Developing Organizational Policies and Practices Identify and describe at least two competing needs impacting your selected healthcare issue/stressor.

Developing Organizational Policies and Practices Identify and describe at least two competing needs impacting your selected healthcare issue/stressor.

The selected health care issue is poor public perception of health care since it has implications for care delivery. The issue is noted to make patients resistant to advice from medical personnel with lower qualification, overreliance on subclinical care, shift towards considering health care as a commodity (Anderlini, 2018), and political rivalries that politicize health care issues (Vogenberg & Marcoux, 2018). Although the negative impacts of poor public perception create a concern in health care delivery, there are competing needs that turn the issue into less of a priority.Assignment: Developing Organizational Policies and Practices.

The first competing need is poverty and the capacity to pay for health care. Poverty and ill health are closely linked. In fact, the two have a bilateral relationship that results in a vicious cycle. Persons living in poverty and unable to pay for health care will be unable to access the required healthcare at the right quality to improve health. In addition, poverty causes ill health as poor persons suffer from a myriad of health compromising intangible and tangible deprivations.Assignment: Developing Organizational Policies and Practices. This results in ill health that continues to affect the individual’s financial status by increasing the susceptibility to catastrophic health care costs and loss of income as the individual recuperates. Besides that, ill health exacerbates poverty through disposal of assets and increased debts. Also, poverty results in disadvantaged material living conditions that drive ill health by causing psychological stress and poor lifestyle choices that is linked more closely with the burden of non-communicable diseases. Poverty creates the perception that good health is expensive and difficult to achieve (Chung et al., 2020).Assignment: Developing Organizational Policies and Practices.

The second competing need is the availability of adequate staffing of medical personnel in the face of staff availability and fiscal pressures. The lack of adequate staffing is noted to result in high readmissions, patient dissatisfaction, longer lengths of stays and more adverse events – all things that can negatively impact the bottom line and care quality.Assignment: Developing Organizational Policies and Practices. Additionally, inadequate staffing increases nurse burnout so that more nurses leave the profession with high turnovers thus exacerbating the staffing problem. Inadequate staffing creates the perception that the delivered care quality is low (Raingruber, 2017). In this respect, poverty and capacity to pay for health care, and adequate staffing of medical personnel are two competing needs that impact public perception of health care