Letter to the Editor:
This document is designed to give you questions to consider and additional guidance to help you successfully complete the Letter to the Editor: Population Health Policy Advocacy assessment. You may find it useful to use this document as a pre-writing exercise or as a final check to ensure that you have sufficiently addressed all the grading criteria for this assessment. This document is a resource to help you complete the assessment. Do not turn in this document as your assessment submission.
Evaluate the current state of the quality of care and outcomes for a specific issue in a target population.
· Based on the data that you used to identify your chosen issue in Assessment 1, what is the current state of the quality of care and outcomes?
· To what degree does the current state of the quality of care and outcomes need to be improved?
· How does the current performance compare to any relevant benchmarks?
· How does the current performance adversely impact the health of the target population?
Analyze how the current state of the quality of care and outcomes for a specific issue in a target population necessitates health policy development and advocacy.
· How does the current state of the quality of care and outcomes related to your chosen issue and target population illustrate the need for improvements?
· Why do you consider policy development and advocacy necessary?
· How will developing a health policy help to improve the quality of care and outcomes related to your chosen issue and target population?
· Why is advocating for health policy development necessary to drive improvements?
Justify why a developed policy will be vital in improving the quality of care and outcomes for a specific issue in a target population.
· Why will your proposed policy (from Assessment 2) be vital in improving the quality of care and outcomes related to your chosen issue and target population?
· How will your proposed policy help drive improvements?
· What evidence or best-practices supports this? How does the evidence provide support?
Advocate for policy development in other care settings with regard to a specific issue in a target population.
· Why is it important that policy development focused on your chosen issue and target population take place in care environments and settings beyond that for which you proposed the policy?
· How will wider development of policies help to drive improvements related to your chosen issue and target population?
· Ideally, what is the end result of wider policy development and implementation?
Analyze the ways in which interprofessional aspects of a developed policy will support efficient and effective achievement of desired outcomes for the target population.
· What are the relevant interprofessional aspects of your policy?
· How will these interprofessional aspects support efficient achievement of your desired outcomes for your target population?
· How will these interprofessional aspects support effective achievement of your desired outcomes for your target population?
Communicate in a professional and persuasive manner, writing content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
· Is your writing clear and professional?
· Is your writing free from errors?
· Is your writing persuasive?
· Does your submission conform to the format and length requirements of your chosen journal?