“Health Demand, Elasticity, Principle and Agent in Determining Demand for Medical Care”  Please respond to the following:

• Use the   U.S. National Library of Medicine Website   and review the glossary of frequently encountered terms in Health Economics. and compare the primary individual factors that influence demand, and explain the significant ways in which each affects the demand curve. Provide at least one (1) example of these factors to support your rationale.
• Imagine a situation where consumers have incomplete information about their health status and about the productivity of medical care. Examine the roles of the principal and the agent in helping consumers to determine the demand for medical care in the described situation. Provide at least one (1) detailed example of such roles in action to support your response.

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1) With communicable diseases (like diarrheal diseases and TB) so prevalent in Sub-Saharan Africa that are treated effectively in the developed world with medicine and vaccination; what fund raising and intervention methods can be taught to the developing world in order to rapidly decrease the rate at which communicable diseases spread?

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Discussion Question:

Do you feel that in the past five years there has been a shift in the prevention of disease? Find an article to discuss this change. Discuss the article. Based on the article and your research which prevention (primary, secondary, or tertiary) should nurses and insurance companies be spending their time and money? Explain and give reasons.  Please relate this to one health condition or disease (obesity, diabetes or heart disease, for example.)

Your initial posting should be 400 words in length and utilize at least one scholarly source other than the textbook.

Read the case study titled “Stopping Outshopping”, located in the online course shell. Then, use the Internet  databases to research similar marketing strategies in the health care industry.

Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:

1. Based on the textbook’s summary of Timothy’s philosophy of continually striving for excellence, determine whether or not Scarlet Hospital was prepared to compete with the establishment in Salem even before the highway improvement mandated such an upgrade in delivery health care services.
2. Examine the potential lessons that the “Stopping Outshopping” case could teach health care executives about complacency.
3. Evaluate the potential value of Michael Porter’s Five Forces analysis and SWOT Analysis for effective decision making, in its ability to help Scarlet Hospital protect its market share and thus decrease the chance of losing patients to other institutions in Salem.
4. Appraise the value of the Balanced Scorecard model in its ability to help Scarlet Hospital executives reinforce its defensive marketing strategy.
5. Propose a one (1) page offensive marketing strategy (i.e. communication, branding, innovation, etc.) that Scarlet Hospital should deploy in order to turn the table on Salam-based health care providers and improve its competitive marketing position.
6. Use at least five (5) quality academic resources. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources. 

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Examine the marketing research process and market segmentation strategies in the health care industry.
• Integrate the SWOT Analysis into viable recommendations to meet the health care services organization’s operating requirements.
• Analyze the components of the balanced scorecard and conduct trend and ratio analysis to assess health strategic marketing.
• Apply Michael Porter’s Five Forces analysis for effective decision making to efficiently utilize health services resources and achieve organizational goals.
• Explain the impact that the population and societal, competitive, and financial forces have on health care services.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in health services strategic marketing.
• Write clearly and concisely about health services strategic marketing using proper writing mechanics.

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using