For this assessment, you will write a letter to the editor of a scholarly journal. Your goal is to be informative about the policy that you developed for your previous Biopsychosocial Population Health Policy Proposal assessment, while also being persuasive about the need for and benefit of similar policies in other health care settings. The bullet points below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Be sure that your assessment submission addresses all of them. You may also want to read the Letter to the Editor: Population Health Policy Advocacy Scoring Guide and Guiding Questions: Letter to the Editor: Population Health Policy Advocacy [DOC] Download Guiding Questions: Letter to the Editor: Population Health Policy Advocacy [DOC]to better understand how each grading criterion will be assessed.
- Evaluate the current state of the quality of care and outcomes for a specific issue in a target population.
- Look back to the data or scenario you used in your previous assessment to address this criterion.
- 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.
- Justify why the developed policy will be vital in improving the quality of care and outcomes for a specific issue in a target population.
- Advocate for policy development in other care settings with regard to a specific issue in a target population.
- Analyze the ways in which interprofessional aspects of the policy will support efficient and effective achievement of desired outcomes for the target population.
- Communicate in a professional and persuasive manner, writing content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
- Integrate relevant sources to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style (or the journal’s preferred style).
Example assessment: You may use the Assessment 3 Example [PDF] Download Assessment 3 Example [PDF]to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like.