of low birth weight? Why or why not?

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1. Veterinarians often use nonsteriodal anti-inflammatory drugs to treat lameness in horses. A group of veterinary researchers wanted to find out how widespread the practice was in the United States. They obtained a list of all veterinarians treating large animals, including horses. They sent questionaires to all the veterinarians on the list. Such a survey is called a census. The response rate was 40%. What is the population of interest? A. Population of interest is all veterinarians treating large animals. B. The population of all veterinarians in the United States treating large animals, including horses. C. The population of interest is all veterinarians. D. All of the answer choices are correct. 2. Researchers have noted that children who learn to play a musical instrument through taking lessons have higher average SAT scores, higher average GPA and higher average class rank. The various measures of academic success described are examples of: A. confounding variables B. Response variables C. None of the answer choices is correct D. Explanatory variables 3. Each month, the census bureau mails survey forms to 250,000 households asking questions about the people living in the household and about such things as motor vehicles and housing costs. Telephone calls are made to households that don't return the form. In one month, responses were obtained from 240,000 of the households contacted. If the household does not return the form and cannot be contacted by telephone, this is: A. undercoverage B. Simple random sampling C. volunteer bias D. nonresponse

This is one question with part (a) and part (b) being the solution to the problem.

This problem is based upon two separate, distinct industries, each of which has ten companies.  Industry X has companies A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, and J.  Industry Y has companies M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, and V.  These two industries are completely unrelated. There is no, absolutely no competition between any of the companies in Industry X with any of the companies in Industry Y.  This question is to examine the degree of market concentration, and hence the competitive nature, within each industry.

Part A:    Calculate the HHI in Industry X if Company I files to acquire Company B.  Then, using the United States Department of Justice guidelines, discuss whether or not the DOJ could move to block the acquisition?  

Part B:    Calculate the HHI in Industry Y if Company V files to merge with Company O. Then, using the United States Department of Justice guidelines, discuss whether or not the DOJ could move to block the merger?

1-If we are to have a truly egalitarian society, citizens must recognize the racist history of the United States and the social conditions that perpetuate contemporary inequalities. To do this, one must develop:

2-Why are poor women LESS likely to marry?

3-Which of the following is one of the basic principles of social stratification?

4-What is the relationship between the American Dream and the social class system by which the United States is stratified?

1D1: Nutritional status of the older adult 6 6 unread replies. 6 6 replies. In 2011 the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) introduced the "My Plate" initiative, to help Americans make healthy food choices and to be active every day. Recently, new guidelines were released, and the initiative was updated to include, "MyPlateMyWins!" Initial Discussion Post: Review the following resource: United States Department of Agriculture: ChooseMyPlate.gov. (2015). Older adults (Links to an external site.) Links to an external site. . Retrieved from http://www.choosemyplate.gov/older-adults Mrs. Jenkins is a 70-year-old patient at the primary care provider for a routine visit. As you are gathering data prior to showing her into an examination room, you note her height and weight, of 65 inches and 101 pounds. Calculate Mrs. Jenkins’ BMI and interpret the result. Discuss two additional specific assessments you would perform, and why the information you obtain in these assessments might be a concern to the RN. Based on these assessments: What education would you provide related to this concern? Identify a member of the health care team with whom you would collaborate about this concern. Be sure to use evidence from the assigned text or website, or other professional sources in your answer. Base your initial post on your readings and research of this topic. Your initial post must contain a minimum of 250 words. References, citations, and repeating the question do not count towards the 250-word minimum.

Advocacy has always been an important piece of the healthcare professional's role. But, with globalization, widening advocacy efforts have become increasingly important.

After completing the readings for this module, use your journal assignment to explain what global health is and how it relates to population health. Refer to the course outcomes and reflect on how they apply to your current or future profession. In relation to the patient or client, what is your role as a healthcare professional? What do you know and understand about advocacy? What opportunities for advocacy do you see in your current or future career?

What questions do you have about the role of advocacy in your career?

e-book: Health Policymaking in the United States
The selected readings from this e-book, located in the Shapiro Library, support you in both the journal assignment by providing context on the health policymaking process in the United States.

Chapters 1, 9, and 10

Chapter 1: Health and Health Policy

• What are the challenges related to health policy?
• What differences exist between the various forms of health policy?
• What is the impact of policy on health?

Chapter 9: Policy Modification

• What is the role of policy modification in policymaking?
• What are the pros and cons of incrementalism as it relates to policymaking?
• What improvements would you make to the policymaking process?

Chapter 10: Building Policy Competence for Health Professionals

• How can policy competence support your role as a health professional?
• What steps can healthcare professionals take to influence policy?

Question 7: Balance of Payments

To answer this question, you must obtain data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), on the U.S. balance of payment (BOP) tables. Go to interactive tables to obtain annual data for 2019 (Note: the default setting is for quarterly data). It may take you some time to become familiar with how to navigate the website. You need only refer to Table 1 on the BOP accounts. Using the BOP data, compute the following for the United States (rounding to the nearest billion):

(a) Trade balance (TB), net factor income from abroad (NFIA), net unilateral transfers (NUT), and current account (CA)

(b) Financial account (FA)

(c) Official settlements balance (OSB), referred to as “U.S. official reserve assets” and “Foreign official assets in the U.S.”

(d) Nonreserve financial account (NRFA)
(e) Balance of payments (BOP). Note that this may not equal zero because of statistical

discrepancy. Verify that the discrepancy is the same as the one reported by the BEA.

(f) Gross national expenditure (GNE), gross national income (GNI), and gross national dis- posable income (GNDI)

(g) In macroeconomics, we often assume the U.S. economy is a closed economy when building models that describe how changes in policy and shocks affect the economy. Based on the previous data (BOP and GDP), do you think this is a reasonable assumption to make? Do international transactions account for a large share of total transactions (involving goods and services, or income) involving the United States?