What Are the Next Big Issues in Health Policy?

What Are the Next Big Issues in Health Policy?
HP609 Health Policy, Politics, and Perspectives
Week 8 Discussion
What Are the Next Big Issues in Health Policy?
Introduction
Assume you have the ability to select one major “new” health policy for implementation. Select a topic from those presented in this week’s readings.
Initial Post
Using 500 to 750 words, complete the following:
Explain why you chose your topic and describe the expected impact on population health within the next five years.
HP609 Health Policy, Politics, and Perspectives
Week 2 Assignment 1
Cost or Quality? Which is the Right Focus for Health Policy?
Instructions
Reflecting on the information found in the videos from Week 1 Learning Materials, write a two-page paper about the fact the current health policy discussions are focused so heavily on cost and relatively little on quality.
HP609 Health Policy, Politics, and Perspectives
Week 2 Assignment 2
Field Experience Log
Instructions
Please submit your field experience log for Week 2 in one Word document to this assignment. Access the Guidelines for the Field Experience Requirement page for full instructions.
Guidelines for the Field Experience Requirement
You must “attend” at least 4 policy events, at least approximately 1 hour in length. Attendance of at least one of these events must be in-person.
Up to 3 of the 4 events may be online and they must have a health policy focus. Online health policy events/ webinars will be posted from which you may choose. In addition, you may identify your own online policy events, but please check with your instructor to make sure the events you choose are eligible for field hours.
The in-person event should cover policy discussion and present different perspectives. An example of an in-person event would be attendance at a local board of health meeting, a local school-board meeting, a legislative hearing or meeting, a meeting by an executive branch agency that falls under your governor, a meeting by advocacy organization or special interest group, or a meetings of a political party, political group, or candidate.
General Guidelines
At each event, take notes, and then write up an account and analysis of each event, using the template for field experience logs (below), and the Field Experience Rubric posted on Moodle.
You are required to complete and post a field event report assignment every other week, in Weeks 02, 04, 06, and 08.
Field Log Guidelines
As a way of demonstrating completion of this course requirement, you must submit, in writing, field logs that detail certain aspects of the event. The template for field experience logs is below.
Each event log should be three to five double-spaced pages of text.
Provide only a brief summary of the event itself.
The analysis section should be 550 to 800 words, and be the most developed component of the report. In the analysis section, you can write about the process of policy being made at this event, and/or you can write about the actual health policy issue being discussed/considered.
Your analysis should reference at least two sources. They can be from the learning materials in this course or other sources, but should be current (within the last 3 months).
Use APA format for citations and references.
Examples of logs are posted on Moodle.
Template for Field Experience Logs
The name of the event/meeting and who has sponsored it.
Describe the steps taken in preparation for the event (beyond listening or attending the event).
Place, date, time, and length of hearing/meeting/event.
Topic under discussion.
Names of participants and their titles (to the extent you can get them).
Brief description of the testimony/meeting/event. (If more than one issue is presented, discuss a sampling of issues.)
Analysis of the health policy issue and its implications for healthcare. Integrate course content and readings in your analysis. This section should be approximately 500 to 750 words