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Ensure compliance and best practices in your healthcare facility with our comprehensive guide on the 10 important types of healthcare policies for your facility.
Public health policy is defined as the laws, regulations, actions, and decisions implemented within society in order to promote wellness and ensure that specific health goals are met. Public health policies can range from formal legislation to community outreach efforts.
Healthcare policy is an integral aspect of the U.S. healthcare system—one that helps shape and protect the health and well-being of our population. Policy impacts issues as fundamental as healthcare access, cost, delivery methods, and privacy. It involves the rules and regulations set forth by lawmakers on a local, state, and national level.
Health policy can have a major impact on health and well-being. Healthy People 2030 focuses on keeping people safe and healthy through laws and policies at the local, state, territorial, and federal level. Evidence-based health policies can help prevent disease and promote health.
This Health Policy 101 chapter explores the federal government’s role in health policy for the fragmented U.S. health care system.
Explore U.S. Health Care Policy Research. RAND research offers insights about the likely impact of repealing or revising the ACA along key dimensions, including Medicaid, the individual mandate, effects on employers, tax subsidies, changing rating regulations, and essential health benefits.
A collection of national public health initiatives, strategies, and action plans covering topics like chronic disease, emergency preparedness, and health disparities. The material can guide the development of local plans and prioritizes public health efforts addressing the nation's health challenges.
The strengths, weaknesses, flaws, and complexity of every health care system stem in large part from health policies. The U.S. health care system did not arise randomly but through a series...
By defining the parameters of individuals' and communities' environments, laws and policies can support health by encouraging beneficial behaviors and healthful circumstances; they can also impede good health or have unequal or unintended effects on health outcomes.
The Healthy People 2020 Law and Health Policy project aimed to help close that gap by showcasing evidence-based legal and policy interventions that impact public health.