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What is the definition of health policy?

examples? - Answer✔goal-directed decision making about health that is the result of an
authorized, public decision making process; those actions, nonactions, directions, and/or
guidance related to health that are decided by governments or other authorized entities.


what are some examples?
decisions related to federal subsidies for the education of health professionals, state
regulations that cover insurance benefits
the scope of health policy is ______ and _____.

what are some examples of macro-level? micro-level? - Answer✔wide and varied
macro level: i.e. medicare program funding
micro: co payments for care
what are the major public authorities operating at the federal, state and local level? (4) -
Answer✔1. state and national legislatures
2. state and national and local courts and judiciary
3. executive branches of federal and state governments
4. regulatory agencies

what do legislatures provide for health policy? - Answer✔-authority to create laws
- determining appropriate funding for legislative act
-providing oversight for policies that are administered by government agencies

what do court systems provide for health policy? - Answer✔- often staging grounds for
determining rights in health policy disputes through judicial review (ie can include challenging
unreasonable government action, supporting the establishment of newly created rights through
legislation, ensuring protection provided by healthcare law)

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what does the executive branch provide for health policy?
who oversees tasks completed by this branch?

jobs of chief executives? - Answer✔-responsible for execution of laws passed by legislatures
state governors, US president, chief executive


chief executives- develop and implement institutional budgets, control vast resources of
executive branch and usually able to use veto authority to influence policy changes

what do regulatory agencies do for health policy? - Answer✔-may be part of executive branch
or independent
implement and enforce laws through a rule-making process
-rules made by these agencies have the force of law (ie decisions related to nursing licensure by
state boards)
What are the 3 major attributes of health policy?

minor attributes (2)? - Answer✔MAJOR:
1. Decisions are made by authorized government institutions (ie legislatures, courts,
government-authorized entities)
2. decision-making process is subject to public review and public input
3. health policies address a public goal


MINOR:
1. health policies are subject to ongoing review by governing institutions and by the public
2. health policy goals change according to changes in political and social values, trends and
attitudes
Explain each stage of the policy process:
agenda setting
policy formation
policy adoption
policy implementation

policy evaluation - Answer✔1. agenda setting: health related issue is identified as a problem-
nurses can be helpful in this stage to frame the issue (creating a particular perspective of the


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issue- ie patients have the right to assisted suicide bc they have right to make their own
decisions)
2. policy formulation- different policy interventions are proposed and considered
3. policy adoption- proposed intervention is selected
4. policy implementation- carrying out proposed intervention
5. policy evaluation- determining if policy achieved the desired policy goals.

what are the theoretical links with healthcare policy? - Answer✔intergovernmental
relationships, participative governance, values, dynamic tension

what are the 2 values that are the heart of most public policy decisions? - Answer✔fairness and
efficiency
what produces dynamic tension between competing health policy interests? what are the
intersections? - Answer✔federalism, participative governance, and need to negotiate values
produce dynamic tension


access, cost and quality are the intersections
______ ______= relates to decisions that promote the welfare of the public (ie obesity and
regulation of high fat and sugar products available in public schools, Medicare paying for weight
loss programs)


_______ ____= governs the workplace (ie a policy developed in workforce that relates to
prevention os obesity, such as exercise facilities onsite


________= the actions of the nurse are judged as substandard to what is expected in
'reasonable and prudent' standards of practice and result in harm to others - Answer✔social
policy


institutional policy


negligence
Who is tasked with the implementation and administration of nurse practice acts, including
issuing licenses to legally practice nursing? - Answer✔state regulatory agency and politically
appointed board of nursing- can also make rules that have force of law- also have power to
revoke licenses if nurse is practicing unsafely

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