The Impact of Public Administration Masters Degree to the issue of Social Inequality and Public Policy
Overview
The Public Administration or MPA degree is considered as a professional degree for those people who want a public service career in management. The said degree programs can help those people to develop their skills as well as different techniques that are used by the leaders as well as managers in order to implement different plans, ventures, and agendas that can help to determine important communal dilemma at the same time dealing with the different organizational, budgetary and human resource challenges. Those MPA graduates works in range of public service fields and in different levels of the government such as federal, state, local as well as regional. They can also work in different nonprofits organizations in the entire intercontinental field, in addition to the private sector (NASPAA, n.d.).
A Masters in Public Administration (MPA)
MPA is a degree that was designed in order to provide those people who are interested in leadership and management in different public service. It uses different techniques that will enable those people to examine the public and the non-profit sector of the general public. It uses different analyses of the entire management techniques together with the different leadership experiences that are used in order to plan and implement different public policy supervisory. The main focus of the said curriculum is to examine the profound nature of the public servants, the different instruments that the can use as well as their different roles in the entire public organization.
Public administration has its massive impact on the way of how the entire community, states as well as nation function, together with the way on how the resources can be collected and eventually, can be allocated. Proper management of public administration is a significant aspect that can help to meet the needs of the overall population of a given place or state. It can help to equip those interested people with different knowledge and skills that are compulsory or required in order to manage different resources and eventually address and emphasize on different economic and social problems in different locals, state and the nationwide government, in addition to the different nonprofit agencies (University of North Texas, 2006).
The degree of Masters in Pubic Administration or MPA has a great impact to the issue of the social inequality in terms of the access to the health care system of any place or country in the world. There has always been an issue of inequality in different part of the world that pertains to the needs of different people in proper access to health care system. There are many factors that can affect the issue of inequality in the field of the health care system: the financial factor that focuses on the income; the race or the ethnicity; the social status; as well as the gender. It has been found out that majority of those 43 million of Americans who are considered as medically underserved are poor, female, young as well as uninsured (Fort Cowles, 2003, p.115).
It has been also found out that there are many factors that can affect the limitation of the access to the health care system that can cause poor health status: low income; maldistribution of the different health care services; the nonappearance of a ethnically or competent service provider; as well as the unavailability of the different health insurance (as cited in Fort Cowles, 2003, p. 115).
MPA had helped the congress or the law maker to focus on the core aspect of the in inequality in terms of access of the Americans to the health care system. In general, the said degree can help those future public servants to focus on the different demands of different people, with different status, from different categories of life in order to meet their needs and improve their health condition. It also had helped the government and other non-governmental organizations or NGO to create their plans and developmental strategies in order to analyze the profound aspect of the overall dilemmas in terms of inequality in various health services. The said degree had also helped to pass all of the different laws that tackles or focuses on the need of the nation to social security.
Public Administration
Public Administration is a course that is designed in order to promote and encourage understanding of the different background and history of the public administration as a discipline. The said course can help to build up and expand profound understanding about different organizational theory in both the classical and contemporary approaches. It can also help to examine the different organizational designs as well as the overall setting or atmosphere of the political subsystems in which the managers or the leaders function.
Public administration has become one of the most effective instruments of revolution, improvement as well as powerful agency that affect the national integration. It also has become the mechanism for formulating different plans and agendas and the process of using those for improvement (Chand, n.d., p. 3). It can also be defined as the process of managing the different practices that are applied by all kinds of organizations from the household to the most complex or composite system of the government (Chand, n.d., p. 5).
The class public administration supports the process of knowing the different needs and conditions of different categories of citizen of the USA in terms of their access to the medical services of the country. Public administration is important because it focuses on how the government will be able to give funds and provisions for the public health care services, therefore, it can help to plan on how the public health will be delivered (Lin, Fawkes and Smith, 2007, p. 379). It can also help to target those groups who are in great need of the different medical services.
Planning and Evaluation
Planning and evaluation is a course that can help to introduce different fundamental techniques that can be used in inquiring that can be utilized in order to plan and evaluate different organization. It can also be helpful in the process of knowing the different policy problems together with the process of evaluating different solutions.
The class planning and evaluation can help to analyze the different factors that can cause the inequality in access to the medical services. It can help to investigate the different factors that have been found out in the class of the public administration and how those factors can affect the overall performance of the health care system of the country.
