Politics Policy and Global Trends in Health Sector

Policy, Politics and Global Trends in Health Sector

The goal of this policy paper is to provide the strategy to align effort transforming the health healthcare in the United States. The policy brief is also to improve the quality of healthcare delivery in the United States directed to Sylvia Mathews Burwell, the secretary of the U.S. Department of HHS (Health & Human Service), the agency that protects and improves the health of all Americans. Essentially, the HHS is the only agency that can implement a comprehensive health policy in the United States, and comparable to the global standards. The agency also fulfills its mission by providing effective human and health services to foster advancement in public health, medicine, and social services. Specifically, the policy is directed to the Secretary of HHS because he is in charge of the administration of the HHS. Moreover, the policy brief is directed to the policy makers of NIS (National Institute of Health). The policy brief is also directed to the Medicare and Medicaid policymakers in the United States. Typically, Medicare is one of the largest healthcare insurance programs for the American citizens aged 65 years and above. Thus, the policy is very important to the Medicare policy markers because Medicare provides health insurance to more than 48 million Americans. Additionally, the brief is directed to Medicaid policy makers because the Medicaid is a social insurance program jointly funded by the state and federal government aimed to assist individuals and families with limited financial resources. The policy is very important to alleviate the challenges that decision maker may face when implementing palliative care in the United States. For example, decision makers can face challenges to access workforce, hospice, and palliative care, as well as research on hospice and palliative care.

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An effective health policy in the United States comparable to the global trend requires an intervention of policy makers. An evidence-based health intervention is a strategy that the decision makers can employ to deliver effective health for the American population. The paper suggests using the public health surveillance for the intervention, which involves a systematic collection of health data and disseminates the data to identify the strategy to prevent and control diseases. The data collection and analysis will assist in identifying the diseases that need urgent attention. An intervention method requires developing a strategic plan that the policy makers must adopt in the program implementation. The paper suggests developing an action plan that will involve long-term and measurable objective. The decision makers should also set financial and human resources required for the program implementation.

The most important effective method that decision makers can employ for the program intervention is to present the policy before the House of Representative for effective deliberation. The strategy will assist the policy makers to achieve a federal government support for the program. It is very critical for the government to support the program because they have adequate human and financial resources that will be enough for the program intervention. However, the policymakers should lobby for the support of the program among the member of the two Houses to ensure a speedy acceptance of the program. After the policy makers are able to secure funding, the next stage is to carry out a comprehensive training of human resources to be used for the program intervention. The training program is essential to ensure that the policy is implemented to achieve the program objectives.

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In the contemporary health environment, persuasion is very important to achieve the desired goal. Persuasion is the ability to convince other people to adopt an idea and implement an action. To make the policy acceptable to the decision makers, it is very critical to adopt the strategy to convince them accepting the policy. The paper will adopt the following strategies to convince the policy makers:

The health benefit of Americans is the major important reason for the proposal implementation. The implementation of the policy brief is very important for the health of the American citizens. Apart from improving the health of American citizens, the policy will reduce the annual health costs that the U.S. government incurred yearly. The proposal will also assist the American citizens to have access to quality healthcare, which will make American workers more productive. In the contemporary business environment, health is wealth that makes an average worker more productive. By implementing the policy, an average American will be more productive because they will be able to work more hours per week, which will increase the country GDP.

Moreover, implementation of the policy will assist in reducing the overall annual health budget since the policy will make larger percentages of Americans to be healthy, thus, there will be a reduction of annual budget voted for the health sectors making the government focus on other productive sectors. However, decision makers can still face challenges when implementing the policy brief. The strategy to avoid the challenges is to recruit more qualify workforce who are skilled in implementing the policy brief. The new workforce should be qualified enough to carry out a research on hospice and palliative care. Moreover, the decision makers can retrain the in-house staff to meet the policy objective. The decision makers should also provide the financial resources to purchase the necessary health materials to access effective hospice and palliative care.

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The bottom-up approach assumes that personnel at the lower cadre plays a critical role in the policies implementation since they play a role in reshaping a policy objective. Thus, the bottom-up approach provides a sequential strategy that delivers a balanced view of the program that will assist a large number of stakeholders to support the program. Despite the benefits to be derived from the bottom-up approach, the approach might not be appropriate for the proposal because the project might not secure effective support from the policy makers since they need to be convinced that top executives have more knowledge than lower cadre for the successful program implementation.