1: Healthcare organizations must be economically viable to implement and maintain policies. Cost-benefit analysis measures viability and highlights when or where
changes need to be made to ensure financial sustainability. In a minimum of 135 words, discuss the following:
Find a healthcare company (department or company-wide) of your choosing and examine the financial policy within that company that supports or negates sustainability
(i.e., cost, benefit, and outcome). Provide a rationale for your position.
#2: Assessing value in health care is based on outcome. The policy that is implemented to analyze value must be one that is specific to the healthcare organization,
and must address the value issues (i.e., past, current, and forecasted). It is important to note that ethics and values are both inclusive and exclusive of each other
in terms of policy; from both the stance of “professional decision-making” and “policy analysis.” In a minimum of 135 words, discuss the following:
Review the “General Requirements for Informed Consent” in Chapter 12 of your text.
Create an Informed Consent (for a hypothetical human subject research) using items 1 – 8 under Section A.
Required Resource
Text
McLaughlin, C. P., & McLaughlin, C. D. (2014). Health policy analysis: An interdisciplinary approach (2nd ed.). Sudbury: Jones and Bartlett Publishers. ISBN:
9781284037777
Chapter 11: The Policy Analysis Process: Evaluation of Economic Viability
Chapter 12: The Policy Analysis Process: Analysis of Values
Chapter 13: Implementation Strategy and Planning
Recommended Resources
Textbook
Rychlik, R. (2002). Strategies in pharmacoeconomics and outcomes research. Binghamton, NY: Pharmaceutical Products Press/Haworth Press.
The text provides an analysis of the strategies used to analyze the economic viability of the pharmaceutical industry (a major healthcare sector). The book outlines
the impact of health economic polic(ies) relating to pharmaceutical research and development, sales and marketing, and special interest groups; all important
components of health policy.
Article
Nord, E., Daniels, N., & Kamlet, M. (2009). QALYs: Some challenges. Value in Health, 12 (1), 510 –515. doi: 10.1111/j.1524-4733.2009.00516.x
Quality adjusted life-year (QALY) is used as a measure of health quality. QALY is used to determine when and where healthcare resources need to be allocated to ensure
quality outcomes. The authors reviewed challenges they deemed as important that is faced when QALY is used as a health policy decision-making tool.
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