Describe how communicable and noncommunicable diseases impact the burden of disease.
Think of a policy issue. What are the short- and long-term obstacles to passage of a policy into law as it relates to legislators, special interest groups, key stakeholders, and the public? Describe the intra-party or inter-party issues that could stop movement of the policy in Congress. How would you advocate for this policy?
Please use the following references to answer this question:
Bhattacharya, D. (2013). Letters to the editor: A primer. In D. Bhattacharya (Ed.), Public health policy: Issues, theories, and advocacy (pp. 99–140). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass/Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Bhattacharya, D. (2013). The role of politics: Players, processes, and power. In D. Bhattacharya (Ed.), Public health policy: Issues, theories, and advocacy (pp. 99–140). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass/Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Czabanowska, K., Smith, T., Konings, K. D., Sumskas, L., Otok, R., Bjegovic-Mikanovic, V., & Brand, H. (2013). In search for a public health leadership competency framework to support leadership curriculum—a consensus study. European Journal of Public Health 24(5), 850–856. doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckt158
Day, M., Shickle, D., Smith, K., Zakariasen, K., Moskol, J., & Oliver, T. (2014, February 9). Training public health superheroes: Five talents for public health leadership. Journal of Public Health Advance Access, 1–10. doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdu004
Dodson, E., Stamatakis, K. A., Chalifour, S., Haire-Joshu, D., McBride, T., & Brownson, R. C. (2013). State legislator’s work on public health related issue: What influences priorities? Journal of Public Health Management and Practice 19(1), 25–29. doi: 10.1097/PHH.0b013e318246475c
Farrer, L., Marinetti, C., Cavaco, Y. K., & Costongs, C. (2015). Advocacy for health equity: A synthesis review. The Milbank Quarterly 93(2), 392–437. doi: 10.1111/1468-0009.121122-4
Garcia, L. B., Hernandez, K. E., & Mata, H. (2015). Professional development through policy advocacy: Communicating and advocating for health and health equity. Health Promotion Practice 16(2), 162–165.
Question 2
Describe how communicable and noncommunicable diseases impact the burden of disease. Include in your description, the effect of migration on the burden of disease as it relates to communicable and noncommunicable diseases.
Please use the following references to answer this question:
Abbott, A. (2016). The mental-health crisis among migrants. Nature, 538(7624), 158.
Skolnik, R. (2016). Global health 101 (3rd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.
University of California Berkeley, School of Public Health. (2016). The health initiative of the Americas. Retrieved from https://hia.berkeley.edu/ World Health Organization (WHO; 2017) Depression and other common mental disorders: Global health estimates. Geneva Switzerland: World Health Organization
