Competency 1: Analyze health care marketing strategies from a financial and ethical perspective.

• How is economics in health care unique from other industries?
• How is marketing in health care unique from marketing in other industries?
• What marketing challenges might arise should a major health care provider stop offering a product or service that is socially popular but economically unprofitable?
• What marketing elements should be considered before a health care provider eliminates such a product or service?

Submit your reflection.

REFLECTION

Reflect on the following in a minimum of 500 words:

Systems Thinking Analogy

”A Systems Story” provides an example of how complex organizations can be better perceived when applying a systems thinking perspective.

Think of the organization where you work currently or an organization where you have most recently worked. Prepare a 500-word summary of systems thinking and how it might be applied to the organization.

Assume you will be preparing this summary for a front-line worker within the organization.

Provide an analogy of systems thinking and one example of how systems thinking can be applied to the front-line worker’s role within the organization to improve their understanding of a complex situation they may face.

Submit your reflection.