July 16, 2022

Imagine that you are a legislative consultant hired to assess the influence of stakeholders and interest groups on the health policy issue you chose for your Project Two submis

Overview

Imagine that you are a legislative consultant hired to assess the influence of stakeholders and interest groups on the health policy issue you chose for your Project Two submission. Your supervisor has asked that you present your findings to the senior leadership of your organization. This will help inform their decisions on how best to approach their intended organization-wide position statement regarding this issue.

Recall that in your Module Three Project Two Preparation assignment, you chose one health policy issue and researched its nonfinancial impact on various stakeholders. Now, in this assignment, you will continue your research on the chosen issue. However, your research will now be aligned to the financial implications of the selected issue for various stakeholders. In this assignment, you will analyze the financial needs of stakeholders and how they influence the financial practices in healthcare. Also, you will identify the financial benefits and disadvantages of a chosen issue for the stakeholders. Last, you will describe how financial value conflicts between stakeholders can be addressed with respect to the chosen issue.

Prompt

Create a research report summarizing your findings on the chosen health policy issue. This report will help you complete your Project Two submission.

You must cite at least two sources to support your claims. You may cite no more than one source from the module resources; all other resources must come from your own research. In other words, you may cite no more than one resource from the Resources section of this module. For additional help with completing this assignment, refer to the Shapiro Library Guide: Nursing – Graduate item in the Start Here module. You may also use the Online Writing Center, located in the Academic Support module.

Use this resource to help you complete this assignment:Project Two Health Policy Issue Scenarios Word Document

Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

Stakeholder Needs: Summarize the financial needs of any three key stakeholders and/or interest groups with respect to your chosen issue. Consider the following guiding questions in your response:
1. What financial needs for the identified key stakeholders and/or interest groups affected by the issue need to be considered, particularly for those in vulnerable populations or underserved areas?
2. Why is it important to consider these needs when making decisions regarding this issue?
Financial Influence: Analyze how the identified three key stakeholders and/or interest groups influence current financial practices regarding your chosen issue. Consider the following guiding questions in your response:
1. Which of the identified key stakeholders have significant or obvious financial influences on health policies?
2. Which of the identified key stakeholders have subtle or covert financial influences on health policies?
3. Why is important to be aware of these influences when making decisions related to health policies for this issue?
Benefits and Disadvantages: Explain which of the identified key stakeholders and/or interest groups might financially benefit or be disadvantaged by your chosen issue. Consider the following guiding questions in your response:
1. How might the identified key stakeholders and/or interest groups benefit from this issue?
2. How might the identified key stakeholders and/or interest groups be disadvantaged by this issue?
3. How might those in vulnerable populations or underserved areas be financially benefited or disadvantaged by this issue?
Competing Value Conflicts: Describe how competing financial value conflicts between identified key stakeholders could be addressed with respect to your chosen issue. Consider the following guiding questions in your response:
1. What financial value conflicts might the identified key stakeholders have with respect to this issue?
2. Why is it important to understand these value conflicts when making decisions related to health policy?
3. How might the competition between these financial value conflicts affect both identified stakeholders’ influence on the issue and how identified stakeholders are impacted by the issue itself?

Health Policy Project 2

Precious Teasley

Southern New Hampshire University

Health Policy and Law 22TW5

Dr. Jim Dockins

June 25,2022

Health Policy Project 2

Introduction

Health Policy Issue: The selected policy in Health Policy Issue Option 3: Adult Immunization. Communicable diseases do not affect children only but adults too in the process (Kim et al., 2019). In this way, adults need to get immunized against communicable diseases. The idea to peg the immunization on a specific state job is done to eliminate or deal with people who may resist getting an immunization. It is because of the significance of immunization to control communicable illnesses that I chose this policy option (National Vaccine Advisory Committee, 2012). To someone who has not had the policy before, the adult immunization policy will help explain the significance of immunization to adults by providing information on available vaccines and by debunking myths around the vaccine to reduce or eliminate vaccine hesitancy.

Key Stakeholders and Interest Groups: The stakeholders in this issue include people aged 18 years and above, human rights groups, state agencies, public health professionals, legislatures, community pharmacies, pharmaceutical companies, primary care doctors, consumers, pharmacists, and other alternative places of treatment, opinion leaders and media (Kim et al., 2019). Vulnerable populations may be underserved by the issue because they may not be able to receive information, or access vaccination or their interests may not be considered when developing and implementing the policy. Lack of information may hinder the implementation of the policy because of the high rate of vaccine hesitancy among the vulnerable populations.

Influence on Decision Making

Stakeholder Needs: Some of the stakeholder needs in the current issue include vaccines, access, and the presence of medical professionals to provide the vaccines or immunize the adults (Williams et al., 2015). Access to information, access to safe vaccines, access to vaccination centers, and training in some instances. The need to understand the underlying effects of the vaccine among others. In any public health practice, information is very important as it helps the stakeholders to understand the program and respond to it positively. Again, in the current issue, some of the vulnerable populations may include pregnant women and people with chronic illnesses (Kim et al., 2019). The impacts of the vaccines on the vulnerable populations and their concerns must be addressed before the program is initiated.

Health Policy Influence: Human rights and civil rights groups play an important role in influencing policy success in society. Approval of the policy by the groups will increase the number of adults getting vaccinated (National Vaccine Advisory Committee, 2012). Secondly, the media will influence the success of the policy since it will provide the information required for other stakeholders to understand the policy and accept or reject it. The adults or targeted group will also have a huge impact on the success of the policy because they are the persons directly impacted by the policy (Williams et al., 2015). Their hesitancy to the vaccine will contribute to low policy implementation success. Stakeholders with low influence on the issue include pharmacies, pharmacists, and opinion leaders.