Planning and evaluation course had helped to know the profound reasons or factors that have been considered as hindrances in implementing different rules and policies of the medical or health care services. It also helped the government, more specifically those departments and organizations that focuses on different aspects of public health to focus on the different aspects that can affect the different services that are offered to those lower categories of the social status like the cost of the hospital services, social security, medical technologies and tools as well as the medical service itself.
The said class had a great impact on how were those different laws and regulation about the rights of the poor people, old people as well as female people to avail equal medical or health services.
Administrative Law and Processes
The class of the administrative law and processes focuses on the different laws and policies that have been proposed and passed with accordance to the different issues of inequality in terms of the access to the health care services. It can also help to develop the current structures or systems of a given administrative law and the process within by analyzing the current need of those people or categories, which have been grouped in the class of public administration, by focusing on the different needs of those categories, which have been distinguish in the planning and evaluation plan.
The development process of the different administrative law and its processes can be done by applying the current condition or needs of the people from the lower categories. It has a great impact to the inequality of medical services because it had helped those policy maker or law maker to create or plan their proposed laws and regulation to focus on the needs of the people for a law or decree that will help them to get the enough or appropriate medical attention that they need.
Budgetary Theory and Analysis
Budget is the most important part of any project or program. The quality and the quantity of the result of the program will be based greatly from the allocated budget that has been given by the government or the organization that is behind a given project or program. The class of budgetary theory and analysis supports the different activities of the health services in term of financial aspect. It had helped the public leaders and managers to plan and establish the financial needs of different projects that have been done in order to cater to the equal needs as well as rights of the citizens to the medical or health services.
Enough or appropriate budget (not over nor under), has played an important role in preventing different dilemmas in implementing laws, programs and plans in lessening and even preventing inequality in accessing different medical or health care services and systems. The proper process of planning the budget of a certain program or law can help different public managers or leaders to establish, implement as well as maintain the successful result of the said project or program.
Public Personnel Management
The class of Public personnel management focuses on the issue of the human resource in the different organizations and public establishments that handle the different medical needs of the public. This is important because it is considered as the process of handling the human capital or human resource that perform the different activities or tasks with accordance to the different program or project that caters to the needs of those poor people and those who belongs to the lower categories.
It had also affect the issue of inequality in medical services because, if those personnel from different hospital and public medical establishment are not properly managed in terms of instructions, rules and regulations, administrative laws as well as compensations and appraisal, it can affect their service or their approach towards those people who belongs to the lower categories in terms of social status and the likes. Those people or worker that works for the public hospitals and medical agencies are considered as the key factor that can improve the implementation of different programs and projects in lessening the inequality in accessing different medical services.
Public Policy and Administration
The class of the public policy and administration focuses on how the administration or the different political issues is connected with the formation of the different public policies. It is also connected to all of the first said classes. It had affected the inequality in access to the medical services because it mainly focus on the evolution or the connection of the different political issues that have affected the making and passing of different laws with regards to the said issue.
The said condition can be found or observed during the 1917 when the American Medical Association or AMA had endorsed the law with regards to the National Law Insurance. The problem is that, the political condition of the USA was not matched to the said law or policy.
It can also be seen during the 1971, when neither of the plans or policies that has been proposed was approved. The said incident happened because of the fact that there have been many economic and political issues that are going on in the said countries, together with the interest of those involved organizations and groups.
Different political issues, economic problems and different organization’s interest are the most important factors that have served as hindrances for the implementation and completion of the social security system that will protect the medical conditions of those people who belong to the lower social status.
Bibliography:
Chand, S. Public Administration. Chandler Publishing Inc.
Fort Cowles, L. (2003). Social Work in the Health Field: A Care Perspective. (2nd ed.). Haworth Press
Lin, V., Fawkes, S. and Smith, J. (2007). Public Health Practice in Australia: The Organized Effort. Allen & Unwin
Public Administration (2006, March 06). University of North Texas, Retrieved February 4, 2008, from http://www.unt.edu/pais/grad/gccs.htm
What is an MPA degree? NASPAA, National Association of Public Affairs and Administration. Retrieved February 4, 2008, from http://www.naspaa.org/student s/faq/fa q.asp
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