There is an issue growing in popularity that debates whether universal healthcare should be practiced in the United States. Many editorials have expressed their opinions using argumentations, counterarguments, and rhetorical appeals. They also use evidence to support their claims and reasons to why they are of the opinion that universal healthcare should be practiced or banned. As each editorial is commencing, the editorial banning universal healthcare is more effective.…
Analytical comparison of Health as a Human Right in Kidder’s Mountains Beyond Mountains and Ansell’s County Analytical comparison of Health as a Human Right in Kidder’s Mountains Beyond Mountains and Ansell’s County Health is an issue that brings together various sectors and stakeholders because of its importance in the society. Giving the population quality healthcare requires vast attention and resources. Investments in the health sectors have kept growing to ensure that the society is protected from exploitation and that the quality of lives of the people is improved. However, there are instances when key stakeholders have failed in their role because of generalizations that result in poor policies. These generalizations include those…
holds a large amount of bias towards the government’s choices concerning the health of Canadians. Justly so, as the writers are health care workers, it is understandable why they are biased. However, the sharing of this strong bias throughout the essay proves to be quite over whelming as it doesn’t leave much room for alternative ideas when read by the general population. For example, the writer states: “The Canadians sleep easy (well, not quite, because of their obstructive sleep apnea) thanks to the government that lets the products they love go unfettered” (Rosenfield et al., 2011, p. 219). This example draws attention to the problem at hand effectively through the use of humour, however, it holds a strong bias towards the government’s role in sustaining Canadians health.…
Many people expect health care workers to make healthy choices, but at the end of the day, it is their choice to be healthy or not. Usually, health care workers recommend patients to be healthy. However, the patients have the choice to make the decision on their own. In the article, “Health Care Workers Protest Mandatory H1NI Vaccination”, by Declan McCullagh, health care workers want to have the choice to decide whether they want to get the vaccination or not, but because they work in the medical field it is mandatory for them to take the H1N1 vaccination. Not being able to have the choice of taking the vaccination, has led health care workers to protest against those who are higher in the field.…
In order to achieve this, the writers’ must know their target audience and their knowledge base (Hyland 2010). Different discourse communities use different jargon and it is the writer’s job to present an argument for an audience that it is intended for. An example in the academic source states, “The proportion of women returning for a subsequent on-time contraceptive injection in counties with Planned Parenthood affiliates was lower after the exclusion. Specifically, the percentage of women decreased from 56.9% to 37.7% in counties with Planned Parenthood affiliates but increased from 54.9% to 58.5% in counties without such affiliates (estimated difference in differences for counties with affiliates as compared with those without affiliates, −22.9 percentage points; Ps authority in the topic by providing the reader where the information comes from to back up their claims (Hyland:2010). In the academic source by Joseph and colleagues, their credibility relies on their research and data that they gathered.…
Health sectors in every nation are critical and even take a greater portion of their collected revenue. Within this important area, different departments work together to ensure that the entire nation is healthy. This paper, apart differentiating between public health and community health, shall look at the merit and demerits of conducting a public health assessment. It shall also examine the role played by such an evaluation in the formulation of health policies and legislations. Public/Community health Winslow (1920) defines public health as a collection of all activities that aim at prolonging life, promoting health and preventing diseases.…
Moreover, identified the steps in the policy development process. Furthermore, differentiated between policy development and implementation. Also, explained how stakeholders become involved in the process and why their voices often become a driver for change in health…
Public policymaking in United States has three important phases; policy formulation phase, policy implementation phase and policy modification phase. All three phases are affected by social and biological impacts. All phases are dynamic because policies can be amended or repelled at any time under the right circumstances. Policymaking depends on the constant feedback from each phase to enhance the process. Policy formulation phase proceeds to policy implementation phase with the legislation's enactment.…
Public discussion is frequently a positive platform for opening discussion topics and easy worldwide access. However, in Merchants of Doubt authors Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway presents the dangers of relying on the public or popular platform. One of the major issues is the public platform is the number of people in the discussion only fuels to the argument, thus it takes longer to achieve their objectives. The other issue is the stakes and implications the debates have on policy. In general, Merchants of Doubt teaches readers it is important to understand the source of the issue versus what is being debated and to further examine the purpose behind each side.…
Throughout western governments there has been a focus on utilizing French philosopher Michael Foucault governmentality theory (Krasmann 2015). Foucault governmentality theory has been applied to various health conditions with regards to health promotion campaigns. In this essay I will be examining the key concepts around governmentality, whilst applying it to health issues related to smoking. Foucault governmentailty shades away from previously used government method of governing by virtue of focusing on societies (Scott, 2016).…
(1) Explain the process of policy change and policy reform as it pertains to wrongful convictions in the context of innocence movement. An individual can think of human development as changing and growing actively throughout a course of time. Policies develop over time based on societies wants and needs. Sometimes policies are desired to be stricter and other times they are required to be more lenient.…
Health forecasting is a unique region of forecasting, and an important apparatus for foreseeing future health occasions or circumstances (Lewis, McGrath & Seidel 2011) for instance, requesting for health services or social insurance needs. Forecasting, encourages preventive pharmaceutical and social insurance intercession systems, by pre-illuminating health providers to take suitable alleviating activities, which minimize chances and oversee request. Health forecasting requires reliable information, data and appropriate logical instruments for the expectation of particular health conditions or circumstances (Lewis, McGrath & Seidel 2011). However, there is no single way to deal with health forecasting.…
(2012) further states that governments especially those of low-and middle income countries should involve its citizens in the decision making in regards to policy making. This will ensure the government implementations will be able to attain a greater impact and reach a greater audience in the population and individual involvement, will in-turn promote heath literacy and individual health empowerment (Strecker et al. 2012). Jackson et al. (2012) adds that in order for the development of individual skills to be more effective it must be combined with other strategies like the strengthening community action strategy.…
Policies are some of the world’s most implemented programs, principles, and procedures that focus on protecting the rights and lives of individuals, businesses, companies, and more. These different courses of action can help regulate and provide clarity and consistency among many organizations, issues of the nation, and people. Creating policies can have its strengths and weaknesses which can affect society in a variety of ways. People are mainly affected by policies because they are the individuals who must follow and abide by them as well.…
The Ottawa Charter (World Health Organisation, 1986) stated that ‘health is created and lived by the people within the settings of their everyday life: where they learn, play, work and love’. According to Kickbusch (2003), the key strategic point of the settings approach was to move health promotion away from focusing on individual behaviours and communities at risk, to developing a strategy that covers a total population within a given setting. This is followed on by the idea that an effective and sustainable public health strategy must reduce the risk of the majority of individuals, not only those most at risk (Rose, 1992). Thus the target of intervention therefore moves from individuals or groups of individuals to their environments, the ‘settings’ of everyday life. The idea of health promotion operating in a context beyond the individual is one that has found increasing popularity over the years (Whitelaw, 2001).…