Assignment Task:
Advocacy Priorities
Identifying barriers and challenges that impact vulnerable and marginalized groups is an important first step, but advocates cannot stop there. What can be done to address the inequities, the challenges, and the barriers? How might an advocate use policy to enact change?
The Allegory of the Orchard required you to consider the barriers and challenges of specific vulnerable or marginalized populations. In our Week 1 Discussion, you identified a specific population connected to your practice, organization, or experience. This week you will explore that population further by determining a specific advocacy priority for the population.
Resources:
Be sure to review the Learning Resources before completing this activity.
Click the weekly resources link to access the resources.
Weekly Resources:
Required Resources
Readings
1. Dawes, Daniel E. (2020). The political determinants of health. Johns Hopkins University Press.
o Chapter 3, "The Political Determinants of Health Model" (pp. 41-77)
Media
- Get it Right! A Global Health Channel. (2020). How to Understand What Are Vulnerable Groups in Less than 3 Minutes.
YouTube: How to understand what are Vulnerable Groups in less than 3 minutes?
Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 3 minutes.
YouTube Video: Voting, Health Policy, and Social Justice: Political Determinants of Health
Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 58 minutes.
- Malloy, Donald. (2020). YouTube Video: Vulnerable Populations In Healthcare: Do you know who they are?
Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 3 minutes.
- Satcher Health Leadership Institute. (2021). The Political Determinants of Health -- Jessica's Story (YouTube Video)
Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 5 minutes.
To Prepare:
- Review your selected population discussed in the Module 1, Week 1 Discussion: Allegory of the Orchard.
- Review the resources on vulnerable or marginalized populations.
- Consider the factors that create and maintain these populations.
- Reflect on nursing's relationship with these populations and how this shapes our role in policy advocacy.
Using the selected population discussed in the Week 1 Discussion: Allegory of the Orchard, post a response detailing the following:
- What are the advocacy priorities for the population? What are the needs of this population?
- How are disparities reflected in policy and policy reflected in the disparities?
- What is the role of nursing, individually and collectively, in influencing policy decisions that adversely impact vulnerable populations?