Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture Notes - Deb Matthews, Deinstitutionalisation, Consistency

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 3400A/B
• Professor: Sharon Regan

Document Summary

Draw on course content, at least two posts, posts 24 hours apart. Numerous definitions policy, public policy, health policy. Public policy: a course of action or inaction chosen by public authorities (government) to address a given problem or interrelated set of problems. An explicit health policy can achieve several things: it defines a vision for the future which in turn helps to establish targets . Resource allocation (financial, and people!: have to be willing to do this. Situational factors: conditions or events that may influence policy i. e. sars had transformative effect on health policy. Structural factors: relatively unchanging elements of the society such as the political system, type of economy, and employment base. The process of shaping policy initiatives, from agenda setting to implementation and evaluation. Institutions (i. e. government; parties, structure, rules): rules, authority and values of an organization and the ways in which it makes decisions or acts.