Public Health Issue Paper

HCM 320 Milestone Three Guidelines and Rubric Overview: For Milestone Three, you will address the critical elements in the Evaluation of Policy section of your final project and write a letter to the stakeholders involved to describe and defend your proposed policy. Stakeholders could include policy makers, healthcare providers, insurers, and healthcare consumers. Your letter should include background on the key health issue and your assumption of the positive and negative impacts inferred by existing policies (e.g., unintended consequences or public reaction). The document should not be based solely on emotion, though it should not be divorced of sentiment, as it needs to rouse the proper energy to effect change. The goal of the document is to convince the reader that your proposed policy will improve the U.S. healthcare system in terms of quality, costs, and accessibility. Submit your analysis in a letter format that you may use to develop speaker’s notes for your final presentation. Prompt: Write a letter to a stakeholder to describe and defend your proposed policy. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

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I. Evaluation of Policy A. Discuss the current economic and legal landscape related to your public health issue. To what extent do existing policies (or the lack thereof)

have positive or negative impacts to the American healthcare system? B. Explain your proposed policy using evidence and examples to illustrate.

1. What are the specific operational strategies that you believe are necessary for addressing your chosen issue and why? 2. What role do the major healthcare organizations play in your proposed policy? To what extent can their position in the marketplace be

harnessed? C. Defend your proposed policy for addressing the public health issue with specific research and evidence.

1. How will your proposed public policy improve the American healthcare system in terms of healthcare quality, costs, and accessibility? 2. In what ways is your proposed policy informed by the larger socioeconomic factors that can influence public health?

Rubric Guidelines for Submission: Your paper must be submitted as a 2- to 3-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and at least three sources cited in APA format. Instructor Feedback: This activity uses an integrated rubric in Blackboard. Students can view instructor feedback in the Grade Center. For more information, review these instructions.

Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (75%) Not Evident (0%) Value

Evaluation of Policy: Current Landscape

Discusses the current economic and legal landscape related to the public health issue, including to what extent existing policies have positive or negative impacts on the healthcare system

Discusses the current economic and legal landscape related to the public health issue, but fails to fully or accurately qualify the extent to which existing policies have positive or negative impacts on the healthcare system

Does not discuss the current economic and legal landscape related to the public health issue

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Evaluation of Policy: Explain: Operational

Strategies

Explains the proposed policy in terms of the specific operational strategies and why they are necessary for addressing the public health issue

Explains the proposed policy, but fails to detail the specific operational strategies and why they are necessary for addressing the public health issue

Does not explain the proposed policy in terms of the necessary operational strategies

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Evaluation of Policy: Explain: Healthcare

Organizations

Explains the proposed policy in terms of the role the major healthcare organizations can play to harness their market position for addressing the public health issue

Explains the proposed policy, but fails to detail the specific ways in which the major healthcare organizations can harness their market position to address the public health issue

Does not explain the proposed policy in terms of the role of the major healthcare organizations in addressing the public health issue

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Evaluation of Policy: Defend: Improve

Defends the proposed policy by explaining how it will improve the American healthcare system in terms of healthcare quality, costs, and accessibility

Defends the proposed policy, but fails to fully or logically explain how it will improve the American healthcare system in terms of healthcare quality, costs, and accessibility

Does not defend the proposed policy in terms of how it will improve the American healthcare system

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Evaluation of Policy: Defend: Informed

Defends the proposed policy by explaining how it is informed by the larger socioeconomic factors that influence public health

Defends the proposed policy, but fails to fully or logically explain how it is informed by the larger socioeconomic factors that influence public health

Does not defend the proposed policy in terms of how it is informed by larger socioeconomic factors

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Articulation of Response Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization

Submission has major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas

Submission has critical errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding of ideas

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Total 100% Public Health Issue Paper