Research Guides: HTH325 Healthcare Delivery Systems: Your Assignment

Your Assignment

Compare & Contrast
Annotated Bibliography

Comparing and contrasting the health system of the United States with either France, Germany, or Japan.

Students are to find a minimum of four (3) peer-reviewed resources published within the last seven (7) years. Additional references can exceed the seven (7) year requirement.

In several sentences, not to exceed 250 words, compare the access to healthcare services in the United States with that of your selected country. Consider factors such as wait times, provider availability, and health outcomes. Which country do you believe is superior to the other country’s health system?
In sentence form, include two strengths and two weaknesses of the U.S. healthcare system compared to your chosen country.
The U.S. spends approximately ________% of its GDP on healthcare, and $_____ per capita (per person) on healthcare annually. How does this compare to the other country that you are comparing the U.S. with (more or less) than your chosen comparison country.
How does the role of government in healthcare differ between the U.S. and your selected country?
In several sentences, not to exceed 250 words, discuss how healthcare is viewed as a human right in your chosen country compared to the U.S.

List the articles from ProQuest that you used. Which questions did you initially get correct? Next, provide an annotated bibliography that follows APA style, 7th edition. An annotated bibliography is a compilation of citations for books, articles, and other documents, each accompanied by a short (typically around 150 words) paragraph called an annotation. This annotation describes and evaluates the source, highlighting its relevance, accuracy, and quality to guide the reader.

For more information on annotated bibliographies, see the following guide:

Write an Annotated Bibliography

Choosing Keywords and Setting Up a Search Strategy

Use the following sites only to find keywords and phrases that you can then use as search terms when searching for articles and books.

National Institutes of Health
A part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, NIH is the largest biomedical research agency in the world. NIH’s mission is to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability.
World Factbook
Provides information on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
World Health Organization
Provides leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends.

Bulletin of the World Health Organization by the World Health Organization
International journal of public health with a special focus on developing countries.

health care (noun): a set of actions by a person or persons to maintain or improve the health of a patient/consumer

Examples:

I have developed a plan for my patient’s health care.
A heavier emphasis on preventive health care by patients and providers will improve health outcomes and quality of life.
The RNs in this practice provide the majority of the health care for their patients.
Special case: hyphenated adjectival form of “health care”
- Health-care services have become more expensive and more complex over the last 50 years.
- The health-care needs of the patients in this hospital wing are much higher than the needs of the average patient.

healthcare (noun or adjective): a system, industry, or field that facilitates the logistics and delivery of health care for patients/consumers

Examples:

Noun
- I hope to work in healthcare one day.
- Healthcare’s number and diversity of players grew significantly over the course of the twentieth century.
- Modern healthcare requires both skilled clinicians and savvy, experienced business professionals to be effective and successful.
Adjective
- The healthcare IT industry has been booming as a result of the strong demand for population analytics and effective electronic health record (EHR) systems.
- Healthcare reform has been a tough but important process to address many of the systematic failures of the healthcare system.
- Many former Wall Street professionals are moving into healthcare finance as a result of the industry’s massive growth.

Source: The Final Word: Healthcare vs. Health Care
https://www.arcadia.io/final-word-healthcare-vs-health-care/ (original link; no longer works, 8/25/2025)

Use quotation marks around phrases and an asterisk * to truncate a word (except in PubMed):
- "infant mortality"
- mortality AND "cardiovascular disease"
- "life expectancy" AND male* (the * will search for male or males)
- "life expenctancy" AND female*
- percentage AND "normal body mass"
- "health care delivery system*"
- GDP AND ("health care expenditure*" OR "health care cost*")
- healthcare AND (benefit* OR limitation*)
  Although the article may talk about these but never mention the words "benefit" or "limitations", think of some terms that may be a "benefit" or a "limitation". e.g., Germany AND "health care insurance" AND "United States"
You may have to search separately and then compare two articles, e.g. search "United States" AND "infant mortality" then search for Germany AND "infant morality" and compare.
Write out "United States" (do not use US or U.S.)
Limit your search by date range.
Limit the article's language to English.