Health policy is a form of government by which society is governed, regulated, for the common good in relation to the health of citizens. The public health policy not only takes care of distributive justice, but also tries to maximize the health of the entire population. Thus, there are three health policy goals that must be weighed:
Maximize health
Reduce health inequalities
Favor those who deserve it, against those who do not, depending on their lifestyles.
Currently, health is considered as a right of every citizen that the state should provide. Against the background of economic depression, but interested in implementing a new health policy for the achievement of the goal of health for all, many countries make adjustments to their health policies and seek diligently to incorporate mechanisms that enable the new concept of public health, decreased health care costs and address the epidemiological transition.
Discussion
Historical Background of the Policy
Health policy is a difficult problem for the USA. No state agency or any other social institution has been appointed the role of development or implementation of national health policy. Most decisions in this society it is done in or on the market. In addition, the U.S. Constitution says nothing about the issue of health and health care. Although the preamble promises Tenth Amendment to the Constitution "to promote the general welfare" includes the following: "The powers not transferred to the USA by the Constitution, not prohibited, it reserves the state, the state or nation." Neither education nor health rests with the federal government in the Constitution. Political decisions can change the social landscape and the health organization of a country, a region or a locality. These decisions depend on:
The ideology of political parties
Those with public responsibilities for social sensitivity and knowledge
Political attitude to the need and the ability of doctors.
The House of Representatives recently, HR 3162, Children's Health and Medical Protection Act of 2007 "approved (" Bill "). Support for the bill in the House was much in the majority, and it was relatively insignificant. According to the summary prepared by the committees on ways and means, Energy and Commerce, § 651: The elimination of a whole except for hospitals, doctors not to refer themselves to hospitals in which they own. The law applies to all hospitals and requires hospitals to current standards in the performance of 18 months of adoption, including: the prevention of growth, requires disclosure of ownership, which limits physician ownership of the aggregate no more than 40% of the plants and no more than 2% individually and disclosure of patients if they not 24 hours of medical insurance. The Senate also recently passed a law supporting health care policies similar to the bill before the summer holidays. Nobody will change the overall system of health care service of USA.
Many boards are now called the confidence of directors and an administrator monitors the administration, but rather in the field of public administration. (Burgess & Wilson, 1996)