Public Health Policy
This type of policy is intended to influence actions and behaviors that affect the health of populations.
What is Public Health Policy?
In a market economy, the prices of goods and services are determined by these two factors.
What are supply and demand?
This federal insurance program primarily covers adults age 65 and older.
What is Medicare?
Nurses have a professional responsibility to do this for public health laws and policies.
What is advocate?
One criterion for policy planning that measures fairness in the distribution of costs, benefits, and risks.
What is equity?
This federal initiative provides a prevention-focused agenda with measurable health objectives for the nation.
What is Healthy People?
This field studies the supply and demand of health-care services.
What is health economics?
This program is jointly financed by federal and state governments.
What is Medicaid?
The act of supporting or defending a cause on behalf of another person.
What is advocacy?
This criterion evaluates whether goals are achieved relative to cost.
What is efficiency?
The principle stating that policies should be supported by research and data.
What is evidence-based policy?
This field focuses on financing public health programs and services.
What is public health economics?
The Affordable Care Act was designed to improve access, lower costs, and improve this aspect of care.
What is quality of care?
Nurses can participate collectively by joining this national professional organization.
What is the American Nurses Association (ANA)?
This criterion measures the likelihood of achieving stated goals and objectives.
What is effectiveness?
This concept involves influencing determinants of health before illness develops.
What is upstream thinking?
Monetary awards used to plan and implement programs are called these.
What are grants?
This government agency's mission is to prevent work-related injuries, illnesses, and deaths.
What is OSHA?
These professionals are employed by organizations to influence legislators.
What are lobbyists?
Policy planning should include information and feedback from these individuals or groups.
Who are stakeholders?
Public health policy is based on the belief that society has this responsibility for its members.
What is ensuring conditions that support health for all people?
Federal, state, and local funding often varies according to this factor.
What is population size?
This federal law attempted to reduce health disparities by increasing access to health insurance.
What is the Affordable Care Act (ACA)?
Nurses have both the right and this obligation regarding political activity.
What is the duty to be politically active?
Public health policies should be ethically sound and also this, so they make sense to those affected.
What is culturally appropriate?