You will prepare and submit a term paper on Impact of Policy on Primary Healthcare in Ireland. Your paper should be a minimum of 1750 words in length.

You will prepare and submit a term paper on Impact of Policy on Primary Healthcare in Ireland. Your paper should be a minimum of 1750 words in length. Let us assess the impact of policy on the delivery of primary healthcare.

2000 to 2005. In Ireland’s health strategy for 2000 to 2005, the strategy articulated is that the strategic aims and objectives of the 2000 to 2005 health strategy has been guided by the five principles of the Ottawa Charter (Department of Health and Children 2000, p. 38). The Ottawa Charter refers to the agreements achieved in 1986 during the World Health Organization’s first international conference on health promotion held in Ottawa, Canada. The Ottawa Charter called for action on five areas: building healthy public policy, reorienting health services, creating supportive environments, strengthening community action, and developing personal skills (Department of Health and Children 2000, p. 11). In implementing the principles of the Ottawa charter, Ireland’s Department of Health and Children defined that the priority aims of the 2000-2005 health strategy (2000, p. 11) cover the empowerment of communities to take control and improve their health collectively.

2005-2007. In the health strategy for 2005-2007, the priority mission articulated was to enhance health and well-being through the placement of health as the center of government policy and the promotion of a “whole of government” approach to health (Department of Health and Children 2005, p. 7). It is not clear why the strategy for 2005-2007 involved a fewer number of years compared to the strategy document for the period 2000-2005. Further, it is also not clear why the mission statement seems too general and too broad such that the articulated statement of mission for the specific period is valid for all times, thereby useless in guiding the direction of the work of health service professionals for the specific period. The 2005-2007 health strategy defined that the key health priorities were those related to the organizational and systems streamlining of government units.