compose a Policy Brief including determinants and associated issues pertaining to your individually preferred public health topic (e.g. Healthy People 2020/2030 LHI). Please include a brief consideration of possible public health and public policy actions for addressing the LHI that you have proposed. Please incorporate ethical considerations using the Framework for Ethical Analysis and Justification, which may be found on page 127 of the text. Please use the sample Health Affairs policy brief to organize your homework.
Sample Policy Brief: https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hpb20130815.523558/full/
Instructional Objective:Final product; The homework should be 3 to 4 pages in length, with 1.5 inch spacing and 1 inch margins.
Outline the LHI and associated issues
Background; primary determinants and historical context
Ethical Considerations; goals, risks and harms, stakeholders, scope of authority
Policy Implications
Outline Next Steps/Action Steps References and Resources
One Public Health (prevention or intervention) action
One related Public Policy action
For each of these 2 actions, please consider and evaluate ethical dimensions;
Utility, Justice and Respect for individuals and public institutions
Effectiveness
Proportionality and Necessity
Least infringement and Public justification
Please use the following resources:
N & M Text – Chapter 6 on Ethics
