Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Justin Trudeau, Naloxone, Dietary Fiber
19 Nov 2018
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Course ombudspersons: parth mistry (pmistry6@uwo. ca, ana tasic (atasic@uwo. ca, daniel wilson (dwilson@uwo. ca) What is policy: broad statement of goals, objectives and means that create the framework for activity. What is public policy: a course of action or inaction chosen by public authorities (government representatives) to address a given problem. bryant, 2016, p. 1. What is health policy: courses of action (and inaction) that affect the set of institutions, organizations, services, and funding arrangements of the health and health care system. base et al. It restricted how scientists could engage with journalists, saying that they had to go through the government"s communication office to vet these messages being sent out by scientists (a policy which has since been rescinded by the current government. ) Policy vs. law: laws enact public policy, but they are closely related, eg. policy: trudeau"s government had a policy that would legalize cannabis, law: the rule that enacted the policy.
