COURSE:
NURS-6050: Policy & Advocacy for Population Health
Agenda Comparison Grid and Fact Sheet
It may seem to you that healthcare has been a national topic of debate among political leaders for as long as you can remember.
Healthcare has been a policy item and a topic of debate not only in recent times but as far back as the administration of the second U.S. president, John Adams. In 1798, Adams signed legislation requiring that 20 cents per month of a sailor’s paycheck be set aside for covering their medical bills. This represented the first major piece of U.S. healthcare legislation, and the topic of healthcare has been woven into presidential agendas and political debate ever since.
As a healthcare professional, you may be called upon to provide expertise, guidance and/or opinions on healthcare matters as they are debated for inclusion into new policy. You may also be involved in planning new organizational policy and responses to changes in legislation. For all of these reasons you should be prepared to speak to national healthcare issues making the news.
In this Assignment, you will analyze recent presidential healthcare agendas. You also will prepare a fact sheet to communicate the importance of a healthcare issue and the impact on this issue of recent or proposed policy.
SOLUTION
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed systemic vulnerabilities in the United States healthcare infrastructure, highlighting the importance of robust public health policies. Comparing the approaches of the Trump and Biden administrations reveals significant differences in pandemic management, including resource allocation, communication strategies, and equity-driven interventions. This analysis focuses on COVID-19 as a population health concern, examining how these administrations addressed the issue, allocating resources, and proposing solutions for sustaining pandemic preparedness and health equity on the legislative agenda.
Part 1: Agenda Comparison Grid
| Identify the Population Health concern you selected. |
The selected population health concern is the COVID-19 pandemic and its management in the United States. |
| Describe the Population Health concern you selected. | COVID-19, as a population health concern, represents a global health crisis that significantly impacted mortality, morbidity, and economic stability. It exposed systemic inequities in healthcare, particularly affecting marginalized communities. Populations already disadvantaged by racial, socioeconomic, and geographic factors faced disproportionately high infection and mortality rates. Access to testing, vaccination, and treatment was uneven, often determined by income level and location. These inequities underscored the urgent need for comprehensive healthcare policies addressing systemic flaws (Galea et al., 2021). |
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