Assignment Instructions/ Description
You have been hired on as an assistant to the public health officer for the state. The budget deficit has impacted your state, and with elections high on the list of worries, legislators are concerned about their public image and are contemplating reducing the public health budget for the state. You are being asked to prepare a presentation to persuade legislators not to cut public health spending.
Select a public health program/service that will be impacted by a recently proposed state budget cut.
Prepare a PowerPoint presentation to persuade legislators not to cut public health funding. Present the cost/benefit of the public health program/service, the expected impact of the proposed cut, and conclude with an alternative proposal.
The presentation should have a minimum of 15 slides (not including the reference slides).
Notes should be present with each slide describing the information on the slide.
Provide supporting information. Use charts, graphs, and other visuals.
Please make sure to present some State and Local data of the community that will be impacted by the cuts.
Required Reading
Braendle, T., & Colombier, C. (2016). What drives public health care expenditure growth? Evidence from Swiss cantons, 1970�2012. Health Policy, 120(9), 1051-1060. Available in the Trident Online Library.
Committee on Public Health Strategies to Improve Health. (2012). Reforming public health and its financing. Institute of Medicine. Retrieved from the NCBI website at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK201015/
Lorenzoni, L., Belloni, A., & Sassi, F. (2014). Health-care expenditure and health policy in the USA versus other high-spending OECD countries. The Lancet, 384(9937), 83-92. Available in the Trident Online Library.
Marton, J., Sung, J., & Honore, P. (2015). Does more spending buy better health? Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology. Available in the Trident Online Library.
Tran, L. D., Zimmerman, F. J., & Fielding, J. E. (2017). Public health and the economy could be served by reallocating medical expenditures to social programs. SSM � Population Health, 3, 185-191. Available in the Trident Online Library.
Sessions, S. Y. (2012). Financing state and local public health departments: A problem of chronic illness. Institute of Medicine. Retrieved from the NCBI website at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK201021/
Paper Format: APA