Health Sciences 3400A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Health Care In Canada, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Health Policy

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 3400A/B
• Professor: Shannon Sibbald

Document Summary

Lecture 1 + chapter 1 the health policy framework. Different definitions: i. e. , it is not exclusively government. The study of power (a lot of policy making made by those in power) What is policy: power = who makes the decisions, process = how the decisions are made. Policies are guides to a range of actions in a given field. Policy = decisions taken by those with responsibility for a given policy area (in health, environment, education or trade) Private multinational conglomerates may establish policies for all their. Healthy can describe all of these b/c we want all policies to be healthy. Health noun/title, but healthy is an adjective/descriptor. Health policy = covers public (government) or private sectors about health: embraces courses of action & inaction that affect the set of institutions, organizations, services and funding arrangements of the health and health care system. Simplified representation of a complex set of inter-relationships.