HE ED221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: American Beverage Association, National Restaurant Association, Michael Bloomberg
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This lecture focuses on understanding the advantages and disadvantages of policy change, and describing the examples of policy change regarding health behaviours. Politics can be loosely defined as the process of making and executing collective decisions, and are structured by states and their legislative and executive agencies (parliaments, governments, ministries, etc. The process of politics involves elections, lobbying, and law-making, and results in laws, taxes, social security benefits, etc. (outputs). There are certain advantages and disadvantages of policy change within the context of health behaviours: advantages, disadvantages. Tobacco control in canada is one leading example of how politics can influence the health of a population. Cigarette packaging is also legally required to have health warning displayed on the packaging. Evidence for smoke free policies is obvious as there has been less exposure to second hand smoke by 80-90% in high exposure settings, and 40% in general.