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MHA5201 Health Resources and Policy Analysis

Unit I Discussion

Introduce yourself to your classmates with your name, location, current employment, and future goals.

Discuss a specific healthcare policy with which you have had personal experience as a practitioner or patient. Give details of how it affected your life, your patient's life, or the family of those involved. How would you recommend the policy be changed to provide better outcomes for patients?

 

MHA5201 Health Resources and Policy Analysis

Unit 2 Discussion

Share an example of a healthcare policy that you suspect originated more out of an emotional outcry from the population than a true evidence-based decision-making process. Give some basic background on how the policy came into being, and share your opinion on if it was based on the best data available at the time. What do you think could have been done differently?

 

MHA5201 Health Resources and Policy Analysis

Unit 3 Discussion

Take some time to think about previous efforts to reform health care. What would you have done differently had it been up to you to reform the U.S. healthcare system? Defend your opinion by providing one or two examples of your changes, and explain your rationale.

 

MHA5201 Health Resources and Policy Analysis

Unit 4 Discussion

Discuss one of the advocacy groups mentioned in the Unit IV Lesson. Describe your perception of the value this group brings to the policy-making table. Specify if you would or would not be motivated to join this group, and explain why.

 

MHA5201 Health Resources and Policy Analysis

Unit 5 Discussion

This unit introduced the concept of top-down and bottom-up approaches. These approaches raise a question about who actually knows what is best for healthcare delivery in the United States. In your opinion, do the people know better than lawmakers do? Where are the healthcare providers in your equation? Use an example from either your own experience or the news to support your opinion

 

MHA5201 Health Resources and Policy Analysis

Unit 6 Discussion

Recall what you have learned in this unit about incrementalism. In your opinion, when is it beneficial to use this strategy in healthcare policy reform? What are the possible risks?

 

MHA5201 Health Resources and Policy Analysis

Unit 7 Discussion

The Unit VII Lesson discussed ways to stay abreast of topics in healthcare policy and specifically stated that having a passion or a challenging question can build a life-long study and prevent boredom or burnout in the pursuit of knowledge. For this discussion, identify a topic about which you are passionate, and explain why this specific topic is important to health policy or the healthcare system. Try to pick something that could have a direct effect on your current or future work situation.

 

MHA5201 Health Resources and Policy Analysis

Unit 8 Discussion

Identify a skill or specific area of knowledge that you learned in this course, and explain how you can apply it to a real-world scenario. How will this course help to increase success in your career?