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· Combine the disease overview, review of the education program for
the disease, and
your proposal to improve the program into a paper according to the
following guidelines:
o Identify the disease and describe characteristics of the group most
affected by the
disease.
o Discuss the major causes of the disease, which body systems are
affected, and how
those body systems are affected by the disease.
o Discuss risk factors that can be controlled and how to control them,
as well as risk
factors that cannot be controlled.
o Discuss the evolution of treatment options available to patients; give
a brief history of
treatment procedures over time.
o Describe current treatment methods, and include what patients can
expect in regards
to medical tests and procedures, equipment involved, therapies, and
medications.
o Discuss future treatment options based upon current research.
o Evaluate the effectiveness of the existing education program you
found.
· What kind of information and patient support is available in the
program?
· How is the information delivered?
· Is the information readily available to those who need it most?
· Is the information comprehensive, helpful, supportive, etc.?
· What is being done well?
· What needs to be done better? How can it be accomplished?
· What new features would you add to the program in order to improve
it?
o Propose a new, effective way to get word of the improved program
out to greater
numbers of the targeted population.