Economic Dynamic of Health Care Delivery Models

This week’s first discussion forum will focus on persons diagnosed with HIV/AIDS.

Select an existing program or service delivery model in your community or surrounding environment (e.g., free-standing clinic, specialized treatment center) that provides services to those impacted by HIV/AIDS. Describe both, direct as well as indirect, costs associated with the program and how the program is evaluated (cost-benefit or cost-effective analysis). Chapter 7 of the course text defines these terms in more detail.

Your initial contribution should be 250 to 300 words in length. Your research and claims must be supported by a minimum of two scholarly sources beyond your course text. Use proper APA formatting for in-text citations and references.

The text book is

Special Populations in Health Care

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There are several existing programs in our community which provides maximum care to those people suffering from HIV/AIDS. The community has set aside a free-standing clinic for providing maximum care for the patients. This clinic provides all services for these patients both direct and indirectly. To start with, direct services are provided through treating HIV/AIDS victims regularly in every month (Compton, & National Academy of Engineering. 2013). For this reason, the patients attend to the clinics without payment in order to receive treatment. Therefore, the patients benefits from the treatment because they do not pay any fee. The main aim why our community is striving at this….

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