Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Canada Health Transfer, Market Saturation, Constitution Act, 1867
17 Dec 2016
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Policymakers: researchers and professionals who frame the issue, pose the questions, or define the policy problem and solution. Accountability: entails the procedures and processes by which one party justifies and takes responsibility for its activities. Governance: responsibility is defined within an organization, and that those responsible persons then define the outcomes that are required, measure them, report them and are judged accordingly. Competing interests of different stakeholders have a significant impact on new health policies. Cuts to refugee health funds: remember our discussions about intersectionality and health equity. How this is a case study an example of why we need to think about how categories of identities (i. e. race) impact decisions about health and the delivery of health care services. As well, remember our discussion about aboriginal health and again, think about how race, or racialization impacts health policy in canada. Health policy is never neutral: policy makers have particular views and beliefs that influence the policy they develop.
