Task: Evaluation of Policy Discussion
Task: Evaluation of Policy Discussion
For Milestone Three, you will write a letter to a stakeholder to describe and defend your proposed policy, addressing the critical elements in the Evaluation of Policy section of your final project. Stakeholders could include policy makers, healthcare providers, insurers, and healthcare consumers.
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1 HCM 320 Module Four Short Paper Denise Vazquez Southern New Hampshire University 2 Introduction Despite the complex healthcare needs of veterans, access to quality, safe and accountable care has been a significant challenge for this vulnerable population in the United States. Veterans are at higher risks of post-traumatic stress disorder, mental health disorders, traumatic brain injury, and substance use disorders than their civilian counterparts (Cheney et al., 2018). Improving this issue requires a multifaceted intervention approach that includes the integration of different socioeconomic factors affecting healthcare, such as the ability to pay for care, social support, and comorbidities. Barriers Lack of steady employment is one of the major socioeconomic barriers to the proposed change. Most veterans are not employed because a large number of them deal with mental illness.
This negatively affects their financial stability and access to quality care after retirement (Yee, Frakt & Pizer, 2016). As a result, veterans experience constraints in meeting their daily activities, including access to healthcare services (Cheney et al., 2018). Another barrier is the education gap. Veterans have limited knowledge of the processes required to obtain healthcare benefits once eligible, mainly due to a lack of information about what services are available (Cheney et al., 2018). As a result, this lack of knowledge impedes their initial enrollment into the VA healthcare system. Support Veterans in rural areas are at a higher risk of suffering from health complications than their urban peers because of the limited transportation means to access required care. However, under VHA, the federal agency that is responsible for the health and well-being of United States 3 veterans, these veterans can benefit from low-income-targeted programs to assist veterans with problems of accessing care (Ofori, 2020). Another supporting factor is policies such as Medicare and Medicaid programs that benefit ethnic minorities as well as the majority populations in accessing affordable care (Ofori, 2020). These programs focus on refining and increasing access to care for all Americans, particularly children and senior citizens (Machikanti et al., 2017). Conclusion Veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, mental health disorders, traumatic brain injury, and substance use disorders need continued physical and mental healthcare services. However, several socioeconomic factors have downplayed efforts to better access to care and subsequent recovery of this population, leading to poor quality of life for this population.
Therefore, healthcare policies must be further focused on creating a solid and comprehensive multifaceted intervention to achieve long-term positive outcomes in healthcare access to veterans. 4 References Cheney, A. M., Koenig, C. J., Miller, C. J., Zamora, K., Wright, P., Stanley, R., Fortney, J., Burgess, J. F., & Pyne, J. M. (2018). Veteran-centered barriers to VA mental healthcare services use. BMC Health Services Research, 18(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-0183346-9 Manchikanti, L., Helm li, S., Benyamin, R. M., & Hirsch, J. A. (2017). Evolution of United States health care reform. Europe PubMed Center Journal, vol. 20 (3) (107-110). https://europepmc.org/abstract/med/28339426 Ofori, W. K. A. (2020). Impact of social economic factors on U. S. Walden University. Retrieved January 31, 2022, from https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=10100&context=dissertatio ns Yee, C., Frakt, A., & Pizer, S. (2016). Economic and policy effects on demand for VA care. Policy Brief. VA Quality Enhancement Research Initiative.
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: 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. Critical Elements Evaluation of Policy: Current Landscape Proficient (100%) 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 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 in terms of the role the major healthcare organizations can play to harness their market position for addressing the public health issue 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 by explaining how it is informed by the larger socioeconomic factors that influence public health Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization Evaluation of Policy: Explain: Healthcare Organizations Evaluation of Policy: Defend: Improve Evaluation of Policy: Defend: Informed Articulation of Response Needs Improvement (75%) 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 Explains the proposed policy, but fails to detail 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 ways in which the major healthcare organizations can harness their market position to address the public health issue 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 Defends the proposed policy, but fails to fully or logically explain how it is informed by the larger socioeconomic factors that influence public health Submission has major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas Not Evident (0%) Does not discuss the current economic and legal landscape related to the public health issue Value 18 Does not explain the proposed policy in terms of the necessary operational strategies 18 Does not explain the proposed policy in terms of the role of the major healthcare organizations in addressing the public health issue 18 Does not defend the proposed policy in terms of how it will improve the American healthcare system 18 Does not defend the proposed policy in terms of how it is informed by larger socioeconomic factors 18 Submission has critical errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding of ideas 10 Total 100% Task: Evaluation of Policy Discussion
Task: Evaluation of Policy Discussion