How does third-party payment distort the market for health care? If it is so distorted why does every wealthy country insist on using third-party intermediaries to purchase health care? Why do we carve out a separate payment program for our elder citizens? 

Getting StartedBy using an ecological approach to consider your field experiences, you will use this activity to consider and discuss with classmates any community needs or social problems that your field agency does not address, meaning that there are gaps in services. You will also use this information to discuss how you can respond to advance human rights and social or economic injustice.ResourcesTextbook: The Social Work Practicum: A Guide and Workbook for StudentsBackground InformationThrough this process, students will be exposed to the diversity of human service agencies, services, and clientele. You may find that some of your classmates interact with client populations at their field placements very different from the one(s) with which you interact, which is representative of social work practice as a whole; social workers deliver services and engage clients from a variety of diverse social groups. Knowing about and empathizing with your practice population and being able to share and describe your population and their experiences are important skills as a social worker. Similarly, skills such as assessing your agency’s services with a critical and innovative thought process; discussing your ideas with colleagues; and garnering your colleagues’ feedback are important in social work practice.InstructionsReview the rubric to make sure you understand the criteria for earning your grade.In your textbook, The Social Work Practicum: A Guide and Workbook for Students, read Chapters 7 and 8, “The Community Context of Practice” and “The Social Problem Context of Practice.” Navigate to the threaded discussion and respond to the following discussion prompts:What community issues or social problems are addressed by your field agency, and why are these issues or problems significant? Identify and discuss at least two and discuss how they impact human rights or social, economic or environmental justice.Identify a community need that your agency is not addressing, and discuss how programs or services could be adjusted or expanded to address those needs? What impact is not addressing these issues having on human rights or social, economic or environmental injustice in the community? Explain. Which social problems (poverty unemployment, family breakdown, lack of healthcare, etc.) impact your clients most, (identify at least one) and how your agency can better address those problems through programs or services? Changes can be formal program changes or more informal conversations and skill-building with staff. Be specific about what could be done and how to address the issue you identify.

KINESICS: the study of body motion or body behavior. Emblems: gestures that have a direct verbal translation and can stand alone such as the “ok” sign.Illustrators: gestures that compliment our words such as pointing when giving directions.Regulators: gestures that may prolong or terminate the conversation such as looking at your watch, walking away or nodding and leaning forward.Adaptors: gestures that make you feel more comfortable in a communication situation such as twirling your hair or tapping your fingers.Affect Displays: facial expressions motivated by emotion such as a smile or frown.In this lesson you will venture out and observe the people around you. Tune out what they are saying and then sit back and watch. Take notes on what type of gestures (emblems, regulators, illustrators, adaptors and affect displays) are they using? How often do they use each one? Are they aware of these gestures? You will then use your notes to write a typed two page essay describing what you witnessed. Please let us know where you were, the mall, Starbucks, work etc.. and who was involved, two men sitting at a table… Describe at least ten separate gestures. Please submit in drop box your essay including: What type?What are they conveying? How many repetitions?What are the circumstances? At least two pages, typed-- MINIMUM of 675 wordsDouble spacedParagraphs, not bulletsInclude nonverbal terminologySpecific examples Reminder: All written work must comply with standard English rules, such as proper capitalization, grammar and spelling. The assignment must be submitted by the deadline listed in the calendar.Note: Even though you will see a statement giving you the option of copy/paste or file attachment, you are required to attach the assignment in MS Word format.