Tonight’s AgendaTonight’s Agenda

• Questions from Unit 3?• Review of Unit 4

– You’ll go offline from Seminar for a brief time tonight to do some research for discussion

• Overview of Unit 4 Assignments• Last call for questions• Adjourn

• The US Constitution :all US laws are based upon. The Constitution is the reason that we have the right to privacy, the right to a trial with a jury of our peers, and many other freedoms.

• Created September 17, 1787• The Constitution has been amended twenty-

seven times; the first ten amendments are known as the Bill of Rights.

Bill of RightsBill of Rights

• All about individuals rights: freedom of speech, religion, bear arms, fair trials etc. Gives power to individual states to create laws.

• How does this affect health care?• Tons of laws in healthcare:

• Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) • Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA), • The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), • Newborns' and Mothers' Health Protection Act (Newborns' Act) • Mental Health Parity Act (MHPA) • Women's Health and Cancer Rights Act (WHCRA) • Laws how care is given, licensing for practitioners etc.

• Federal, state, and local governments are responsible for public health because private organizations lack the resources and infrastructure to perform functions associated with public health.

• most federal health initiatives. (Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)

The Department of Health and Human The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Services (DHHS)

The DHHS and various federal agencies perform several public health functions.

•Data gathering and analysis, and surveillance and control: The CDC

•Conducting and sponsoring research: The NIH

•Providing programmatic assistance to state and local governments

The Department of Health and Human The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Services (DHHS)

The DHHS and various federal agencies perform several public health functions.

•Ensuring the safety of food and drugs: The FDA

•Ensuring access to health services by aged and poor people: The CMS

•Providing direct services to special populations

Other Sources of Health PolicyOther Sources of Health Policy

• Health policy in the United States involves federal, state, and local governmental agencies. OSHA, HIPAA– Fed, but states carry out.. Licenses, inspections

• it requires enormous expenditures and is funded by various sources.

• Government agencies in charge of public health policy coordinate their efforts with those of private health care organizations to achieve public health care goals.

• Surveillance and data collection for diseases• All states have state health departments • State laws focus on preserving public health;

federal laws focus on federal health• Local Agencies

Multiple “Layers”Multiple “Layers”

The Role of Local AgenciesThe Role of Local Agencies

• Engaging in surveillance and monitoring of diseases

• Administering immunizations• Screening for communicable

diseases• Offering patient education• Coordinating the provision of

private and public health services

Find Out More About DHHSFind Out More About DHHS

• http://www.hhs.gov/about/

• 1) what is the HHS?• 2) The work of HHS is conducted by ?• 3) Has how many agencies?• 4)click on tab to the right on top of page that says:

regulations. Find one law, policy, regulation you had no idea was covered by the government.

• Write it down, come back to seminar in 15 mins and we will discuss them.

WEEK 4 ASSIGNMENTWEEK 4 ASSIGNMENT

• TOPIC 1 BLOOD BORNE PATHOGENS• http://www.cdc.gov/oralhealth/infectioncontrol/faq/bloodborne_expo

sures.htm• http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?

p_table=standards&p_id=10051• TOPIC 2- The American Disability Act • http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/fs-ada.html• http://www.access-board.gov/about/laws/ada.htm

• TOPIC 3- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) • http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/• www.hipaa.org• https://www.cms.gov/hipaageninfo/