Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Health Canada, Ontario Health Insurance Plan, Tokenism
10 Apr 2018
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Formal engagement: longer period of time, more active involvement, open-ended, resource intensive, mutual two-way learning. Participation tokenism - we are involving you to say we involved you but wont put anything you say into place or listen. Interest groups: voluntary organizations working towards a desired goal but with no attempt to be part of the formal government administration advocacy groups - working towards a goal but are outside of formal government. Interest groups can be biased, self-interested, badly informed, etc Later 1980"s: successfully fought for government funding for treatment and price reductions; successfully challenged institutional research models. 1990"s: groups shrink from success, activists are accepted and working in health policy; increased awareness of hiv/aids globally. Late 90"s early 00"s: new advocacy sparked by attempts to prevent low cost generic treatment drugs. 2000"s: advocacy continues, but transforms more into service delivery, ghting for universal access to prevention, treatment, and care.
