Essays on Fung

Abstract

Medical care is an obligation of the government in the United States because all citizens are entitled to the access of healthcare services. Nonetheless, the healthcare programs are not only executed on the premise of providing health services alone; but such services are to be affordable as well. Medicare part D refers to the program where the United States federal government subsidizes the cost of drugs prescribed for the patients. It also covers the drugs and the associated insurance premiums, and all these are executed to benefit the healthcare beneficiaries. This paper analyzes the Medicare Part D and the ...

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Introduction The main idea behind the mind of every investor is to achieve long- term growth of his or her business by serving a wider market to increase profitability. However, the existence of various factors such as competition and government regulations tends to impede the successful accomplishment of most investors’ goal. Besides, the efficiency of the strategies implemented by different investors constitutes fundamental hindrances to the realization of their long-term objectives. Therefore, efficient management is crucial to realize business expansion. Additionally, the consideration of other factors with a significant influence on the business environment is essential when formulating the ...

Introduction

Advanced practice psychiatric nurses (APPNs) are advanced practice physicians specialized in providing multifaceted roles in mental health care. Changes in the delivery of health-care have promoted for the integration of the advanced psychiatric nurse into psychiatric practice to address a number of mental and other psychiatric health problems formerly met primarily by the psychiatrist alone (Theccanat, 2015). Also, it positions the APNs in a broader position to provide an array of psychiatric and mental health-related services not only in their health care centers but also in the wider society. In this paper, we analyze some of the critical roles ...

Literature Review: Principle of Equivalence

List of References: 12 Literature Review Principle of Equivalence Background Usually, whenever a property is purchased or acquired from a willing or non-willing seller, it is expected that a fair compensation is given to those whose interests are deprived. However, it may be difficult to determine what a fair compensation constitutes. In some cases claimants may receive more or less compensation compared to the value of their property. In other instances, the monetary sum provided may be a huge sum, but it may not cover non-quantifiable losses such as psychological and social implications. As experience has shown, there are ...

Introduction

In the recent years, any discussion about the clothing fashion style of children mainly centers on adultification of children’s clothing. The adult clothing brand recently tends to compete and make clothes for children, and this has resulted into cartoons becoming an integral part of clothes for children. Actually, the various children’s clothing brands has become multi-choice, multi-styled and more diversified. They are becoming more similar to adult clothing. The adultification of children’s clothing can be term as the ways in which the attire for children was viewed by parents and the industry progressively to duplicate the ...

The campaign dubbed “healthier you” (HY) seeks to bring together various stakeholders from the Northeastern University to fight unhealthy eating and especially obesity. The realization that the university’s dining halls do not offer the students healthy food choices informs the campaign. The dining halls are filled with junk foods which are likely to make the students obese. The root of the problem of unhealthy eating in the university can be traced back to the policies that the university applies when renting out university space. Over the years, the policies look into whether an individual or an organization renting ...

Geographic Regions

China is the third largest country in the world after Russia and Canada, and it is located along the Pacific Ocean coastline in the Southeast Asia. The country covers 9.6 million square kilometers similar to the United States (Harbach et al. 2010). China is boarded by fourteen nations, which includes Laos, India, Korea, Bhutan, Vietnam, Pakistan, Napa, Burma, Tajikistan, Russia, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan. On the interior side of the country, China has 22 governing provinces and the most relevant cities include Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and Xian. Shanghai is the largest city and is called the ...

Most people realize that quality of life is improved with there are friends and family for support, feedback, and entertainment. As the lifestyles of many become more hectic and centered on careers and technology, consciously creating social connections may fall fairly low on the list of priorities. However, recent studies indicate that ties to other people not related to material gain are one of the most influential factors for predicting longevity, health, and happiness (Leung, Kier, Fung, Fung & Sproule, 2010; Rodríguez-Pose & von Berlepsch, 2013). Aside from the self-perception of being happy, there are other benefits attributed to the ...

There is no service or manufacturing organization that can work alone or in isolation. It always needs suppliers and a supply chain in order to function in an effectual manner. Nowadays, realties as well as trends that are prevailing in the global economy are compelling the organizations to ensure management of supply chain as an essential element of business strategy. In recent years, most organization have started relying on external supply sources, by using outsourcing in order to reduce the cost, and utilize major competencies. Supply chain perspective of operations management has become important because of the role that ...

Global Financial Crisis in the US

Introduction It was hard for the economists, professional analysts and policymakers among other players in the financial industry to foresee the crisis in the US mortgage lending industry in 2007 that resulted in the world's worst economic recession in two years' time (Sher and Iyanatul 2010). Initially, there was a housing bubble characterized by high house prices, low-interest rates, more support for subprime mortgage and increased speculation by the buyers (Acharya and Schnabl 2010). Eventually, there were decline of house market prices, increased lending rates and increased default and foreclosures by the mortgagors (John 2009). Notably, by mid-2008 the ...

LITERATURE REVIEW

Literature review When in the MSDI conference that was conducted in the late 1980s and at the beginning of 1990s, the concept of brand equity was discussed then participants agreed that there are two sorts of brand equity that includes financial brand equity and consumer based brand equity. Financial brand equity is related to the value of the company as it the brand of the consumer is treated as an asset. However, the consumer based brand equity (CBBE) is related to the value of customers because the brand adds convenience in the lives of customers (Cant, Strydom & Jooste, 2009). ...

Industry: Online Retailing in China

Industry: Online Retailing in China

Background

Despite the concerns about China’s decelerating economy, the country has remarkable ratings in the online retailing industry. According to McHugh (2015), a recent report released by Forrester Research established that online sales in China amounted to about $307 billion in 2013. In 2014, the Chinese e-commerce giant, Alibaba Group, generated approximately $25 billion dollars in the largest initial public offer (IPO) in the world’s history (McHugh, 2015). According to Fung Business Intelligence Centre (2013), online retailing is rapidly transforming China’s commercial landscape. Fung Business Intelligence Centre (2013) further notes that consumers ...

Executive summary

It is evident that Malaria remains to be one of the main issues affecting children in Sierra Leone. Essentially, the high child mortality rate resulting from Malaria infections in Sierra Leone has become a critical concern. This position has been reiterated by the National Health Sector Strategic Plan. The organization revealed that Malaria has become both a health, social and economic challenge to the country. In essence, it has been identified that the disease is the primary causative agent of children deaths in the nation. Although there are other diseases that account for children deaths, Malaria still remains a ...