B. Assignment Requirements
This assignment should be submitted as a MS PowerPoint presentation.
Label the slides and sections as directed below.
Use proper grammar, capitalization, and spelling.
Make the presentation creative and eye-catching.
C. Assignment Directions:
Create a 5-10 slide MS PowerPoint presentation with the information listed
below.
Include APA (7th edition) formatted in-text citations, in the slides, by the
information from your references.
Include an APA (7th ed.) formatted reference list on the last slide(s) of your
presentation.
This presentation should be neat, attractive, and professional. Feel free to
include relevant images/pictures in this presentation.
HEA 2301 F23 Healthcare System Presentation Dr. S. K. Connors Page 2 of 6
The Healthcare System Presentation should have the following sections:
Answer the questions below with short sentences.
o It should be very clear when you are answering each statement/question.
o Label the sections with the bolded headings and letters below (except
the title slide).
o If a section takes more than one slide, label it the bolded section name
and add “continued”.
o You should replace the word “country” with your target country.
1. Title slide (1 slide)
a. Your first and last name
b. Healthcare System Presentation
c. HEA 2301
d. Fall 2023 8W1
2. Introduction to the Country (1-2 slides)
a. Describe where the country is located.
b. Describe the population size of the country.
c. Describe the income level of the country. These categories are
determined by the World Bank (Hamadeh, Van Rompaey, Metreau, &
Eapen, 2022).
i. Is it a low, lower middle, upper middle, or high income country?
3. Description of the Country’s Healthcare System (1-3 slides)
a. Does the healthcare system have a single or multiple payers?
i. Who are the payers?
b. Who owns the majority of the healthcare facilities (the government or
private entities)?
c. Describe how the health care system funded.
i. Be very specific about where the funding comes from and how it is
collected. Is it funded from taxes (identify what type; payroll,
income, etc.), government funds, covered individuals, etc. and/or a
combination of sources (identify which sources)?
d. Who has access to health care? It is universal coverage or do only certain
individuals have health care covered?
e. What type of global health care system does the country have?
i. National health insurance, national health system (Beveridge),
socialized health insurance (Bismarck), out-of-pocket, or a
combination? If it is a combination system, describe which health
care systems make up the combination system.
f. What is one (1) advantage of the health care system?
g. What is one (1) disadvantage of the health care system?
4. Description of the country’s health/health care indicators compared to
those in the U.S.
Health indicators are measures designed to summarize information
related to health and health care systems. They provide actionable information to
compare health systems of different regions, states, or countries (Canada
Institute of Health Information [CIHI], n.d.); Organization for Economic Co-
operation and Development [OECD], 2021. Health system indicators include
health risk factors (smoking, alcohol, obesity), life expectancy, infant mortality
rate, mortality rate, percentage of GDP used for healthcare spending, and many
other measures (CIHICanada, 2016; OECD, 2021). In this section you will
compare health care system indicators between for your country and the U.S.
Answer the following questions/statements. You must provide the actually
numbers, written out, in the answers. You will not earn credit for including only a
chart or graph. It must be very obvious when you are answering each
question/statement.
a. Find and report the percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) that each
country spends on healthcare. Which country spends a lower percentage
of GDP on healthcare?
b. Find and report the life expectancy of each country. Which country has
longer life expectancy?
c. Find and report the infant mortality rate of each country. Which country
has the lowest infant mortality rate?
d. Based on the statistics from this section, which health system is less
expensive and has healthier citizens?
5. Reference List in APA 7th ed. formatted on the last slide(s) of the presentation.
