IUP Healthcare issues Assignment: Issue Analysis – Final Paper

Getting StartedExamine current issues in Healthcare Policy and Management.ResourcesBackground InformationIssue Analysis GuidanceAn issue analysis looks at an issue from two or more points of view and then develops a reasoned response. Factual material is used in support of opinions.Thesis StatementYour thesis statement is centered on an inclusive sentence or sentences that provide an overview for the reader and predicts the content of your paper. If your issue is the use of prescription drug abuse, for example, your thesis should address the various stakeholders? perspectives on this issue and be clear, specific, and focused. You will want to synthesize the various components of this problem and analyze how the various articles you research are arguing the solution to the problem or why there is a problem.Your beginning thesis is a ?working thesis?. As you write your first draft of the paper, you will return to and change your thesis to include perhaps another perspective that you might have discovered through research. The thesis in your final paper will be that polished and finished statement or statements that are all-inclusive and synthesize the various sub-issues or perspectives covered in the paper.The following questions/points may be helpful to you in developing your analysis.Define any specific vocabulary needed to understand this issue.Identify all possible positions on the issue. Which two are the key opposing sides?Find all of the facts that support one position.Find all of the facts that support the opposing position.What beliefs/values are in conflict in this issue?Take a position on the issue. Explain why you chose this position.How could you influence others to support your position?What steps did you use to analyze this issue?Analysis of Perspectives/Sub-Issues/StakeholdersIn your research, you will need to find articles, both scholarly and mainstream press, which support any claim you make. You will use this research to build a framework in your paper that analyzes the views of various perspectives/sub-issues/stakeholders within the larger issue. You will also examine the justifications made by these groups. Your analysis should be sophisticated. It should not only see two sides of an issue but also multiple parts of the larger situation, while carefully examining or analyzing each part.OrganizationYour essay should follow a clear organization plan that is logical and easy for the reader to understand. The thesis statement should give the readers a sense of this plan. Sentences and paragraphs should be coherent and focused, and transitions should help the essay to flow clearly.AnalysisSynthesis/ThesisOrganizationResearch (use of sources, integrating sources, etc.)Conventions (style, grammar, etc.)InstructionsReview the rubric to make sure you understand the criteria for earning your grade.This assignment is the final paper you will present to the Committee of the Senate.Review Chapters 1-19 in Changing the U.S. Health Care System: Key Issues in Health Services Policy and Management.Consider the previous submissions and feedback received from prior workshops.Using a proper APA layout, citations, and references page, submit the final draft of the Issue Analysis.When you?ve completed your assignment, save a copy for yourself and submit a copy to your instructor using the Assignment submission page by the end of the workshop.