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Week
3 Assignment 1 – Health Policy: Website Article for Your Healthcare
Organization
Course Objective for
Assignment:
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Demonstrate an
understanding of the global and U.S. healthcare industry in terms of history
and development, and the significance of healthcare service access, delivery,
and quality.
Background:
The information this
week covered several topics on health policy from a U.S. perspective and an
international perspective. The course readings offered details from an
overview of health policy; information on federal and state health
policymaking; and information on international policy and international
policy development. Understanding these concepts is essential for healthcare
administrators as you continue your professional career, the ability to
understand health policy can support with clarifying priorities, establishing
roles as well as expectations, and can assist in the development and delivery
of an organization’s policies and procedures. Additionally, there should be a
basic knowledge of U.S. health policy and international health policy, as you
start your academic journey working on your graduate degree, as these
concepts can be viewed as some of the fundamental tools that assist in
protecting all population’s health outcomes and address some of the core
functions of healthcare from assessment, policy development, and assurance.
Assignment Scenario:
As a director for
your healthcare organization, one of your duties is to participate in writing
articles for your company’s website. This month the executive leadership team
has asked you to write about health policy. The executive leadership team
would like you to address the following items that are bulleted below. You
may be as creative as you would like to present this article. However, you
must create your article using Microsoft Word.
Your article needs
to provide information on the following items associated to U.S. health
policy and the importance of having an international perspective in health
policy development:
Aspect 1: Discuss the key characteristics of health policy, explain
the major determinants of health, and describe how the social determinants of
health influence policy development.
Aspect 2: Identify at least two major types of U.S. health policy,
provide an example of each type, and describe how these types of health
policy can affect patient care associated to one of the following social
determinates of health: economic stability, physical environment, education,
food, community, social context, or healthcare system.
Aspect 3: Describe why it is important to have an international
perspective in health policy development and discuss how international policy
development may influence the U.S. population from one of the following
views: immigration, public health, or regulatory.
Aspect 4: Discuss why it is important for healthcare administrators to
understand health policy, explain how these concepts can support an
administrator’s operations and provide a policy example that you may create
as an administrator, with an explanation to why the policy is needed, and how
the policy may influence one of the social determinants of health. Note:
Example – an administrator may assist in the creation of policies for an
organization, within a specific department, from a community perspective, or
regulatory requirement.
Aspect
5: The article should be presented in APA
7th Edition formatting, 3 – 4 pages excluding a coverage page and a reference
page. Also at least three credible sources with correlating in-text
citations. One of the credible sources must come from your own research,
not from the sources or references provided within the weekly content.
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