Research Blog

Throughout my beginning steps of research, I have learned how important what you search can be. This came particularly true the other day at my local library, I was trying to find books relevant to my topic of nationally funded healthcare and wouldn't you believe, there aren't a lot of books out there called that. In my hunt, I used boolean search terms to find books that could somehow be related. For example, I searched terms such as; Healthcare AND politics because I have found they go together when considering my subject and healthcare OR affordable care act. As for more specific searches, I have looked up, healthcare, affordable care act, politics in healthcare, us healthcare, national healthcare systems, prescriptions, and so on. The search for relevant words seems endless and I think anything related to healthcare can pull up something interesting that gives a unique spin on my research thus far.

For this assignment we were meant to take a look at our local universities online database of articles and find one relevant to our subject. I found one called, Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care. While one might look at the title and think it could be a bit dry, it was in fact rather interesting. See, it opened up a new lense for myself when considering why national healthcare is either a good or bad thing for the country and why it fails and succeeds in different parts of the world. I think when you consider national healthcare you, or at least I did, look at it at in ways of money. What pressure it would put on the low, middle, and high classes of our society and how much of a dent it would make in people's wallets comapred to the difference it would make. Of course I considered how a nationally funded system of health care could help people who are poor or homeless however, I had never considered how it might (and does already) affect di...

My train of research: ->National Healthcare on Wikipedia ->National Health Service Wikipedia ->National Health Insurance Corporation Wikipedia ->National Insurance Act 1911 ->The Obama Plan https://web.archive.org/web/20100105142032/http://www.barackobama.com/issues/healthcare/ ->Healthcare for America NOW! http://healthcareforamericanow.org/ ->Doctors Debate Universal Health Care: Pros and Cons From the Experts http://thesurvivaldoctor.com/2013/02/14/doctors-debate-universal-health-care-pros-and-cons-from-the-experts/ ->One hundred and eighteen years of the German health insurance system: are there any lessons for middle- and low-income countries? http://www.ministerial-leadership.org/sites/default/files/resources_and_tools/10%20german%20health%20insu.pdf ->Social health insurance: Key factors affecting the transition towards universal coverage https://www.who.int/health_financing/documents/shi_key_factors.pdf ->Health Po...

What do you believe is the biggest problem facing…             …this country? I believe the biggest problems facing our country are political divide, global warming, national healthcare/unaffordable healthcare.              …your local community? I believe the things that affect the country also affect our local community however overpopulation, homeless populations, lack of affordable housing are also big issues that need discussion.             …people your age? The big things that affect people my age are affordable housing, unaffordable healthcare, higher education expenses, and global warming.            …the next generation? Things that will affect the next generation are global warming, overpopulation, war and peace, debt, etc.            ...

Welcome! This blog is all about research and is a project of mine for school. Although this is not a typical blog filled with recipes or crafts it will hopefully be a platform in which we can learn together.  You probably want to know a little about me at this point, well, I am studying graphic design at UCDenver and absolutely love it. A few years ago I was living in Steamboat Springs, CO. taking some time off of life and school, working minimum wage jobs and at a bank. Although some would say this is the life (living in a ski town and in the mountains), I would agree to disagree, I have big dreams for my life and living that life was helping accomplish none of them. What are those big dreams you ask? Well, I hope to have a family one day and live abroad, traveling all over, exploring the world and different cultures. Opening not only my eyes to the world but my families as well. I also hope to be successful in my design career and have hobbies that help expand my comfort zone...