Policy Implementation Activities

Supporting Lectures:
Review the following lecture:
Policy Implementation Activities
Evaluating Health Policy
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One of the most important activities associated with policy implementation is evaluation. There are a number of different types of evaluations including: process and outcome, formative and summative, and cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness evaluations. There is no one evaluation that yields all of the information necessary to make an effective policy and, as such, different types of evaluation are often employed.
Choose one type of evaluation that is appropriate to health policy implementation activities and address the following:
Describe one implementation method and its purpose
Compare and contrast that implementation method with at least one other approach
Provide an example of how an implementation agency may utilize the chosen implementation method and the type of information generated
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Submit your posting to the Discussion Area by the due date assigned. Be sure to use the lessons and vocabulary found in the reading.
Follow-up posts need to be submitted by the end of the week

From your course textbook, Longest’s Health Policymaking in the United States, read the following chapters:
Policy Implementation
Role of the Judicial Branch in Health Policy and Policymaking
From the Internet, review the following:
American Government. (n.d.). Policy Making: Political Interactions. Retrieved from http://www.ushistory.org/gov/11.asp
The WHITE HOUSE. (n.d.). The Executive Branch. Retrieved from https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/executive-branch