What Is Public Health Policy, Advocacy & Law?
After completing PH 431, learners will be proficient in describing advocacy, policy development and public health law, including its unique and important features, to general audiences. Key aspects of this competency expectation include: • distinguishing among the many definitions of the term “public policy” • identifying the “actors” and “institutions” at the local, state and federal levels who make public policy and/or provide input into the policy-making process • identifying the various forms that public policies take • understanding how the health determinants model may be used to analyze public policy • describing key dimensions of political competency and how to influence the policy-making process • describing the Unites States legal system, including its four type of laws and the basis for each type, and how challenges to laws are handled by the courts • describing administrative agencies, their functions, and the procedures called for by the Administrative Procedures Act • des
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