HSA 3150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Logic Model, Primum Non Nocere, Health Policy
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Chapter 10- building policy competence for health professionals. The ethics of influencing policymaking: ethical considerations contribute to the policy window, policymaking should be guided by: Individuals have the right to their own beliefs and values and to self-determination: paternalism: someone else determines what is best for people. Justice: distributive justice: what is fair, egalitarian perspective: everyone should have access to health benefits, utilitarian perspective: greatest good for the greatest number. Libertarian perspective: maximum of social and economic liberty for individuals. Beneficence and nonmaleficience: beneficence: policymaking participants seek to do good. Shown in medicaid, medicare: nonmaleficence: policymaking participants seek to do no harm. Primum non nocere: (cid:862)first, do (cid:374)o har(cid:373)(cid:863) Influencing policymaking: requires sufficient knowledge of the context and process to observe what goes on, practice of influence: gaining and using information to guide influencing activities, five steps: observe, assess, monitor, forecast, influence. Cannot foretell or correctly interpret the future. Analyzing public policy info and potential window components.
