Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Disease Surveillance, Health Policy, Unintended Consequences
14 Dec 2017
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Understand where issues come from, and how risks are characterized and analyzed. Understand the content-related and process-related tasks involved in identifying issues. Be able to list the different types of interventions. Be able to explain how to assess and chose an intervention. Specifically looking at where health policy issues come from. Health policy is usually in response or anticipation of a specific risk or hazard. Hazard: something that can cause harm o. Risk: the chance (high or low) that any hazard will cause harm: quantifying the risk associated. Steps are necessary to fully understand the issue, without understanding these factors it would be difficult to develop an effective policy. Characterize the o: risk - degree or magnitude of harm that could be caused, more population based. When talking about obesity, there is no one underlying agent. Important to identify these and not just ignore them.
