Question

Advocacy has always been an important piece of the healthcare professional's role. But, with globalization, widening advocacy efforts have become increasingly important.

After completing the readings for this module, use your journal assignment to explain what global health is and how it relates to population health. Refer to the course outcomes and reflect on how they apply to your current or future profession. In relation to the patient or client, what is your role as a healthcare professional? What do you know and understand about advocacy? What opportunities for advocacy do you see in your current or future career?

What questions do you have about the role of advocacy in your career?

e-book: Health Policymaking in the United States
The selected readings from this e-book, located in the Shapiro Library, support you in both the journal assignment by providing context on the health policymaking process in the United States.

Chapters 1, 9, and 10

Chapter 1: Health and Health Policy

• What are the challenges related to health policy?
• What differences exist between the various forms of health policy?
• What is the impact of policy on health?

Chapter 9: Policy Modification

• What is the role of policy modification in policymaking?
• What are the pros and cons of incrementalism as it relates to policymaking?
• What improvements would you make to the policymaking process?

Chapter 10: Building Policy Competence for Health Professionals

• How can policy competence support your role as a health professional?
• What steps can healthcare professionals take to influence policy?

Answer 1

Ans) While today is a time of growth, it is also a time of growing pains. Duly, the medical field currently faces four prominent challenges: service integration, service quality, Internet connected medical device security and publicly sustainable pharmaceutical pricing.

- In a search for the right type of health insurance plan for yourself and your family members, you will find that there are two basic types of health insurance, indemnity and managed care. Managed care has a different set of rules and regulations when it comes to its coverage type.

- Health Policy: More Than Just Health Care Policy
Because clinical care is just one factor that influences health, health policy is more than just health care policy. By affecting the drivers of health, public policies that do not initially appear health-related can have a significant health impact.

- The policy modification phase allows for all prior decisions made within policymaking to be revisited and perhaps changed. This phase exists because policies are established and operate in a dynamic world.

- Incrementalism is a method of working by adding to a project using many small incremental changes instead of a few (extensively planned) large jumps. In public policy, incrementalism is the method of change by which many small policy changes are enacted over time in order to create a larger broad based policy change.

- A policy established and carried out by the government goes through several stages from inception to conclusion. These are agenda building, formulation, adoption, implementation, evaluation, and termination.

- The skills needed by healthcare professionals were determined by a collaborative effort of healthcare leaders organized under the Healthcare Leadership Alliance. The skills are grouped under five core competencies: communication, leadership, professionalism, knowledge, and business skills.

- Steps that health professionals will take to influence policy:

• Learn how policy is developed.
• Learn who is participating in policy development and make contact with them.
• Explore resources related to policy formulation.
Investigate health policy agendas that local legislators have established for their terms in office.