reduce the use of drugs in the healthcare industry and instead incorporate other measures of care.

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Chapter 10 Assignment

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The assessment of historical, political, economic and sociocultural influences on health is a vital part of healthcare. Social influences include the changes in demographic patterns around the world. For example, due to increased migration, nurses provide care in a multicultural with patients having differing experiences on health and healthcare (Gottlieb et al., 2017). Also, technology is another social change affecting health. Political influences include laws and policies by governments that govern issues as patient safety, confidentiality and the use of information technology such as Electronic Health Records (Staebler et al., 2017). Economic influences include the increasing in competition among healthcare organizations due to globalization and rise of multinational healthcare organizations. Due to these, healthcare organizations find themselves competing for market power, healthcare professional, products and services and for customers among others.

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The measures for the assessment of the quality of care includes three aspects including structure, process and outcome. The purpose of these three aspects is to help the consumer of healthcare to assess and compare the quality of care offered by organizations. Each of these measures help assess and compare a certain aspect of the organization. Structural measure help assess the provider’s systems, capacity and processes of care to provide high quality services. The process measures shows whether a provider has a system for maintenance and improvement of the health of people with a certain disease or general population (Whitehead et al., 2016). The outcome aspect provide information on the effect of healthcare services and interventions provided by a provider.