Week 2

Question 1

Who is tommy douglas

Answer 1

-created the idea of universal and single payer health care in Canada

Question 2

Models of policy

Answer 2

-consensus
-conflict

Question 3

Consensus model of policy

Answer 3

-assumptions from natural and physical sciences
-can conduct actual experiments
-rational consideration of alternatives

Question 4

Conflict model of policy

Answer 4

-recognition of the role of ideologies and values
-groups have differential access to power
-emotional investment in policy

Question 5

Concepts of society

Answer 5

-market model
-polis model

Question 6

Market model of society

Answer 6

-neoliberalism
-self interest
-competition
-material exchange
-‘we think of ourselves as individuals’

Question 7

Polis model of society

Answer 7

-social democracy
-public interest
-groups and organizations
-‘we think of ourselves as a community’

Question 8

Ways of thinking about health

Answer 8

-medical
-behavioural/lifestyle
-socio-environmental
-structural/critical

Question 9

Health as medically determined

Answer 9

-health influenced by physiological processes, biomedical markers etc
-most dominant in Canada
-medical intervention

Question 10

Health as behaviour/lifestyle determined

Answer 10

-focus on behavioural risk factors
-aim is to change behaviours

Question 11

Health as socio-environmentally determined

Answer 11

-living and working conditions that can bring about health
-materialism
-focus on community and social factors like poverty or living and working conditions

Question 12

Health as structurally determined

Answer 12

-why is poverty caused and how can structural changes fix it
-rejects individualism
-aim is to address inequalities

Question 13

What are knowledge paradigms

Answer 13

-set of beliefs/assumptions about knowledge

Question 14

Ontology

Answer 14

-what can be known

Question 15

Epistemology

Answer 15

-what evidence is counted and not counted

Question 16

Methodology

Answer 16

-what tools are used to generate knowledge
-scientific method, randomized control trials etc

Question 17

Social theories

Answer 17

-positivism
-interpretivism
-critical theory

Question 18

Positivism

Answer 18

-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

Question 19

Post-positivism

Answer 19

-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

Question 20

Interpretivism

Answer 20

-the way you interpret people influenced your data/results
-qualitative research
-not considered as important academically

Question 21

Critical theory

Answer 21

-explicitly thinking about how power/structure affects peoples health directly
-focus on social, political, and economic context