HEALTHCARE POLICY: A GLOBAL HEALTH ISSUE Spring 2022
Diana Dinh, BSPS candidate
Raegan Meyers, PharmD student
Jordan Keuneke, BSPS candidate
Ayush Kaw, PharmD student
Bryce Poindexter, BSPS candidate
Background Healthcare policies are the laws, regulations, and practices that are implemented to protect the well-being of the people. They affect not only individual patients, but also play a role in the function of larger institutions. Here, we examine healthcare policies that arise in the areas of harm reduction, public vs private healthcare, paid leave, alternative medicine, and FDA regulations. Our research has yielded insight into the limitations of harm reduction services in global pandemics and rural communities, the safety concerns with the FDA fast track program and the policies implemented to address them, as well as, looking at the laws around all types of paid leave in the United States and how we compare to the rest of the world in terms of the amount of time and support given, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of both private and public healthcare.
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