Describe how you would measure the effectiveness of an integrated human services system that combines the medical, public health, and human services models of care.

Human Services: Model of Service Delivery

Assignment

In a 1 ½- to 3-page paper, using the textbook as the primary reference:

1. Discuss the founding philosophy of the human services model of service delivery.

2. Compare and contrast the medical, public health, and human services models of service delivery:

a. In what manner do these models overlap?

b. In what manner are these models supportive of each other?

3. Describe the relationship between the community mental health center movement and the medical model? (Refer to the movie “Bedlam” if you would like to use it as an example.)

4. Address the ways innovative human service leaders can organize, and deliver services to reduce the fragmentation of services and provide holistic, consumer-centric services.

a. Discuss the current challenges and advantages of telehealth service delivery.

5. Describe how you would measure the effectiveness of an integrated human services system that combines the medical, public health, and human services models of care. Be specific.

6. Locate and discuss a peer-reviewed journal article published in 2020 or 2021 that relates in some way to human service delivery or an integrated model of care.

7. Support your ideas from course resources and external resources. Be sure to use APA style to cite and list in your reference section, at minimum, the textbook, your journal article/s, and movie (if you referred to it).