Advocating for Public Health Policy. Imagine that you have been chosen to represent a public health advocacy group as they begin a campaign to get legislation related to a health issue passed in your state legislature. You have been tasked with the role of presenting a proposed policy to the legislature and advocating that the legislature vote for the policy. You have been told that you will have 10 minutes to present to the legislature. Your presentation should be informative, but also persuasive. The legislature will need to make a decision about whether or not to vote for the policy based on your presentation. Your presentation should be structured exactly as if you were “live”\ufffd in front of the legislature advocating for them to adopt the policy you are proposing.\tFor your assignment, you will need to select a public health topic of interest to you (you are encouraged to choose one related to your academic major or intended field of work) and a public health policy related to addressing the topic. You may select an actual proposed policy or create one that you think would effectively address the topic. Your presentation should provide enough information about the topic and the proposed policy that a reasonably educated legislator should be able to make an informed decision. Be sure to consider the various questions that a legislator might have about the issue and proposed policy, such as long-term costs and benefits, potential effects on business and industry (especially those that support politicians’ campaigns), and how the policy will support the health and productivity of state residents.\u00a0\t\u00a0\tFor this assignment, you should create an approximately 10 minute presentation* that addresses each of the following points:\t\uf0b7 \ufffd\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Discuss the public health issue that your proposed policy is intended to address.\u00a0Questions to consider:\to\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Who does this health issue affect?\to\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0What is the impact of this health issue on the community?\to\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Why does this health issue need to be addressed?\t\uf0b7 \ufffd\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Explain the proposed public health policy.\u00a0Questions to consider:\to\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Who will be affected by this policy?\to\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0How will this policy address the health issue?\to\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0What will change by enacting this policy?\t\uf0b7 \ufffd\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Evaluate the impacts of the proposed policy.\u00a0Questions to consider:\to\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0What are the costs and benefits of the policy?\to\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0What are the risks of enacting or notenacting the policy?\to\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0How will the lives of people who are affected by the health issue change if this policy is enacted?\t\uf0b7 \ufffd\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Create an influential presentation that affects voting behaviors of legislators.\u00a0Questions to consider:\to\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0What information about this policy would potentially affect the voting behavior of legislators\u00a0from across the political spectrum (eg. conservative, moderate, liberal, progressive; particularly\u00a0those who might not support the policy based on political orientation)?\to\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0What are the most important messages that legislators need to hear about this policy?\to\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0How would the constituents of the legislators voting for this policy feel about this policy and a\u00a0legislator who votes for it?\to\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0What information would a legislator need to “sell”\ufffd the policy to consitutents who were perhaps\u00a0not in favor of adopting the policy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Advocating for Public Health Policy. Imagine that you have been chosen to represent a public health advocacy group as they begin a campaign to get legislation related to a health issue passed in your state legislature. You have been tasked Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}