Analyze the effects of legal and regulatory processes on health care policy advocacy.

These processes can have an important impact on advocacy for health policy. These processes are used to establish standards for practice, determine funding levels, as well as set guidelines that health care professionals have to follow. They can therefore be powerful tools for advocates to influence the direction of health policies according to their needs and interests.

A patient advocate might use the current law to change reimbursement rates of certain medications or treatments, which would directly affect costs. Legal challenges to existing laws that govern issues such as access to reproductive health services may also help develop more equitable policies.

It is also important that advocates understand how the different rules will affect each other and which effects they could potentially have. This dynamic process allows advocates to make more informed decisions regarding which policies they should pursue and alter, in order for them to gain support from legislators as well as members of the general public.