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

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

Document Summary

Understand the importance and relevance of health policy. Be able to explain the common concepts. 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. Equity: the quality of being fair or impartial, absence or avoidance of remedial differences between groups of people whether they are defined socially, economically or geographically. Intersectionality: overlapping/intersectional social identities in related system of oppression, discrimination, racism does(cid:374)"t e(cid:454)ist o(cid:374) its o(cid:449)(cid:374), (cid:271)ut i(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:374)ju(cid:374)(cid:272)tio(cid:374) (cid:449)ith se(cid:454)is(cid:373), et(cid:272). It is part of the social contract of living in a society, you need to give up in order to gain. Coercion: opposite of autonomy forceful action or persuasion that are meant to influence a specific response. Proportionality: balance between the impact of the policy and the desired effect of the policy. Because it impacts just about every aspect of society: transportation, taxes, drugs, etc.