Comprehensive Analysis of Health Policies and Supporting Documents

This report delves into various aspects of health policy and its related documents. It begins by explaining the policy cycle, highlighting its stages and importance in policy development and decision-making. The report then differentiates between health policies and government policies, providing examples of each. It explores the concept of new public health, contrasting it with older approaches and emphasizing its focus on social determinants of health and equal access to health services. The influence of social and cultural factors on health outcomes is also discussed, along with the impact of socioeconomic status and environmental circumstances. Finally, the report examines the role of power dynamics in shaping health policy, identifying different sources of power such as technical expertise, political influence, and financial resources. The report utilizes provided resources including documents from the OECD and WHO to support its analysis, offering a comprehensive overview of health policy and its multifaceted dimensions.

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Question No 1- The policy cycle is an idealized process which explains the way policy should be
drafted assessed and implemented. It were the service as the instructive guide for people who are
new to a policy then the strictly define process. However, there are many organizations which
are aimed at completing the policies having use the policy cycle as the optimal model. The
policy cycle in the process of policy making has many Saints which help in making the policy. In
every stage the policy cycle helps the decision makers to recognize the issue and evaluate all of
the alternative policies having selected the most proper strategy (Clavier & de Leeuw, 2013).
The policy cycle further provides the policy makers with proper understanding regarding the way
they should act. As an example in the stage of agenda setting the policy maker sets the agenda
through checking the issues that have emerged and received use public attention and need proper
intervention of the government. In this particular stage the policy maker must have the
knowledge of the prevailing problems regarding a particular issue. They further are required to
analyze the political and social context having checked whether the recent policy is suitable to be
applied to particular issue along with getting general idea about the involvement in this policy.
The time when policy alternative has been analyzed the decision-making stage comes that is
followed by proper implementation (De Leeuw, Clavier & Breton, 2014).. The policy cycle
further doesn't stop at the implementation of the policy but continuous with the evaluation
providing the results of the decision that are monitored by the parties both the outside and the
inside government. These are the stages which appear in a separate way and it makes easier for
the policymakers to recognize, revisit and then analyze a particular face which has been done in
an improper manner. Additionally the stages of the policy cycle can be separately compared as
per requirement. In this way it is an important part of new policy development.

Question no 2-The health policies in which legislation the plans and actions are processed for
achieving particular Health Care goals in a particular society. As per the World Health
Organization, an explicit health policy can attend few aspects such as it defines a vision for the
future having outlined the expected roles and parities of various groups and building consensus
among people. On the other hand, it is a principle which guides better decisions having resulted
in some positive outcomes which can enhance the unit or the community. The government
policies further consist of reasons behind why few things should be done. Government policy
document further specifies the guidelines, the rules along with the regulations an organization
needs its employees to follow (Howlett, McConnell & Perl, 2017).. In the Health policy, there
are policies related to Healthcare and medical health of individual such as medical research
policy, the health workforce policy, the health in foreign policy, the global health policy, the
right to health policy and the like. The other hand in the government policy there are different
types of policies which are not necessarily related to Healthcare such as the criminal justice
policy, the environment policy, the economic affairs the culture and society related policies and
many others. Health policies are applicable only to the health care the nurses the patients and
often for the general people. The government policy in that place is applicable to everyone
belonging to a particular Nation or government having no exclusion or inclusion criteria
(Labilles, 2016). The government policies are aimed at the particular program of action that are
chosen by the government for helping the government uniting the goals in various sectors of
economy. These are for the benefits of the citizen.
Question 3-The new public health is one integrative approach for the protection and promotions
of the health status of an individual and the society as a whole. There are many dimensions of the

new public health such as the methodology conceptual political scientific and the moral factors
which identify the interdependence along with the interrelationship of the health of communities
people and relations. The New Public Health further encompasses long range of necessary
preventive rehabilitative and curative factors that are important in the health and well being of a
particular society. It is founded on the balance of services that are within the social and the health
systems. The concentration is on the administrative and functional linkages and the tools which
are needed to attend the coordination in the provision of a long range of social movements and
services. New Public Health was used in the international publications time of 1990 for
recognizing the observation of disease prevention along with the organization of the personal
care services are interdependent and interlinked with the social condition and Health Promotion
(Sriram et al., 2018).. Considerable e the new public health is a philosophy that in the verse for
broadening the all the understanding of people health having included the health of a person
along with the health of population and tries to address the contemporary health issues which are
concerned with the equal access to the health services the political governance the environment
the economic and social development. In the older Public Health approach this was not the focus
and in the new Public Health approach the health is put in the development framework for
ensuring that it is protected in the public. Moreover it deals with action and at recognizing a
blueprint for addressing many burning issues of the recent time having identified some
implementable ways of solving the problems.
Question no 4- It is found that the human and the effort and time invested in interacting with
other people is likely to bring various benefits to health some negative effects. The social and
economic environment affects the health of a person throughout life. There are few factors which

affect the status of a person health and fitness (Thurston, 2017). There are few societies and
culture which view the body shapes in a different way and for example with is perceived as a
positive thing in the cultures that lacks food societies view weight gain to be signifying obesity
and not seen as something desirable and a threat to the individual health. There are different
types of food that are consumed in different societies and cultures which can leave impact on the
health and the well-being of a person. The consumption of junk food can be perceived as a sign
of status in few societies which can be detrimental for the condition of health of the individual
along with the society (Solar & Irwin, 2018).. For example children who are under parents who
think having super size is great but it later leads to obesity that is abnormal. Also the socio-
economic status and the social level leave a huge impact on the health. The environment and
social circumstances for the pregnant women can lead to wrong development of the fetus through
which there can be deficiencies in the nutrition at the time of pregnancy along with the maternal
stress. The fetal development can further be risk for the health of the mother in the later life.
Another example can be slow growth along with the poor emotional support that can lead two
lifetime risk for individuals.
Question no 5- The power is considered as a political aspect of understanding and Transformers
health policy along with system. The power further manufactures either explicitly are implicitly
at different levels such as national local and global. Different types of flowers which can live
impact on the policy development and change such as the technical expertise the bureaucratic
power the political power the networks and access the financial power and the personal
attributes. The recognition of the way individuals and organizations along with the networks
derive the power is quite essential for the sharpening of individual understanding and the way
power flows in specific directions or accumulates with few groups. This understanding for the

facilitates specific awareness of the way the power resources are distributed as well as the way
they can be used for improving equity in the health policy systems (Pringle, 2017).. The
technical expertise the power that is derived from skills knowledge and information held by
people along with the authoritative claim of people to the knowledge. The political power is
derived from the political authority the traditional the legitimate or charismatic. It can be channel
then towards achievement of your objectives for stop the political power for can be understood
based on the state Power and its influences on the social life. The bureaucratic power is related
with the power which is derived from the authority of the Bureaucracy sand the knowledge. The
financial power is one of the biggest powers derived from the accessibility to the economic
resources as assets money and property. The personal attributes emerge from the exceptional
qualities of the powers with the individual factors as race gender religion and sexuality. The
networks and the assets are derived from the power which is based on the sources consisting of
the collective knowledge. It can be described in the form of interactive moments that create
context for the social representations.

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