Organizations Influencing Health Policy

Organizations Influencing Health Policy

Week 01 Discussion: Organizations Influencing Health Policy

Question:

Read over the list of Key Organizations on the NICHSR website. https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hsrph.html

Using the website above, select an organization from each of the three categories:

  1. Federal Agencies,
  2. Association and Organizations,
  3. International Organizations, Associations

that has a role in influencing health policy. For each of your three chosen sites, describe the organization’s chief purpose and give one example of a policy it has influenced. (Hint: visit the organization’s website.)

Reference:
HSRIC. (n.d.). Key organizations. NIH, National Library of Medicine.

Week 1: Required Readings