In this activity, you will compare delivery systems among high-, middle- and low-income countries. Then, you will discuss their strengths and weaknesses and what can low- and middle-income countries learn from high-income countries and vice versa. 

Step 1: Review and Consider 

Review the learning resources “Integrated care: learning between high-income, and low- and middle-income country health systems” and “Measures to strengthen primary health-care systems in low- and middle-income countries.” Think about what you would consider to be the strengths and weaknesses of healthcare delivery systems across the 3 categories: low-income, middle-income and high-income countries. Then, contemplate if any system can help improve the other.

Step 2: Discuss

In 350-500 words, write a discussion post where you:

• Identify at least two strengths and weaknesses of healthcare delivery systems in each of low-,middle- and high-income countries. Explain why each feature is considered a strength or weakness. 

• In your own words, explain what low- and middle-income countries can learn from the strengths of the delivery systems in high-income countries. Provide examples to justify your answer.

• Based on the readings, do you think that the delivery systems in high-income countries can be improved by applying the strengths of low- and middle-income systems? Why?

Step 3: Share

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OPTIONAL Step 4: Interact (10 minutes)

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In this activity, you will reflect on strategies to improve access to fair health systems and explain how these strategies work at the political, organizational, and legal levels. 

Step 1: Review and Identify

Review the learning resources on political, organizational, and legal frameworks in health and social service delivery systems. Then, take another look at the learning resource “Improving Access to Effective Care for People Who Have Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders: A Vital Direction for Health and Health Care.” From the reading, select a strategy to improve the care of people with substance use disorders that resonates more with your perspectives on the topic.

Step 2: Reflect and Write

Examine the details of the strategy you’ve chosen, focusing on the performance of the strategy at the political, organizational and legal levels. Write a reflection based on why you chose this strategy and how it works at each level. Your reflection should include comments about the strengths and limitations of your selected strategies along with potential barriers for their implementation (300-400 words).

Step 3: Submit

Submit your reflection. To share your work, click on the button at the bottom of the screen, “Add a new discussion topic.” Include the title of your work and paste your work in the “message” box. Make sure to reference others’ intellectual property when necessary. All references should follow 7th Edition APA formatting; see the resource on the Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library for instructions: APA citation resource (references are excluded from word counts).

Step 4: Share

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In this activity, you will discuss public health delivery systems issues in your setting.

Step 1: Review and Identify

Review the learning resources on the challenges experienced in organizing and financing health delivery systems. Think about the health delivery systems in your setting with special attention to financing and organization. Can you identify any of these issues in your setting?

Step 2: Discuss 

In 300-400 words, write a discussion on the related issues faced in your setting. In your discussion, you should:

• Briefly describe your setting. It can be your workplace, community, or region.
• Introduce public health delivery issues prevalent in your setting. Elaborate on potential causes or contributing factors.
• Explain how these issues relate to financing and organization and justify your statements with the course readings.
• Propose briefly some ideas that could help to alleviate the issues

Step 3: Share

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OPTIONAL Step 4: Interact (10 minutes)

If you would like to, you can reply to your peers' posts in a respectful and professional manner. Ensure that your post engages your peers' ideas by including a reflection on their comments, sharing ideas of other potential difficulties and parties involved, or asking thought-provoking questions. If a peer comments on your posting, please reply. To post a reply, click “Reply” on a particular discussion, write your feedback and then click on “Post to forum.”

You will write a discussion post on 2 steps of the policy-making process that are important to you. The discussion will include a rationale of how your selected steps ensure the improvement of the health status of a population and provide examples to support your selection. Furthermore, you will provide additional examples to illustrate the importance of evidence-based practice in the selected steps. 

Instructions:

Step 1: Review and Identify 

Review the learning resources on the steps of policy-making and the importance of evidence in the policy development process. Then, identify 2 steps of the policy-making process on which your discussion will be based.

Step 2: Discuss

In 500-600 words, you should discuss the following:

• Why did you choose those particular steps?

• How do they help to improve the health status of populations?

• Provide cases or examples to support your rationale

• Why is evidence important in these steps?

• Provide cases or examples to help justify your reasoning

Step 3: Share

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OPTIONAL Step 4: Interact (10 minutes)

If you would like to, you can reply to your peers' posts in a respectful and professional manner. Ensure that your post engages your peers' ideas by including a reflection on their comments, sharing ideas of other potential difficulties and parties involved, or asking thought-provoking questions. If a peer comments on your posting, please reply. To post a reply, click “Reply” on a particular discussion, write your feedback and then click on “Post to forum.”

You will research substance use disorder legislation in your region and reflect on ethical implications for individuals, organizations, and communities.

Instructions:

Step 1: Review and Research

Review the learning resources on the steps of policy-making and on ethical implications at the individual, organizational, and community levels of substance use disorder legislation. Then, research legislation in your region pertaining to substance use disorders.

Step 2: Reflect

In 400-500 words, write a reflection on the implications of the regional legislation you chose. It should include:

• A brief introduction to your chosen legislation (quoted and cited)

• State why you chose to reflect on the particular choice

• Briefly clarify what is meant by individual, organizational, and community levels 

• State what you understand by the term “ethical implications” as it applies to legislation

• Reflect on the ethical implications of your chosen legislation at each level

Step 3: Share

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OPTIONAL Step 4: Interact (10 minutes)

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You will discuss how legislation ensures the quality of public health and how it shapes the progression of public health.

