Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Intersectionality, Outsourcing

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 3400A/B
• Professor: Melanie Mc Phail

Document Summary

Lecture 1 - introduction to the policy process. Understand the importance and relevance of health policy. Understand the impact contextual factors have on policy. Be able to list the stages of the policy process. Understand the role of and uses for policy briefs. Plan of action, course or method of action that has been deliberately chosen: a set of interrelated decisions, concerning a selection of goals and means of achieving them. Public policy: policy that has been made by the state or the government: also have multinational, international, federal, provincial and municipal policies - wide range. Health policy: course of action or inaction that affect the healthcare system or the health of the population: non-health policies do impact the health of the population o. Equity: the quality of being fair or impartial o. The absence of differences amoung groups of people whether the groups are divided socially, economically, demographically or geographically.