Policy Development and Power

Running head: POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND POWER 1
Policy Development and Power
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POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND POWER 2
Why is policy circle an appropriate tool for developing a new policy?
Policy circle is a framework that is used to analyze different stages of policy with an aim
of improving the health outcomes. By using the policy circle, the policy making members seeks
to address an open issue by establishing laws, guidelines, choices, or even activities that are
relevant to the current issue. A public cycle contains three steps which includes agenda-setting,
option formulation as well as the implementation of the policy. The policy cycle is an
appropriate tool for developing a new policy because it places the issue to be solved at the center
by dividing the policy process into a progression of stages from a notional beginning stage at
which policy makers start to consider an approach issue to the notional end where they actualize
the answer for the issue. The continuous process of this cycle which enables the policymakers to
think of how successful the policy is before taking another action ensures that legislative,
executive approvals and consent seeking is achieved before modifying or continuing with the
policy. According to Althaus, Bridgman and Davis (2013) the policy cycle is used by the policy
members to understand and structure the development of policy by breaking the policy process
into clear and identifiable steps. Therefore, policy circle is an appropriate tool because it conveys
the movements of ideas and resources, simplifies the complicated phenomena into practicable
processes, synthesizes the existing knowledge about a policy by using the appropriate literature
at different levels of the policy making and acknowledges the non-linear nature of policy
making. It is important to note that policy cycle emphasizes on fluid policy making by
identifying the aims, policies to achieve those aims, as well as the necessary resources required
so as to implement and evaluate the policy. Policy cycle tool thus helps policy makers to
describe a more meaningful and realistic analytical more for policy making hence its
appropriateness.

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What are key sociological issues and how do they determine a person’s state of
health?
The key sociological issues address the connection between the general public and
wellbeing, specifically how public activity impacts the mortality and grimness rates and how
mortality and dreariness rates sway the general public (Bury, 2013). It likewise looks at the
wellbeing and ailment in connection to social establishments like family, work, religion just as
the reasons for wellbeing and infections, explanations for seeking specific sorts of care, tolerant
consistence and resistance. According to Bury and Gabe (2013), the sociological key issues
provide insight on what external factors causes diseases and illnesses. The key issues exhibit that
the spread of sicknesses is intensely affected by the financial status of people, ethnic conventions
and convictions just as other social elements. The key sociological issues decide an individual's
condition of health by not only affecting the life expectancy but also the possibilities that one
may experience other diseases and the type of care they may receive. The food that people in a
given society consume may pose health risks or become beneficial to one’s health. Bad eating
habits may lead to health risks like diabetes, obesity and heart diseases. However, a society that
views some body types and images in certain ways for instance weight gain is seen as a sign of
health in societies with scarce food influences the eating habits of people in that culture. Cohn
(2014) argues that the socioeconomic stats of an individual reflects an individual’s health and
longevity. Higher level of education and income determines a good start of life right from
infancy, however, people from other societies cannot provide a better health care to their children
because they cannot afford it. Religion and spirituality also determine a person’s state of health
as it helps regulate people’s behaviors and health habits, emotions and feelings. This is because