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?
Unit I Essay
Instructions
Choose two specific social conditions or determinants. Your essay should address the issues below.
1. Identify any legal and ethical precedents or foundations related to those determinants.
2. Examine the effect of the two social conditions on health policy and health care. What effects do these social conditions create?
While writing your essay, think about the connection between health and health policies. Differentiate the influence that your two social conditions have on health policy and health care.
Your essay may be from a historical perspective and show changes in time, or your essay may be from a current perspective and include recommended changes.
Your paper must be at least three pages in length, not including the title and reference pages. It should be organized well and contain an introduction.
