Due May 19,2015

The major written assignment, a Health Policy Analysis. Completion of this paper will involve research utilizing selected websites and the Ashford Online Library.

You are employed as an analyst in a state governor’s office and have been asked to write a 3 to 4 page health policy analysis. Your analysis will include the following;

1. Problem Statement:
   1. A one to three sentence question in which you succinctly identify a health-related problem.
   2. Do not include any recommendations in your problem statement, but rather phrase your problem statement so that it lends itself to an analysis that considers several options.
2. Background:
   1. Explain why the problem has been selected for analysis.
   2. Provide statistics and background data to document the scope and nature of the problem.
3. Landscape Identification:
   1. Identify the key stakeholders and the factors that must be considered e.g. political, social, economic, practical, and legal factors when analyzing the problem.
   2. For each factor, your analysis should discuss relevant views of the identified stakeholders.
   3. You may organize this section by stakeholder or by factor. Some stakeholders may not have relevant views for all of the factors, but each stakeholder must be addressed as often as necessary to convey his/her policy position.
   4. The tone of the landscape section should be neutral and objective.