Assignment 1: Clinical Preventive Services
Clinical Preventive Services and Health Care Coverage. Public health systems and health care work by an authority grounded both in science and in statute.
For this assignment, you will consider three different clinical preventive services to be provided by your instructor and think about why all three of those clinical preventive services should be covered in any type of health insurance coverage. Be sure to include, in your write up, material from the Guide to Clinical Preventive Service featured in the Required Readings.
Submit a 4 page (not including title page and references) paper addressing the following items:
• Title page, including name, date, course and section, and title
• Include section headers for each section, below. For each of the three Clinical Preventive Services named by your instructor:
• Discuss the various dimensions of the policy-making process, including the roles of ethics and evidence. In your response to this question, concisely describe the role of research in the development of health policy to improve population health. Why are practices rooted in both ethics and evidence more effective for use by policy makers in creating health-related policy decisions?
• Describe the key information on each of the Clinical Preventive Services, including its potential value, cost savings for insurance companies, and ability to improve population health. Be sure to support your answer.
• How are these particular clinical services grounded in science? What evidence would be useful to inform a policy requiring insurance to cover these particular services?
• Conclude with a take-home message on how these services can impact positive social change.
• Cite the sources in your text, wherever you referred to them. Cite the sources in your text, wherever you referred to them.
Include an APA formatted reference list.
References
Wilensky, S. E., & Teitelbaum, J. B. (2020). Essentials of health policy and law (4th ed). Jones and Bartlett.
• Chapter 3, “Law and the Legal System” (pp. 33–47)
• Chapter 4, “Overview of the United States Healthcare System” (pp. 49–77)
• Chapter 5, “Public Health Institutions and Systems” (pp. 81–109)
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. (2014). Guide to clinical preventive services 2014. https://www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/clinicians-providers/guidelines-recommendations/guide/cpsguide.pdf
De Guia, S., & Kapapgoda, J. D. (n.d.). Public health advocacy: The basics. ChangeLab Solutions. https://apha.org/-/media/files/pdf/advocacy/171107_advocacy_lobbying.ashx
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. (n.d.). Public health. https://www.oecd.org/health/public-health.htm
The Commonwealth Fund. (n.d.). International health care system profiles. https://international.commonwealthfund.org/
• France
• Germany
• Canada
• Great Britain
Web Resources
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. (2009). https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/patient-protection.pdf
Please review the following:
• Title IV
• Subtitle A
• Sections 4001, 4002, 4003, and 4004
American Public Health Association. (n.d.-a). Health reform. https://www.apha.org/topics-and-issues/health-reform
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. (n.d.). Profile of state and territorial public health. https://www.astho.org/Profile/
National Association of County and City Health Officials. (n.d.-a). National profile of local health departments. http://nacchoprofilestudy.org
PUBH-6127
Public Health Policy, Politics & Progress
Assignment Topics Sheet
2021 Summer Quarter
Several assignments will have rotating topics. The table below will list the assignments, the assignment description, and the pre-assigned topic for this term. If you have any questions, please contact your lead faculty member.
Assignment Assigned Topic for
Summer 2021
Module 2
(Both assignments for the module)
• Alcohol Misuse, Screening and Behavioral Counseling
• Bladder Cancer, Screening
• HPV Vaccines in Children Ages 7 to 18
