Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Socioeconomic Status, Racialization, Class Discrimination

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 3400A/B
• Professor: Kathleen Gamble

Document Summary

Public policy: concerned with what governments do, why they do it, what differences it makes. It is about political/social sciences and the ability of this discipline to describe, analyze, and explain public policy. Policy is a discourse, which means, it is a formal, lengthy discussion of a subject, either written or spoken. Encourages scholars and students to think critically and systematically about policy issues. Health policy is perhaps best thought of as the actions of government or other significant stakeholders, which are aimed at maintaining and improving the population"s state of health. According to cha 1984: what we say about health is just as important as how we say it. Canada"s healthcare system: derived through publicly funded healthcare system, the primary objective of the act is. To protect, promote and restore the physical and mental well- being of residents of canada and to facilitate reasonable access to health services without financial or other barrier.