Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Policy Analysis, Health Policy, Population Health

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

Document Summary

Trimming the fat: rising levels of obesity have led to increasing concern that the next generation will be less healthy than their parents. Stats: 1978 23% of children aged 2-17 were overweight or obese, 2004 35% of children aged 2-17 were overweight or obese, 2017 30% of children aged 5-17 were overweight or obese. How a policy is evaluated: demonstrates how the same set of facts can be used to present different messages, how to best influence an outcome, helps determine what stakeholders can participate. Health policy lecture 4 notes making healthy populations (trimming the fat: this, in turn, relates to household income and household spending, the economic conditions. Inter-related conditions and factors that influence the health of populations across the life-course. Is a branch of the social issues concerned with human population, its structure and change, and its relationship with the environment and social and economic change.