Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Population Health, Food Desert, The Chances
21 Oct 2020
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Rising levels of obesity have led to increasing concern that the next generation will be less healthy than their parents. The implications for health status, and health expenditures, have led to calls for remedial action. If you have to email your ta, include what class and tutorial group you are in. Making policy choices to tackle complex problems - considerations. To summarize key features of the obesity problem. To identify ways in which obesity and similar health problems can be framed. To understand the relationships between demography and population health. To summarize the ways in which the built environment affects health and how this can be included in health policy. To differentiate between food swamps and food deserts. To de ne opportunity costs, trade offs, and qalys. To differentiate different types of policy instruments and identify situations in which they could be used. Using a policy analysis triangle is a good way of understanding any case you"re looking at.
