Question

In the summary, include the top five issues that impact the development of public health policy and answer the following questions:

Explain how public policy is affected by government insurance and health care reform.

Analyze the role economics plays in public health policy as it relates to right to health care issues.

Explain the public health policy analysis process.

What do you feel are the most important issues regarding public health policy?

Do you have any recommendations to change the process?

Answer 1

Public health policy analysis process

It involves series of steps to identify and evaluate an alternative policies to reduce or resolve public health problems.

Step 1: Problem structuring: Conditions giving rise to a policy problem

Step 2: Prediction: Future consequences of acting on policy alternatives

Step 3: Prescription: Future course of action

Step 4: Monitoring: Monitoring the impact of acting on policy alternatives

Step 5: Evaluation: evaluate the public health problems solved or reduced or not