Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Health Policy, Social Theory, Decision Theory

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 3400A/B
• Professor: Dr. Denise Grafton

Document Summary

Ta assignments for personal communication (not class content) Please remember to use the forums for questions related to class content. Policy and health policy recap from last week. Ways and levels of examining and studying policy. Importance of philosophy in health care and health policy. To identify situations where policy may be implemented and how it can be enacted. To understand the importance of philosophy, epistemology and social theory in health care and health policy. To identify the characteristics of health that are cultural constructs. To identify and evaluate different methods of moral decision making. To be critical and thoughtful of what in uences our decision making. It is everywhere, it affects every aspect of our lives. It can be no decision - making no decision is a policy decision. While policy is framed with the best intentions, intent doesn"t always equal results.