MANDATORY NEW BORN SCREENINGS

MANDATORY NEW BORN SCREENINGS

Healthcare

Topic: Mandatory Newborn Screenings;

This assignment requires each student to research and develop a paper on the history of an existing health policy. Students can begin to conduct the research through literature reviews, internet searches, print media, etc to document:
€¢ The history of how the issue emerged to the attention of policymakers and ultimately onto a policy agenda
€¢ The main problems that the policy was intended to aIDress
€¢ Identification of any advocacy groups that pushed the development of the policy
€¢ Identification of any alternative policies that may have been explored to aIDress this issue
€¢ Any motivating factors that drove the issue through the Window of Opportunity
€¢ A description of the authoring legislation (law), resolution, rule, etc