Health Sciences 3400A/B Study Guide - Emmett Matthew Hall, Ontario Health Insurance Plan, Health Policy

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 3400A/B
• Professor: Sharon Regan

Document Summary

Health policy is assumed to embrace courses of action (or inaction) that affect the set of institutions, organizations, service, and funding arrangements of the health and health care system. It includes policy made by the public sector (government) as well as policies in the private sector. But because health is influenced by many determinants outside the health system, we are also interested in the actions and intended actions of organizations external to the health system that impact on health (p. 6-7) Individuals, groups and organizations that participate in the policy process (government, interest. Situational factors conditions or events that may influence policy. Structural factors relatively unchanging elements of the society such as the political system, type of economy, and employment base. Cultural factors include values/beliefs, ethnic, language, religious influences. The process of shaping policy initiatives, from agenda setting to implementation and evaluation. Institutions rules, authority and values of an organization and the ways in which it makes decisions or acts.