Week 8 - Eight steps to building healthy public policies

1. Building healthy public policy

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3. Create supportive environment

4. Strengthen community action

5. Develop personal skills

6. Reorient health care services to prevent illness and promote health

Health public policy aim

to improve conditions people live in

policy making process is a …

coordinated action that leads to health, income, and social policies that foster greater equity

• involve variety of partners working together rot define a problem, adopt, implement, and evaluate the policy

3 Phases and 8 Steps for building health public policies

• Planning phase (5 step): group to plan type of policy that will address the problem experienced

  1. Identify, describe, and analyze the problem

     • develop an understanding of problem and gather info to determine appropriate solution

  2. Identify and analyze policy options

     • explore different policy options (and narrow down) in order to identify the most feasible ones and impactful ones

  3. Determine and understand decision-makers and influencer

     • determine which decision makers have the power to implement the policy, and understand their beliefs and attitudes regarding the problem and the policy

     • identify potential influencers

  4. Assess readiness for policy development

     • assess the readiness of communities, organizations, and decision-makers to support and implement the policy options

  5. Develop an action plan

     • develop an action plan to guide rate process of implementing a specific policy option

     • Conduct a Health Equity Impact Assessment (HEIA) on action plan

• Implementation phase (2 steps): Put decision in the planning phase into action

6. Implement the action plan

   • monitor the implementation of the action plan

   • make necessary adjustments collectively based on the economic and social environment, and the human and financial resources available

     • strep will ensure activities happen as envisioned

7. facilitate the adoption and implementation of the policy

   • engage decision-makers for policy uptake

   • focus on those who have decision making power to implement the policy within their setting

• evaluation phase (1 step): Develop a plant to evaluate the policy and the policy-making process

8. evaluate the policy

   • develop and manage an elevation plan and communicate the results

   • systematic process

   • activities throughout policy-making should be monitored and evaluates regularly

3 concepts fundamental to the policy making process that are implement

• Health in All Policies (HiAP)

• Advocacy

• Heath Equity Impact Assessment (HEIA)