Week 2 Flashcards
Who is tommy douglas
-created the idea of universal and single payer health care in Canada
Models of policy
-consensus
-conflict
Consensus model of policy
-assumptions from natural and physical sciences
-can conduct actual experiments
-rational consideration of alternatives
Conflict model of policy
-recognition of the role of ideologies and values
-groups have differential access to power
-emotional investment in policy
Concepts of society
-market model
-polis model
Market model of society
-neoliberalism
-self interest
-competition
-material exchange
-‘we think of ourselves as individuals’
Polis model of society
-social democracy
-public interest
-groups and organizations
-‘we think of ourselves as a community’
Ways of thinking about health
-medical
-behavioural/lifestyle
-socio-environmental
-structural/critical
Health as medically determined
-health influenced by physiological processes, biomedical markers etc
-most dominant in Canada
-medical intervention
Health as behaviour/lifestyle determined
-focus on behavioural risk factors
-aim is to change behaviours
Health as socio-environmentally determined
-living and working conditions that can bring about health
-materialism
-focus on community and social factors like poverty or living and working conditions
Health as structurally determined
-why is poverty caused and how can structural changes fix it
-rejects individualism
-aim is to address inequalities
What are knowledge paradigms
-set of beliefs/assumptions about knowledge
Ontology
-what can be known
Epistemology
-what evidence is counted and not counted
Methodology
-what tools are used to generate knowledge
-scientific method, randomized control trials etc
Social theories
-positivism
-interpretivism
-critical theory
Positivism
-there are universal laws that can be applicable in real world settings
-positive affirmation of theories through the scientific method
-collection and analysis of quantitative data
Post-positivism
-agree that researchers can uncovers things
-but also that researchers can bring a bias to their own research in the way they ask questions etc
Interpretivism
-the way you interpret people influenced your data/results
-qualitative research
-not considered as important academically
Critical theory
-explicitly thinking about how power/structure affects peoples health directly
-focus on social, political, and economic context
