Agenda Comparison Grid Assignment Template for Part 1 and Part 2

Part 1: Agenda Comparison Grid 

Use this Agenda Comparison Grid to document information about the population health/healthcare issue you selected and the presidential agendas. By completing this grid, you will develop a more in depth understanding of your selected issue and how you might position it politically based on the presidential agendas.

You will use the information in the Part 1: Agenda Comparison Grid to complete the remaining Part 2 and Part 3 of your Assignment. 

Identify the Population Health concern you selected.

Mental health mental illness. Several factors, such as genes, family history, and life exposure, can contribute to risks; stress can also be a result of a chemical imbalance in the brain or traumatic brain injury. Mental illness affects thinking, mood, behavior, ability to relate to others, and daily activities function; mental diseases can be acute or chronic.

Mental illness involves some therapy, medication, and social support, and some may need intensive treatment.

Describe the Population Health concern you selected.

Mental illness cut across all popolation can affect  the new born, can affect children later in life, can be develop at neenger, adult or among the elderly.There is no single cause of mental illness. Several factors, such as genes, family history, and life exposure, can contribute to risks; stress can also be a result of a chemical imbalance in the brain or traumatic brain injury. Mental illness affects thinking, mood, behavior, ability to relate to others, and daily activities function; mental diseases can be acute or chronic.

Administration (President Name)

President Obama

President Trump

Explain how each of the two presidential administrations approached the issue.

President Obama launched a national dialogue and took executive action to strengthen mental health care across the country for all affected populations, especially the vulnerable and marginalized communities prone to experiencing this menace.

The Office of National Drug Control Policy (n.d.) shows that former President Trump created a federal commission on combating drug addiction and the opioid crisis, which impacted mental health. However, critics argued that his policies still fell short.

Identify the allocations of resources that the current and previous presidents dedicated to this issue.

Biden-Harris Administration announces more than two hundred million to support  youth mental health

The president established a cabinet level working group to access the mental health need of the most unfavourable including the elderly minorities children veterans and people with dissabilites. The order also focus on providing grant funding to support mental health treatment services including tel-heath, peer to peer and save in-person therapeutic services, the president also also working to award contract and grant communities organizations mental support

Part 2: Agenda Comparison Grid Analysis 

Using the information you recorded in Part 1: Agenda Comparison Grid, complete the following to document information about the population health/healthcare issue you selected

Administration 

Which administrative agency (like HHS, CDC, FDA, OHSA) would most likely be responsible for helping you address the healthcare issue you selected? Why is this agency the most helpful?

HHS will support strategies to drive the integration of behavioral health into the health care system to strengthen and expand  access to mental health substance use disorder treatment and recovery services for individual and families across all ages

Is government agency that plays a crucial role in promoting and providing resources for mental health.  Oversees Funding and policies related to mental health

How do you think your selected healthcare issue might get on the presidential agenda? How does it stay there?

Mental health disability affect, Mental health has become an increasingly prominent issue that has risen to presidential attention in recent years (Panchal et al., 2021). Mental health dose not only affect the patient but the population at large. Most gun short crises is attributed to mental heath 

Who would you choose to be the entrepreneur/ champion/sponsor (this can be a celebrity, a legislator, an agency director, or others) of the healthcare issue you selected? An example is Michael J. Fox a champion for Parkinson’s disease.

Oprah  donated $1 million to teach Americas social Emotional Learning program. Shanna A. Jefferson is a licensed clinical social worker with over ten years of professional help and support working  in various mental health issue, morally and financially.