Human Homeostasis: Health and Disease
	Health Care Proposals Alcohol and Drug Treatment Program Heart Disease Prevention and Treatment Education Programs Focusing on the Prevention of AIDS and Other Sexually Transmitted Diseases Hospital Equipment and Procedures (1994) Prenatal Care Quit Smoking Program Vaccine Programs Programs for Women, Infants, and Children
Adapted from BSCS Biology: A Human Approach; Chapter Six: Human Homeostasis: Health and Disease; Kenall/Hunt Publishing, Dubuque, Iowa; 1997.

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Introduction

Complex living systems rely on a broad range of behavioral responses, in addition to chemical and physiological responses, to help you regulate internal conditions. Understanding and appreciating these conditions and the interactions that keep them within normal limits can contribute to a longer, healthier life. Today, with the growing awareness of the role that health care plays in our society, decision-making requires more information than ever before.

Working in small groups (3-5) on projects, you will have the opportunity to understand health care programs and their issues, collect data from remote sources, and process that data to arrive at conceptual models of how we can manage our health care programs. Since the Internet, particularly the World Wide Web, provides up-to-the-minute information about our world, it is only natural that this resource be effectively utilized, hence the design of this project.

This activity provides an opportunity for you to apply all of the concepts that you have learned in a unique and realistic format. The activity also presents an opportunity for you to acquire information outside of class and to conduct an ethical analysis.

This home page is intended to serve as a starting point for your exploration of "Health Care Proposal." In effect, this is "command central" for the project. Your assignments, in-class exercises, and in some cases, your project reports will be found through links from this springboard. You will also find forums (newsgroups and listservs) as well as other schools on the Web for the exchange of your information on health care programs.

To learn more about how to make the most of your communications on the Internet, I strongly suggest that you read Arlene Rinaldi's The Net: User Guidelines and Netiquette.

Your team is to develop a proposal for one of several health care programs by collecting and evaluating information, by piecing together the information that each team member contributes, and then by developing a convincing arguement. You will need to have a clear idea of what you want to do with the money and how your idea addresses society's needs. In addition, you must explain which of the body's homeostatic mechanisms are affected by your proposed program, and you must justify your proposed budget. The successsful completion of the proposal demands that EVERY team member contribute to its development.

Y ou proposal will be evaluated based on the criteria established by the private foundation and listed on the scoring rubric.

1. Choose an option that interests your team.
   1. Alcohol and Drug Treatment Program
   2. Heart Disease Prevention and Treatment
   3. Education Programs Focusing on the Prevention of AIDS and Other Sexually Transmitted Diseases
   4. Hospital Equipment and Procedures (1994)
   5. Prenatal Care
   6. Quit Smoking Program
   7. Vaccine Programs
   8. Programs for Women, Infants, and Children
      
2. As a team, develop a short description of your program and then decide which team members will gather information for each of the following sections of the proposal:
   1. Homeostasis
   2. Risk Assessment
   3. Ethical Issues
   4. Cost and Budget

   Refer to the J. Nelson Jones Foundation's Guidelines for Proposal Development to review the questions and issues that you must address in each of these sections.

3. Gather all of the information that you will need to develop your part of the proposal. Analyze this information to identify the evidence that will support your arguments. Additional information can be found at LINKS.
   
4. Present to your team the information that you have analyzed, and explain to them how this information will strenthen the proposal.
   
5. As a team discuss this information, and decide what specific data to include in the proposal.
   
6. As a team use the steps presented in the essay Ethical Analysis Copymaster 6.7 (page E87) to conduct an ethical analysis of an issue that is involved in the health care area that you chose. As a team choose ONE issue on which to focus the ethical analysis.
   
7. Write your proposal according to the Guidelines for Proposal Development.
   
8. Submit your proposal.