Follow the links below and read the articles regarding nutrition. Upon completion of the articles, write a 2-3 paragraph response that compares your current food and beverage consumption patterns with healthy food and beverage suggestions. If your current choices do not meet the “healthy” standards, discuss some changes that you might need and/or plan to make to become a healthier eater/drinker.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/27/health/27brody.html

http://michaelpollan.com/articles-archive/six-rules-for-eating-wisely/

1. Until recently, the US Dollar had been appreciating. This was occurring as the growth rates of European and some Asian economies were slowing. Based on these two trends only, how would the rate of growth for the US economy change from its previous levels (provide your basis for this). What should the effect of these two factors be on interest rates, the S&P 500 index, and commodity prices (briefly provide your basis for each of these changes). DO NOT ASSUME ANY ACTIONS BY THE FEDERAL RESERVE IN FORMULATING YOUR ANSWER.

Over the years, health and human services have evolved to meet the needs of the population. As the population and environments continue to grow and change, so do health and human services. What worked well 50 years ago, may not be appropriate now. For this essay, you will discuss the changes that health and human services have undergone through the years and different situations that impact the services.

Identify and describe one change that took place within the health and human services system and discuss how that change impacted the delivery of care and health outcomes.

Assume a sharp increase in government deficit occurs and it is financed by issuing new bonds. Using the supply and demand in the bond market model, what would be the resulting effect on the interest rate? Explain your answer.

Your explanation shall at least include the following: (i) specify whether this shock refers to shifter/determinant of the demand curve or the supply curve, (ii) what happens to such curve, (iii) what is the impact on the market equilibrium--whether it remains the same or changes--, and (iv) what the effect is on the interest rate.

1. As you begin your practicum course, reflect on your professional career and consider the reasons you are interested in the nurse executive role. What are the aspects of your professional career that have led you to the goal of becoming a nurse executive?

2. Significance of the Resistance to change based on literature that speaks to the relevancy of the concept selected in terms of interprofessional leadership.

3. Provide examples of measures that APNs can collaborate with direct care nurses in implementing evidence-based changes to improve health literacy in practice.

Businesses hold inventories of goods, partly as finished products and partly as goods-in-process and raw materials. Suppose that we think of inventories as a type of capital, which enters into the production function. Then changes in these stocks represent investment in inventories. (Typically, economists assume that the rate of depreciation on inventories is near zero.)

1. How does an increase in the real interest rate affect the quantity of inventories that businesses want to hold? What happens, therefore, to inventory investment?

2. Consider temporary adverse shock to the production function. What happens to the amount of inventory investment?

Imagine yourself in a wheelchair and take a walk around your neighborhood. (If you can, ask a friend to push you in a wheelchair.)

1. What did you notice?

2. Would you have any difficulties getting everywhere you want to go?

3. What changes would you like to make in your community to benefit someone who uses a wheelchair? Why?

4. Did you observe anything that would be a regulatory or legal concern? (Keep the Americans with Disabilities Act accommodations in mind.)

Focus now on determinants of health. What are these? Why are they so important? How do they impact health? Review the data we have examined and think about changes we can make in the community that can have an impact on health. The vast majority of determinants of health exist outside the realm of medical care or public health. Identify an initiative designed to positively impact determinants of health. How was it mounted? By whom? Has it been successful? Why or why not? By what measure? Cite evidence of what is taking place to address the issues.

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1. Exempting the interest on state and local government bonds from federal income taxation is the lowest cost way for the federal government to subsidize state and local borrowing costs." Evaluate this statement.

2. "If the Baumol hypothesis is correct concerning local government finances, and if the price elasticity of demand for local services is inelastic, then we are in trouble--eventually, spending for education, police and fire protection, and sanitation will require half of our incomes." Evaluate this concern. What changes could occur to prevent this from happening?