Report on the Interrelationship between Health Policy and Practices

This report delves into the interrelationship between health policy, legislation, regulations, finance, and healthcare practices. It emphasizes the crucial connections between these elements, highlighting how health policies are shaped by governmental laws and financial constraints. The report discusses the impact of legislation, such as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, on healthcare decisions and the potential economic pressures it creates. Furthermore, it explores how finance and economic conditions influence healthcare services, including investments in tools and quality measurement. The report concludes by underscoring the strong interrelationship among healthcare policies, regulations, finance, and practices, supported by references to relevant literature and online resources.

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Interrelationship between health policy and legislation, regulations, finance and practices
There is a strong connection and relationship between health policy, financial situation of
the country and some legal practices Foth & Holmes, (2018).
Relationship of health policy with legal practices
The man aim of health care related policies and legislations is to promote the health of
the community and patients. In this context laws and governmental officials plays an important
role n helping health care policies to accomplish this goals by respecting human right, privacy
and discrimination Suchman, Hart & Montagu, (2018). The United State is highly complicated
society as they are suffering many healthcare and policy issues. In this context, it can be said that
formal development of health policy is the main preserve of all three branches of the government
such as the executive, legislature and the judiciary. So, it can be said that policies made by the
government in the context of healthcare bind people to give effective services to people and have
strong connection between both.
Regulatory change and legislations
It is stated that governmental laws and practices regarding health care practices plays an
important role. There is an act known as: patient protection and affordable act 2010, which is
encouraging health services as well as other department heads. It is also stated that this act can
pose an economic pressure on some people who are involved in the health care industry. This
unsuccessful of this law can have great negative impacts on decisions related to healthcare that
can directly impacts on the health of people. So, it can be said that legal aspect and practices
have a strong connection with health care practices as it can have both positive and negative
impacts Regulatory Change Versus Legislation Impact on Healthcare Decision, (2018).
Health policy and finance practices
It is stated that nowadays governments are finding themselves as facing with
unprecedented constraints on health and healthcare related decisions. There are several factors
such as legal, social and economical which give pressure on local decision-makers with the main
aim to improve health care of people and getting effective outcomes by reducing costs. Decision
of value is an important term that refers decisions with substantial and direct implications for
finance as well as qualitative results in healthcare settings Contextual Factors affecting Finance
and Quality Decisions in Health and Care, (2018).
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In addition, in the context of interrelationship of healthcare practices with finance and
practices, legislations, it can be said that finance and economic condition have great impacts on
health care services. For example, an effective financial condition of a country can make health
care institutes and hospitals able to invest more in healthcare related tools and improve their
quality Effective Healthcare Cost-containment Policies, (2019). With having strong economy,
they can even invest and implement some quality measurement tools. It helps them out in
identifying effectiveness of their services and tools as well. With the help of some payer
expenditure measurement tools, they can measure effectiveness of their implemented policy. So,
it can be said that there is a strong interrelationship between healthcare policies, regulations,
finance and practices.
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REFERENCES
Books and journals
Foth, T., & Holmes, D. (2018). Governing through lifestyle—Lalonde and the biopolitical
management of public health in Canada. Nursing Philosophy. 19(4). e12222.
Suchman, L., Hart, E., & Montagu, D. (2018). Public–private partnerships in practice:
collaborating to improve health finance policy in Ghana and Kenya. Health policy and
planning. 33(7). 777-785.
Online
Regulatory Change Versus Legislation Impact on Healthcare Decision. 2018. [Online].
Available through :<https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5737251/>.
Contextual Factors affecting Finance and Quality Decisions in Health and Care. 2018. [Online].
Available through :<https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6077272/>.
Effective Healthcare Cost-containment Policies. 2019. [Online]. Available
through :<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168851018306341>.
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