1- State a policy question

1- State a policy question 2- how would you measure the outcomes of your policy 3. challenges and promoters of your policy. please help with some examples . what's the difference between a policy question and a PICOT question. 4. Thank you very much

1. State a Policy Question

 A policy question usually concerns itself with broad influences of applying or altering a regime. It concerns issues relating to policy in as much as policy making, implementation and consequences in a specific context.

 Example Policy Question:

 “What degree is promoting compulsory vaccinations useful in avoiding occurrences of preventable diseases in children in public school?”

 2. By your own estimation, by how would inculcate measure the impact of your specific policy?

 In this case, information should be gathered which in one way or another gives information on whether the policy is meeting the target set or not. Here are steps and examples for measuring policy outcomes:Here are descriptions of the steps and example for measuring policy outcomes;

 Steps:

 Define Objectives: Find for what purpose is a specific policy intended for.

 Example: To cut down by at least half the mortality arising from fatal diseases which are in fact preventable within the next 2 years.

 Select Key Performance Indicators (KPIs): Therefore, it is advisable to choose indicators that would show policy effectiveness.

 Examples: Proportionalities of vaccination, proportionalities of incidence of diseases which in reality are preventable, number of school children who fail to attend classes due to illnesses.

 Data Collection: Acquire data pertaining to the situation during the time of implementing some polices and the final position after the implementation.

 Examples: Passports to health, immunisation records, health records of school.

 Analyze Data: As it will be evident on this paper, this will make it easy to compare the data with an aim of establishing whether or not the established objectives have been met.

 Example: This is in a sex way by comparing the disease incidents that occurred before policy implementation with that of after policy implementation.

 Review and Adjust: Based on such results produce a recommendation that calls for change or more often a lack of change in the policies.

 Example: If the policy did not contribute to the achievement of the envisaged reduction, it should be reconsidered including such factors as availability of vaccines and compliance.

 3. Challenges and Support to Your Policy

 Challenges:

 Public Resistance: Citizens of a country failing to take a mandatory vaccination due to one or the other belief or misleading information that they come across.

 Example: Some of the negative consequences that may arise include: Reduced confidence in vaccines by the targeted groups of the people.

 Resource Allocation: That physical resource including financial resources used in supporting the vaccination and other related programs.

 Example: Lack of a wide immunization coverage to the general population and especially to the hard to reach population.

 Data Management: Examples when it comes to the tracking of the rates of vaccination as well as incidence of a given disease.

 Example: Inadequate or out-of-date medical records, both general and / or in specific specialties.

 Promoters:

 Educational Campaigns: The required message that such kind of advertising reiterates, is that of vaccination, and the benefits and safety implied in them for human beings.

 Example: Informants in schools and through the social marketing communication channels such as ordinary conversation, radio, TV and newspaper adverting.

 Incentives: Encouraging suggestion for instance giving free vaccine or gifts for people who have received vaccine.

 Example: Free vaccination in school and contemplates in other areas of the communities such as the community center.

 Policy Support: One of the largest benefits of the technical analysis approach is the great backing of health related organizations and governments.

 Example: Recommendations based on the WHO and county and city health department recommendations.

 4. The difference between a Policy Question and a PICOT Question is that:The difference between a Policy Question and a PICOT Question is that:

 Policy Question:

 Focus: Broad and associated with the effectiveness and outcome of some of the policies or treatment.

 Example: Target clients’ questions: ‘’To what extent is the compliance with the vaccinations effective in the exclusion of communicable diseases among children attending public schools? ’’

 PICOT Question:

 Focus: Selective and systematic Which are employed mostly in activities under EBP to develop questions for research.

 Components:

 P (Population): The focus, which are the people that will be the objects of research.

 I (Intervention): The object treated in the intervent or exposed in the intervent or exposure being tested.

 C (Comparison): The finally determined group of children that did not get the type of intervention they preferred or the group with whom the kind of intervent ion under research was compared.

 O (Outcome): The dependent variable as the reference to measure and known as the variable that interests the change.

 T (Time): The time within which the impact of a project is considered; this has to do with the time frame that is taken to consider the impact of the project in question.

 Example PICOT Question:

 ‘What is the number of children of 5-10 years, who had influenza (O) out of those who received the flu vaccine (I) versus children in the same age bracket who did not receive flu vaccine (C) in one given flu season (T)?’

 Therefore, the policy implications policy questions are somewhat related to general questions related to the policy while the questions under the PICOT questions are related to more specific questions of the study in terms of interventions and the results that are expected to be achieved.