Nursing 3310A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Independent Lens, Incrementalism, Resource Mobilization
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Humans as tribal beings: russia/chechnya, czechs and slovaks, canada/quebec, china/tibet, 2 factors: conflict and disease, conflict: impact of conflict on human health ex. Syria **biggest negative impact on health: disease: hiv/aids not really communicable diseases but they create developmental setbacks. Diabetes (we think of it as a condition of the wealthy, too much sugar). Diabetes impacts newly developed nations more than it does us. With our migration of our western culture, there has been an explosion of the subsequent health impacts of our western culture. What is policy: numerous definitions policy, public policy, health policy , policy is ultimately a plan to deal with a problem. We don"t just create policy"s because, we create them to solve or enhance something: ex. It includes policy made by the public sector (government) as well as policies in the private sector. The way we structure our system is structured by policy: policies can occur in private sector as well ex.