User talk:Antoinette011

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Antoinette011, good luck, and have fun. – VIRGIN INFATUATION (talk) 13:55, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

Civic engagement state level
Civic Engagement on the State Level Civic engagement has an interrelated relationship within the various entities of the state. Through the values, knowledge, liberties, skills, ideas, attitudes and beliefs the population holds, civic engagement cultivates and shapes the state to be a representation of vast cultural, social, and economic identities. Civic Engagement applied within the state is not possible without local civic engagement. As in a democratic society, citizens are the source to give life to a representative democracy. Application of this principle can be found within programs and laws that states have implemented based in a variety of areas concerns for that particular state. Health, education, equality, immigration are a few examples of entities that civic engagement can shape within a state. Application in Health: States implement public health programs to better benefit the needs of the society. The State Child Health Insurance Program, for example, (SCHIP) is the largest public investment in child health care aiding over 11 million uninsured children. “This statewide health insurance program for low-income children was associated with improved access, utilization, and quality of care, suggesting that SCHIP has the potential to improve health care for low-income American children.”( http://www.pediatricsdigest.mobi/content/105/2/363.short) States take part in the program and sculpt it to better fit the needs of that state’s demographics, making their healthcare and the civic engagement process of individuals that take part in the program as well help reform and fix it apart of the state’s identity. In comparison to other countries, states practicing public involvement and implementing public health programs to better benefit the needs of the society is a concept that is also shared by other countries A study conducted by Department of Primary Care, University of Liverpool, the Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol,  the Department of Geography and Geology, McMaster Institute of Environment and Health, McMaster University, Avon Health Authority, the School of Journalism, Tom Hopkinson Centre for Media Research, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University, and the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis, McMaster University stated that “There are a number of impulses towards public participation in health care decision making including instrumentalist, communitarian, educative and expressive impulses and the desire for increased accountability” (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953601001514) Their research included critical examination of the degree of involvement by the public in healthcare decision making. It is suggested that “public participation in decision making can promote goals, bind individuals or groups together, impart a sense of competence and responsibility and help express political or civic identity”( http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953601001514) The action of the citizens aimed at influencing decision of representatives ultimately affects the state as a whole