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Running head: SOCIAL VISIBILITY OF HEALTH ISSUE 1NR 554 Week 4 DQ 2 Social Visibility of Health Issue.
Social Visibility of Health Issue
Carole N. Bingley
Chamberlain College of Nursing
NR554: Nurse Leader and Healthcare Policy
March 2018
, SOCIAL VISIBILITY OF HEALTH ISSUE 2
Discuss how social visibility and financial cost impact healthcare policy
Social Visibility of Health Issue
Mental health disorders have gained a lot of visibility in the news with the recent mass
shooting. Mass shootings create outpourings of public horror and outrage. With each tragedy, we
hear arguments about gun violence and mental health. On December 14, 2012, 26 people were
shot and killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Investigators
reported the assailant, a 20-year-old male, had a history of psychiatric disorders like anxiety and
obsessive-compulsive disorder that was untreated (Cowan, 2014). It was also reported the killer
was suffering from undiagnosed anorexia that may have affected his mental state. Following this
shooting, President Barack Obama signed an executive order on gun control December 2016.
The executive order restricted gun ownership for Social Security beneficiaries with psychiatric
disabilities, who used a “representative payee” to deal with their finances (The White House,
2016). The assumption behind the regulation was that if someone was too mentally ill to handle
their disability payments, then they shouldn’t be eligible to buy guns. However, on February 28,
2017, President Trump signed a bill passed by Congress, House Joint Resolution 40, that
rescinded the order stating, “it could endanger the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding
citizens” (GovTrack, n.d.).
That same year in October a gunman in Las Vegas, Nevada unleashed a shower of bullets
on an outdoor country music festival, killing at least 59 people and injuring 527 (At least 59
dead, 527 injured in a mass shooting on Las Vegas Strip, 2017). This was the deadliest mass
shooting in U.S. history. The 64-year-old male was believed to be suffering from the untreated
bipolar disorder. It was also reported the gunman was taking Diazepam for anxiety. The
following month of November, 26 people were killed at First Baptist Church in rural Sutherland
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