400238 Power, Policy and Politics in Health Care Provision

This assessment requires you to demonstrate your understanding of how health care policies are (or should be) developed and constructed.

You are required to analyse the process of policy development with reference to ONE health care policy or one component of a policy within the Australian health care system. The policy could be one that has been developed for the Health Care System in general or you may choose a policy that has been developed specifically for your immediate work context. This policy may be one that has been developed to support the implementation of a government policy.

The required readings and learning activities in the Study Guides for Module 1 and Module 2 provide detailed information about the policy development process and make suggestion for how best to approach and conduct a policy analysis and critique.

This is a highly structured assignment where you are encouraged to use headings throughout

All materials / documents / authors referred to in your essay must be: oappropriately acknowledged in-text using the APA Style Manual guidelines ohave a corresponding citation in the reference list irrespective of whether they are peer reviewed

All documents sourced via the internet must be able to be located from your reference list web link

You may load a copy of your chosen policy into the Turnitin assignment folder with your assignment

Choosing a policy for critique and discussion

Choose a policy that interests you and that provides you with enough detail to enable you to incorporate into your critique and discussion at least some of the relevant processes and topic areas identified in:

Althaus, Bridgman and Davis (2013, pp. 37- 40) Australian Policy Cycle

Althaus et al. (2013, pp. 76-85) Frameworks in the Analyst’s Toolkit (also in Table 1 below).

You may also find Table 2 helpful to your critique because it provides a list of questions you could ask of your chosen policy. Table 2 has a health services planning and policy toolkit developed by the World Health Organization (2005).

Look at section 2.3 on pages 28 and 29 of the learning modules as this relates to the analysis of policy