Mary Carnahan
HA 400 Health Care Planning and Implementation
October 30, 2015
Week One What I learned this week in “Developing a Health Promotion Program Part I” Chapter one “Health Promotion in the New Century” what I learned in this chapter is how by 2020 health care spending will reach $5.2 trillion dollars and consume 21 percent of GDP. I also learned of two types of health insurance; casualty or social. Casualty insurance: is found in car or home insurance and has worked very well as long as most people practice safety measures concerning automobile and home use. Social insurance usually ignores risks and shares the costs equally among participant. Chapter two “Epidemiology as the Catalyst in