HLST 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Canadian Economics Association, Nayak (Title)
13 Dec 2014
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Summary: chapter 9 politics, public policy, and health inequalities. This chapter have discussed the contentious topic of general shaping of public policy base on the issues surrounding health inequalities and political economy perspective. The governments" public policy are decisions that influences the quality of the social determinants of health( living conditions, educations, housing, employment, and food), it is decisions made by the governments that address problems quickly and finding best appropriate solution. The aspects of the politics, social, and economics forces influence the establishment of public policy in. One of the indicators of the general shaping of public policy is the extent to which nations distribute resources among the population, poverty rate, and welfare states. The chapter also have talked about the applications to specific canadian public policy domains, for example, housing (homeless shelters), early childhood education and care, social assistance, labour policy, and etc.
