POL 536 Lecture 1: Class 1
23 Jan 2018
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If the private sector wants to do it, then the politics changes. What is health policy: health policy influences a variety of activities, public health: sanitation, disease control, infant mortality, nutrition, occupational health, environmental health, health care: access, service delivery, standards for practice & treatment. Immunizations seatbelts, decrease drunk driving: workplace safety: cut by 50%, coal miners wear masks, building codes, control of infectious diseases, declines in deaths from heart disease and stroke. Safer and healthier foods: since 1900 infant mortality has decreased by 90%, delivering babies in hospitals & clinics, maternal mortality decreased by 99: healthier mothers and babies. Identifying tobacco as a health hazard: reducing the number of young people who start smoking. Evolution of health care policy in america: four eras. Leading cause of death infectious disease: europeans were further along than us, average life expectancy 46 years. Era ii: growing & implementing new standards: 1910s-1960s.
