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Health impact assessment (HIA) is defined as "a combination of procedures, methods, and tools by which a policy, program, or project may be judged as to its potential effects on the health of a population, and the distribution of those effects within the population."
The Journal of Healthcare Management is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering management in health care. It is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins on behalf of the American College of Healthcare Executives. [1] Each issue prints an interview with a leading healthcare executive.
A policy alternative's lack of political feasibility can often be attributed to its lack of political support or the result of controversy that may surround the issue the policy seeks to address. [5] Alternatively, a politically feasible alternative is one that has the greatest probability of "receiv[ing] sufficient political push and support ...
Macro-level political risk looks at non-project specific risks. Macro political risks affect all participants in a given country. [10] A common misconception is that macro-level political risk only looks at country-level political risk; however, the coupling of local, national, and regional political events often means that events at the local level may have follow-on effects for stakeholders ...
It examines the political nature of health and healthcare within the wider public health and medical contexts. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] An early publication in the discipline of health politics was a 1977 article by P.J. Schmidt titled "National Blood Policy, 1977: a study in the politics of health" [ 7 ] which focused on policy in the United States .
Qualitative research includes case studies and interviews with community members. Quantitative research includes survey research, statistical analysis (also called data analysis) and model building. A common practice is to define the problem and evaluation criteria; identify and evaluate alternatives; and recommend a certain policy accordingly.
This form of assessment requires gaining information from research literature and existing practices to assess various components of the program theory. The evaluator can assess whether the program theory is congruent with research evidence and practical experiences of programs with similar concepts. [8] Assessment via preliminary observation [8]
Unwarranted variations in medical practice refer to the differences in care that cannot be explained by the illness/medical need or by patient preferences. The term “unwarranted variations” was first coined by Dr. John Wennberg when he observed small area (geographic) and practice style variations, which were not based on clinical rationale. [5]