Case Study1: Planning for Mental Health Services Assignment
Read/Review: Chapter 11, Case Study 11.2
Respond to the following question sets. Include a description of how you derived the response. 1. What proportion of treated patients with severe mental disorders was treated by general practitioners only? Explain your response.
2. What proportion of patients with severe mental disorders was not treated by health services? Explain your answer with help from the data provided/calculated?
3. Based on the data presented in Table 11.5, what are the resource implications of recommended targets in Queensland for inpatient acute and non-acute beds, ambulatory care clinical staffing, and financial implications of NGO-managed community support services in 2005-2017?
4. In addition to planning agencies, describe additional direct and indirect methods of healthcare planning.
Case Study2 : Prospective Cohort Study Assignment
Read/Review: Chapter 14, Case Study 14.2
Respond to the following question sets. Include a description of how you derived the response. 1. What research question was addressed in this study, or what hypothesis was tested?
2. Why are incidence rates of DM in this study reported per 1,000 person-months rather than per 100 per 1,000 women, and what does person-months mean?
3. What do hazard rations in Table 14.14 indicate? Are these results statistically significant? Explain your answer
4. Why in this study were the estimates of the health outcome (DM) statistically adjusted for variables such as age, maternal risk factors, neonatal outcomes, and postpartum maternal lifestyle?