Health policy analysis
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Health policy analysis is the process of assessing and choosing among spending and resource alternatives that affect the health care system, public health system, or the health of the general public. Health policy analysis involves several steps: identifying or framing a problem; identifying who is affected (stakeholders); identifying and comparing the potential impact of different options for dealing with the problem; choosing among the options; implementing the chosen option(s); and evaluating the impact. The stakeholders can include government, private healthcare providers (e.g. hospitals, health plans, office-based clinicians), industry groups (e.g., pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device manufacturers), professional associations, industry and trade associations, advocacy groups, and consumers.
History of health policy
Public health policy today
Health promotion
- General
- Smoking
- Obesity
- Emergency preparedness
Relationship between health policies and health
Health care financing
- Health insurance]]
- Single Payer
- Employer Based Coverage
- Private Payer
Delivery system
Health informatics or medical informatics is the intersection of information science, medicine and health care. It deals with the resources, devices and methods required to optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval and use of information in health and biomedicine. Health informatics tools include not only computers but also clinical guidelines, formal medical terminologies, and information and communication systems.
Policy concerns regarding informatics include those of information privacy (see HIPPA), contagious disease tracking, and disaster management.
Healthcare disparities
Health disparities refer to gaps in the quality of health and health care across racial and ethnic groups. The Health Resources and Services Administration defines health disparities as "population-specific differences in the presence of disease, health outcomes, or access to health care."
See also
- Health economics
- Globalization and health
- Healthcare reform
- Hygiene
- Institute of Medicine
- Public health
- Public health law
- Medicare
- Medicaid
- State Children's Health Insurance Program or SCHIP
References
- WHO Definition of Health Preamble to the Constitution of the World Health Organization as adopted by the International Health Conference, 1946
- Control of Communicable Diseases Manual edited by James B. Chin, APHA, 2000
- Encyclopedia of public health edited by Lester Breslow, Macmillan Reference 2002
- Munger, Michael C. "Analyzing Policy: Choices, Conflicts, and Practices." New York: Norton, 2000.
External links
- Kaiser Family Foundation
- HHS Office for Civil Rights - HIPAA
- Duke Health Policy Gateway
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Department of Health and Human Services
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