UNIT V ESSSAY

UNIT IV ESSAY

Present your work as a two-page report formatted in the APA style as a Word document. Include four quality references where two of them are from peer-reviewed articles.

Unit V Essay

Process of Health Policy Making: Policy Formation

Identify an organization in your local community, or state that could "weigh in” on the health policy debate concerning the epidemic of childhood obesity.

Analyze what role this organization could or should play in shaping local or state health policy around the issue of childhood obesity.

In your assessment, reference at least one element or concept from course textbook Chapter 8, regarding the application of strategic thinking (public health and the policy process: micro and macro dimensions) to this organization's decision to become involved in this policy-making arena.