Week 1: What is health policy? Flashcards
Policy Buse definition
-“Broad statement of goals, objectives and means that create the framework for activity. Often takes the form of explicit written documents, but may also be implicit or unwritten.”
-decisions taken by those with responsibility for a given policy area
What are policies statements of?
What we think is important
True or False: policies can be explicit, implicit, written, unwritten
True
What is public policy?
“…a course of action or inaction chosen by public authorities to address a given problem…” - Bryant, 2016, pg. 1
“…anything a government chooses to do or not to do.” - Dye, 1972, pg. 2
Course of action or course of inaction (example marijuanna legilization)
Health policy
“…courses of action (and inaction) that affect the set of institutions, organizations, services and funding arrangements of the health and health care system.” - Buse et al., 2012, pg. 6
The statements that apply to health institutions, different clinics, funding
- Policies that have to do with health
- Policies created by health agencies/ organizations
True or False: health policies are only public
False can be pub or priv
Healthy public policy
Public policies outside of the health sector “characterized by an explicit concern for health and equity in all areas of policy and by an accountability for health impact.” - World Health Organization, 1988
Example of healthy public policy
Examoke Municipal alcohol policy
What is a Broad statement of goals, objectives and means that create the framework for activity.
Policy
What is Activity that organizes or delivers a service or goods to a achieve a policy’s objective
Program
What is Ontario Naloxone Program for Pharmacies (free naloxone kits)
Program
What reduces # of overdoses and deaths caused by opioids
A policy
Politics
“the art or science concerned with guiding or influencing governmental policy”
“…understanding the politics of the policy process is arguably as important as understanding how medicine improves health.”
