Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Liberal Democracy, Francis Fukuyama, Satisficing

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

Document Summary

Policy making is characterized by conflicts that arise when change is pursued which threatens the status quo. Understanding health policy making requires understanding of the nature of power. Geographic and socio-demographic contexts we are a large country compared to others we have a large urban area a lot of our population is dispersed makes it hard to spread out health care needs. Large land mass: population clustered in urban centers (80% of the population, aging population (14% 65+ years, first nations - those contexts shape govnt both federal and provincial. Ranked among the richest nations of the world we have relatively strong economy. Some issues with income inequity better than some countries/worse than others. We spend half of what us does. 42-46% of provincial budgets spent on health care means other sectors don"t get as much. Canada is a federation governed by several levels of government means different levels of authorities.