Approach to Skin Cancer Prevention Through Policy and Education

Objectives
Review the healthcare policy you selected to study in Unit 1 (see attached file)
Research your chosen policy to determine the following information:
The policy’s effects on healthcare delivery
How does the topic tie into and affect the Social Determinants of Health
The impact on your organization and/or community
Key performance indicators (KPIs) used in evaluation
Financial implications of your policy

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Peer Response
Reflect on your peer’s topic and the Social Determinants of Health
Consider additional aspects of the Social Determinants of Health and how they apply to your chosen peer’s topic. Approach to Skin Cancer Prevention Through Policy and Education Instructions

Post your original response.
Use sources that are within 5 years of publication
Post a minimum of 2 follow-up responses.
Check your syllabus for specific due dates.
See the rubric for graded content description.
In order to easily meet the minimum curiosity points, please use the Bloom’s verbs when posing your initial question. See Unit 1/Week 1 Packback Directions for Bloom’s information.

Packback Questions
Participation is a requirement for this course, and the Packback Questions platform will be used for online discussion about class topics. Packback Questions is an online community where you can be fearlessly curious and ask open-ended questions to build on top of what we are covering in class and relate topics to real-world applications.

Packback Requirements:
Your participation on Packback counts as a weighted percentage of your overall course grade. Each Packback Discussion is worth a total of 10 points. Approach to Skin Cancer Prevention Through Policy and Education

There will be a Sunday 11:59PM deadline for submissions in the units that have a Packback assignments. In order to receive full credit, you should submit the following per each deadline period:

1 open-ended Question every week with a minimum Curiosity Score of >90, worth 5pts of each assignment grade
2 Responses every week with a minimum Curiosity Score of >90, worth 5pts of each assignment grade
Half credit will be provided for questions and responses that do not meet the minimum curiosity score based on quality of topic input.
You must head the question by first inserting the Unit # and Week # – if the instructor is unsure which unit and week of the discussion posting that discussion is at risk for not being graded. An example of the Packback discussion question is below:
Unit 1 Week 1: Which policies construct exemplary retention for healthcare personnel during a pandemic?

This implies that the emphasis of the presentation is on dermatological treatment with references on policies and policy as specifically to skin cancer prevention which sends a signal that if a proper policy on screening for skin cancer is made accessing this service can be main streamed. The SDH and this policy are connected since they determine the overall health condition of the community. These factors include accessibility of health services, the availability of health education focusing on the importance of skin health, and efficient preventive care costing. Approach to Skin Cancer Prevention Through Policy and Education

This approach might be the major determinant of the strategies applied in health services delivery. Routine availability of skin cancer testing makes it possible to activate the most responsive of healthcare policy approaches and implement proactive approaches (Horgan et al., 2022). This would help the budget of the medical institutions to be reduced and doctors would not operate on the expensive stage of cancers in order to save lives of any cancer patient through the early screening of the point of view of skin cancer.

Relation between SDH and this policy is highly comprehensive as has the effect on various topics. One of the critical issues is that the policy tends to be accompanied by financial implications which demands an increase in co-pays to the preventative level, wider inclusion of insurance coverage of dermatology treatments as well as targeting issues related to economic instability (Duque, 2021). The risk factors explaining skin cancer and why early diagnosis is important should be counseled, before these knowledge is becoming a part of their learning process. These interventions let the patients know about the availabilities they can seek assistance from when they need skilled healthcare. On the other hand, we plan to increase the efforts towards boosting dermatology accessibility and the quality of the care offered by ensuring the people get screened for any related issues with their skin and immediate response to the follow up in case is needed. Approach to Skin Cancer Prevention Through Policy and Education

Plans aim at improvement of public knowledge about those conditions and provide better preventive strategies. They include introducing mass screening and education campaigns; developing yearly monitoring schemes for both individuals and communities; and lowering the number of victims due to melanoma. Possible savings manifest its long-term economic process through the prevention of treatments costs and also by improving the health conditions of the society. As a result, social well-being and community health are guaranteed by the creation of comprehensive policies involving the reduction of disparities in population, hence, sitting on a fine line (Clark et al., 2022)Approach to Skin Cancer Prevention Through Policy and Education.

References

Clark, L. P., Tabory, S., Tong, K., Servadio, J. L., Kappler, K., Xu, C. K., … & Ramaswami, A. (2022). A data framework for assessing social inequality and equity in multi‐sector social, ecological, infrastructural urban systems: Focus on fine‐spatial scales. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 26(1), 145-163. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jiec.13222

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Duque, R. B. (2021). Black health matters too… especially in the era of Covid-19: how poverty and race converge to reduce access to quality housing, safe neighborhoods, and health and wellness services and increase the risk of co-morbidities associated with global pandemics. Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities, 8, 1012-1025. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40615-020-00857-w

Horgan, D., Baird, A. M., Middleton, M., Mihaylova, Z., Van Meerbeeck, J. P., Vogel-Claussen, J., … & Bertolaccini, L. (2022, August). How Can the EU Beating Cancer Plan Help in Tackling Lung Cancer, Colorectal Cancer, Breast Cancer and Melanoma?. In Healthcare (Vol. 10, No. 9, p. 1618). MDPI. https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/10/9/1618 Approach to Skin Cancer Prevention Through Policy and Education