Instructions:

Step 1: Review and Identify

Review the learning resources on how legislation ensures the quality of public health, and look at the role of the IHR (2005).

Step 2: Discuss

In 300-400 words, write a discussion on the role of legislation in ensuring quality public health and for progression in the field.
Your discussion should include: 

• What you think is the importance of having legislation in public health and how it encourages countries to strive for a level of quality in public health. 

• Your views on how legislation has shaped and facilitated public health progression and how you think it will continue to do this in the future.

• Make sure to use at least one example to support your arguments for each of the points above.

Step 3: Share

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OPTIONAL Step 4: Interact (10 minutes)

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You are provided with two examples of legislation related to health protection, promotion, and well-being internationally and based in Europe. You are required to research and compare these examples with the equivalent regulation in your country.

Instructions:

Step 1: Review and Research

Review the provided international and European legislation:

• International Health Regulations (2005) [Visions and Goals pages 13 to 16]  

• Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union: Article 168 (protection of public health)

• Then, research similar legislation in your country.

Step 2: Evaluate

In 900-1000 words, you will now evaluate and compare the three pieces of legislation. Your evaluation should:

• Compare and discuss how well each legislation achieves health protection, promotion, and well-being. 

• State which of the three you think will hold a country’s government most accountable if public health standards and duties are not held, and why. 

• State if you think any legislation seems more powerful or effective than the others, and why?

Step 3: Share

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OPTIONAL Step 4: Interact (10 minutes)

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You will choose a target population in your setting and assess the needs, assets, and capacities within the population. Then, you will explain how the needs assessment considers cultural values and practices and discuss how policies can be used to ensure equity in health and favorable environments within the population.

Instructions:

Step 1: Review and Identify

• Review the learning resources on “Steps for conducting a needs assessment,” “Culture Matters: using a cultural context of health approach to enhance policy-making” and “Human rights and health.”

• Identify a population and a specific health issue in your setting that you would prefer to cover in this assessment. Remember to consider their cultural values and practices.

Step 2: Assess and Write

Write an 800-1200 words assessment about your target population. Include the following:

• An introduction to the selected population and health issue

• Provide a very brief rationale for the selection of both

• What health determinants of the community are related to your selected health issue? 

• Considering a public health response to your selected health issue, assess:

• What are the community’s healthcare assets?

• What are the community’s healthcare needs?

• What are the community’s healthcare capacities? 

• Explain how cultural values and practices of the population relate to:

• The emergence/prevalence of the health issue

• The design and implementation of policies and programs to address the health issue

• Make sure that your assessment includes both potential challenges and opportunities that stem from your population’s cultural values and practices

• Outline how policies can help to ensure equity and environments favorable to health while keeping in mind cultural values and practices

Step 3: Share

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OPTIONAL Step 4: Interact (10 minutes)

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You will be given scenarios that display different types of healthcare challenges. You are required to discuss which principles of marketing and strategic planning you think will be best to apply and why. 

Instructions:

Step 1: Review and Research

Review the learning resources on the principles of marketing in public health and on the application of strategic planning and marketing principles in program planning.
Then, choose a topic between Vaccine Deployment and Tobacco Control Legislation. 

• Here are some suggested readings for Vaccine Deployment: 

• Read the section “Deployment” in this Resource and Section 4.3. 

• Read the section “Encouraging the uptake of vaccines” in this Resource.  

• Here are some suggested readings for Tobacco Control Legislation: 

• Read this web article

• Read this journal article.  

Step 2: Discuss

You will now discuss the application of marketing principles and strategic planning to the topic you selected. In your discussion, you should mention: 

• What challenge you choose and why do you think it is significant/relevant to strategic planning and marketing.

• Principles of marketing that best apply to your challenge. Include a justification of how your selected principles would improve program planning to address your selected challenge.

• Principles of strategic planning that best apply to the challenge. Include a justification of how your selected principles would improve program planning to address your selected challenge.

Step 3: Share

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OPTIONAL Step 4: Interact (10 minutes)

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In this activity, you will discuss which tools, principles, and measures of performance you will most likely use in your setting and which ones you already use.

Step 1: Review and Identify

Review the learning resources on measures of performance for health programs and policy development. Identify which measures are applicable to your setting and which are currently used in your setting.

Step 2: Discuss

In 300-400 words, write a discussion on the measures of performance. In your discussion, you should:

• Briefly describe your setting
• State which measures of performance are best suited for your setting
• State which measures are currently used in your setting and how effective they are
• Identify which other measures are not currently used in your setting and why
• Identify which you think should be employed in your setting and why

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OPTIONAL Step 4: Interact (10 minutes)

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In this activity, your scenario of focus will be population human papillomavirus (HPV) screening. You will justify what strategies can be used to build coalitions and a brief overview of how the strategy will be applied and how leadership skills will be employed in the scenario.

Step 1: Review and Research

Review the learning resources on building coalitions and partnerships. Then, research the focus “Population HPV Screening.” Here is an article which may help you get started. If you are already working on a research project, you can use your research topic for this activity.

Step 2: Write

Prepare a 400-700 words piece of writing that:

• Explain the importance of building partnerships and coalitions to address “Population HPV Screening” or your topic of choice.

• State the key stakeholders you would like to reach and why they are important to address the selected topic.

• Explain what strategies you would employ to build partnerships with your selected stakeholders and how you would execute such strategies.

• State and elaborate on three leadership skills or principles that you would need to develop or improve to be successful in your task of building a partnership to address the selected topic.

Step 3: Share

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