Benefits and Disadvantages: The issue will benefit adults with communicable or who are at risk of acquiring communicable illnesses. Secondly, public health professionals will also benefit from the issue because they will be able to reduce the number of communicable disease cases they deal with in the community (Williams et al., 2015). Thirdly, the community will benefit from the issue because the number of people with communicable diseases will reduce significantly. Those who may be disadvantaged include adults living with vulnerable illnesses because their concerns may not be considered hence the vaccine may negatively impact their health. The other group is pregnant women who may not be able to receive the vaccine because of its impacts on their unborn babies (National Vaccine Advisory Committee, 2012). Finally, state agencies may be disadvantaged because they may not be able to employ highly talented persons who have not been immunized because of the policy.

Value Conflict Analysis: Adults who are directly impacted by the policy may not see the value of immunization because they may believe that they have developed sufficient immunity. This may pose a conflict with the public health professionals who will be providing the vaccine and feel that the adult needs the vaccine (National Vaccine Advisory Committee, 2012). Secondly, another value interest may exist between the policy legislatures and the implementers (public health professionals) on the issues relating to vulnerable populations that need to be considered during the policy implementation.

References

Kim, D. K., Hunter, P., & Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices†. (2019). Recommended adult immunization schedule, United States, 2019. Annals of internal medicine, 170(3), 182-192.

National Vaccine Advisory Committee. (2012). A pathway to leadership for adult immunization: recommendations of the National Vaccine Advisory Committee: approved by the National Vaccine Advisory Committee on June 14, 2011. Public health reports (Washington, DC: 1974), 127(Suppl 1), 1-42.

Williams, W. W., Lu, P. J., O'Halloran, A., Bridges, C. B., Kim, D. K., Pilishvili, T., … & Markowitz, L. E. (2015). Vaccination coverage among adults, excluding influenza vaccination—the United States, 2013. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 64(4), 95.

Overview

Imagine that you are a legisla!ve consultant hired to assess the influence of stakeholders and interest groups on the health

policy issue you chose for your Project Two submission. Your supervisor has asked that you present your findings to the

senior leadership of your organiza!on. This will help inform their decisions on how best to approach their intended

organiza!on-wide posi!on statement regarding this issue.

Recall that in your Module Three Project Two Prepara!on assignment, you chose one health policy issue and researched its

nonfinancial impact on various stakeholders. Now, in this assignment, you will con!nue your research on the chosen issue.

However, your research will now be aligned to the financial implica!ons of the selected issue for various stakeholders. In this

assignment, you will analyze the financial needs of stakeholders and how they influence the financial prac!ces in healthcare.

Also, you will iden!fy the financial benefits and disadvantages of a chosen issue for the stakeholders. Last, you will describe

how financial value conflicts between stakeholders can be addressed with respect to the chosen issue.

Prompt

Create a research report summarizing your findings on the chosen health policy issue. This report will help you complete your

Project Two submission.

You must cite at least two sources to support your claims. You may cite no more than one source from the module resources;

all other resources must come from your own research. In other words, you may cite no more than one resource from the

Resources sec!on of this module. For addi!onal help with comple!ng this assignment, refer to the Shapiro Library Guide:

Nursing – Graduate item in the Start Here module. You may also use the Online Wri!ng Center, located in the Academic

Support module.

Use this resource to help you complete this assignment: Project Two Health Policy Issue Scenarios Word Document

Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

1. Stakeholder Needs: Summarize the financial needs of any three key stakeholders and/or interest groups with respect

to your chosen issue. Consider the following guiding ques!ons in your response:

A. What financial needs for the iden!fied key stakeholders and/or interest groups affected by the issue need to

be considered, par!cularly for those in vulnerable popula!ons or underserved areas?

B. Why is it important to consider these needs when making decisions regarding this issue?

2. Financial Influence: Analyze how the iden!fied three key stakeholders and/or interest groups influence current

financial prac!ces regarding your chosen issue. Consider the following guiding ques!ons in your response:

A. Which of the iden!fied key stakeholders have significant or obvious financial influences on health policies?

B. Which of the iden!fied key stakeholders have subtle or covert financial influences on health policies?

C. Why is important to be aware of these influences when making decisions related to health policies for this

issue?

3. Benefits and Disadvantages: Explain which of the iden!fied key stakeholders and/or interest groups might financially

benefit or be disadvantaged by your chosen issue. Consider the following guiding ques!ons in your response:

A. How might the iden!fied key stakeholders and/or interest groups benefit from this issue?

B. How might the iden!fied key stakeholders and/or interest groups be disadvantaged by this issue?

C. How might those in vulnerable popula!ons or underserved areas be financially benefited or disadvantaged by

this issue?

4. Compe!ng Value Conflicts: Describe how compe!ng financial value conflicts between iden!fied key stakeholders

could be addressed with respect to your chosen issue. Consider the following guiding ques!ons in your response:

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A. What financial value conflicts might the iden!fied key stakeholders have with respect to this issue?

B. Why is it important to understand these value conflicts when making decisions related to health policy?

C. How might the compe!!on between these financial value conflicts affect both iden!fied stakeholders’

influence on the issue and how iden!fied stakeholders are impacted by the issue itself?

Guidelines for Submission

Your submission should be a 2- to 3-page Word document. You must also include an APA-style !tle page. Use 12-point Times

New Roman font, double spacing, and 1-inch margins. Sources should be cited according to APA style.

Criteria Exemplary (100%) Proficient (90%) Needs

Improvement (70%) Not Evident (0%) Value

Stakeholder Needs