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Assignment - Health Policy Analysis Paper
Description - The Final Project for this course is a two-part health policy analysis of a topic provided by your instructor in which you will evaluate a policy for its impact on public health and health equity. Be sure to review the required learning resources for more information about the content, voice, and structure of a professional policy analysis. Pay specific attention to the five essential components of a policy analysis as described in Chapter 14 of your textbook: problem statement, background, landscape, options analysis, and recommendation. In Module 4 you complete the first three components. In Module 5 you will complete the remaining components.
Keep in mind that both too long or too short will negatively impact the quality of your analysis, so pay close attention to the page guidance and make sure you focus your information on the specific location pre-assigned by your instructor. Do NOT do a general overview of the topic. This paper should be the result of the analyses you are doing on one place and around one topic, using the data of that place on the specific assigned topic.
To prepare: Review the resources in this module about how to create a Problem Statement. Be sure that it is a question that has the possibility of several options to resolve and that it does not contain your recommendations. Your background should inform the reader as to why this problem has been chosen for analysis and should provide a good breadth and scope of what is known about this problem and what is not known. The landscape section will provide overall context by identifying key stakeholders and what issues need to be considered.
Topic - Pick one state and speak to a policy (ies) related to the prevention of prescription opioid misuse and abuse. We're looking at a state with existing policies.