Health Policy Advocacy “Increase the proportion of pregnant women who receive ea

Health Policy Advocacy
“Increase the proportion of pregnant women who receive early and adequate prenatal care”
https://health.gov/healthypeople/objectives-and-data/browse-objectives/pregnancy-and-childbirth/increase-proportion-pregnant-women-who-receive-early-and-adequate-prenatal-care-mich-08
Purpose: To develop a plan describing how health professionals could advocate for a state or national health policy of the student’s choosing. The paper will focus on any one of the following health issues: health promotion, illness reduction, patient safety, or workplace safety.
Directions: Select a specific health policy in which you are interested and is of significance to the health care profession. The policy should focus on one of the following health issues: health promotion, illness reduction, patient safety, or workplace safety. The health policy is one at the state or national level or one that a health care organization has developed. Be careful, for the purposes of this assignment, a health policy is not legislation.
Write a minimum of six full pages to a maximum of eight pages of text regarding this health policy using the grading criteria below. Beyond the text, the paper should include a cover page, abstract with keywords, and reference list.
Health Policy Defined: Health policy refers to decisions, plans, and actions that are undertaken to achieve specific health care goals within a society. An explicit health policy can achieve several things: it defines a vision for the future which in turn helps to establish targets and points of reference for the short and medium term. It outlines priorities and the expected roles of different groups; and it builds consensus and informs people. Articulation of these objectives is found in legislation, judicial opinions, regulations, guidelines, standards, etc. that affect health care and public health (World Health Organization, 2019).
Source: World Health Organization. (2019). Health policy. Retrieved from http://www.who.int/topics/health_policy/en/