HLTA02H3 Chapter 8: Chapter 8
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Chapter 8: politics, public policy, and population health by toba bryant. Public policy is a course of action or inaction chosen by public authorities to address a given problem or interrelated set of problems. Policy is a course of action that is anchored in a set of values regarding appropriate public goals and a set of beliefs about the best way of achieving these goals. Us spends more than canada, us pension called social security: health: public spending on health services for population. Uk also has separate for-profit health system: income support: family benefits, wage subsidies, child support. Poverty rates as i ndicator of progressive public policy: an indicator to how a nation approaches public policy is the extent to which the nation is committed to reducing the incidence of poverty. In canada we have less poverty than the us and the uk, but our rates are high compared to.
