Continue evaluating the company that you selected in Unit 1. This week, consider both the strengths and weaknesses of the company related to diversity issues and its impact upon perceptions of fairness, justice, social problems, social change, and respect. Does the company possess strengths in any of these areas? Has the company experienced problems in any of these areas? Analyze the company’s diversity efforts, and assess whether the company’s efforts, policies, programs, procedures, and so forth are effective in supporting diversity. How effective is the company at positively impacting perceptions of fairness, justice, social problems, social change, and respect? Include specific examples and evidence supporting your analysis of the strengths, weaknesses, and effectiveness

Strengths and Weaknesses

Identify the strengths and weaknesses of the company relating to diversity issues.

Discuss how its diversity strengths and weaknesses impact perceptions of fairness, justice, social problems, social change, and respect.

Effectiveness

Are the company’s efforts effective?

Explain how the company’s efforts, policies, and programs positively impact perceptions of fairness, justice, social problems, social change, and respect.

 When politics and medical science intersect, there can be much debate. Sometimes anecdotes or hearsay are misused as evidence to support a particular point. Despite these and other challenges, however, evidence-based approaches are increasingly used to inform health policy decision-making regarding causes of disease, intervention strategies, and issues impacting society. One example is the introduction of childhood vaccinations and the use of evidence-based arguments surrounding their safety.

In this Discussion, you will identify a recently proposed health policy and share your analysis of the evidence in support of this policy.

To Prepare:

• Review the Congress website provided in the Resources and identify one recent (within the past 5 years) proposed health policy.
• Review the health policy you identified and reflect on the background and development of this health policy.

Post a description of the health policy you selected and a brief background for the problem or issue being addressed. Which social determinant most affects this policy? Explain whether you believe there is an evidence base to support the proposed policy and explain why. Be specific and provide examples 

The past few modules have covered the common morality framework, which is a largely intuitive set of ideas that most people use without really knowing they are doing so. As we have explicated the framework, we have come to know that our society shares a great many of the same kinds of basic values, including that it is unacceptable to kill, cause pain, deprive people of freedom (self-determination) and pleasure, lie, and fail to do one’s duty. Those values are identified as the moral rules. These rules hold true for our society because we want other people to adhere to them and we figure that we had better do the same to keep other people in line.

As we have been discussing, applying the common morality’s rules, harms, and benefits is done using a two-step process: reviewing the facts of the case (Step 1 morally relevant features), and determining whether the potential moral rule violations are publicly allowed by rational, impartial people regardless of whether they would personally take the action or allow the moral rule violation (Step 2 questions). You have reviewed two cases in which the common morality has been applied.

As you have reviewed those cases, you have noted that the framework is applied when a moral rule violation is being considered. You have also noted that the person toward whom a social worker has a moral obligation is the person in the case toward whom the social worker is considering violating a moral rule. Determining who this person is, is key in solving ethical dilemmas. The person who is owed a moral obligation is the person who is most affected by the action that is being considered. For example, in the case of the Dubois family, the ethical dilemma is whether the social worker should support Mr. Dubois in taking Mrs. Dubois home or support the physicians’ stance that Mrs. Dubois should remain in a care facility. The person owed a moral obligation in this case is Mrs. Dubois because she is the one toward whom the social worker is considering violating moral rules.

One of the overarching themes of PSCI 2306 is the division of policy-making power among the various branches and levels of government. Another is the importance of representation and having a government that reflects the will of the people. This assignment requires you effectively demonstrate core competencies of critical thinking, communication, social responsibility, and personal responsibility within the context of civic engagement in the U.S. political process.

In this assignment, you will

1. Identify a current political issue that affects you and your community.
2. Educate yourself about the issue by reading at least three articles from reputable news sources about the issue.
3. Determine which policy-maker is in the best position to represent your interests with respect to that issue. That could be your representative in the U.S. House of Representatives, your representative in a state legislature, or some member of the executive branch. The key is that you identify a person who has some policy-making authority with respect to the issue you have chosen and a person who might listen to your position (for example, choosing your own representative to the U.S. House rather than some other representative).
4. Draft a letter to your legislative or executive-branch policymaker in which you
   1. identify yourself as one of the politician’s constituents;
   2. identify the political issue about which you are concerned;
   3. clearly state a position on that issue (what should the policymaker do or not do); and
   4. provide an explanation for your position that will persuade the policymaker to agree with you.

You will turn in

1. a .doc, .docx, or .pdf version of your letter; and
2. a .doc, .docx, or .pdf document listing the three articles you read

For tips on writing a letter to Congress, visit https://www.thoughtco.com/write-effective-letters-to-congress-3322301Links to an external site.

Your individual work should be typed, double-spaced, in 12-point font.  Your name and student ID number should be typed at the top of the page (in the right- or left-hand corner).