HLTC02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Evidence-Based Medicine, Economic Evaluation, Electronic Body Music
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2 important issues are currently at the forefront of canadian health policy; fiscal consideration and gender inequalities in health, particularly those affecting women. In evolving fiscal culture in which cost containment and reduced public health expenditures are prevalent. As result evidence based medicine (ebm) and evidence based policy making (ebp), which claim to reduce waste are seen as essential to the health sector. Our goal is not to reject economic evaluations but instead to explore how they can be strengthened. Evidence based medicine (ebm) is premised on the idea that scientific medical knowledge exists in some way uncontaminated by social life and it can be applied unproblematically to the human being. Its perceived benefits are improved treatment, greater openness in clinical decision making and better informed patients regarding the potential benefits and harms of different treatments. Feminists have observed that emotion and intuition have little legitimate place in ebm ((armstrong 2001)
