week 5: what is public policy

Question 1

Policy

Answer 1

policy is a rule to guide decisions and actions. policies can be guidelines, rules, regulations, laws, principles or directions.

Question 2

public policy

Answer 2

decisions made by the government to address problems. it is whatever governments choose to do or not to do.

Question 3

healthy public policy

Answer 3

healthy public policy is something that can help promote positive effects on the health of Canadians through new policies or policy change. It refers to public policies, typically outside the formal healthcare sector, which have an impact on individual or population health.

Question 4

who is involved in healthy public policy?

Answer 4

All three levels of government
- federal
- provincial
- municipal/local
- others: the public, communities or neighbourhoods, health professionals,

Question 5

Significance for nurses (nursing implications)

Answer 5

• healthcare is inherently political
• issues eventually impact quality of care
• policy is one approach to make changes

Question 6

Hegemony

Answer 6

Control or domination by one person or organization. The social, cultural, ideological, or economic influence exerted by a dominant group.

Question 7

Counter hegemony

Answer 7

Counter awareness of existing power relations that maintain the status quo and the actions of challenging and changing the existing structures to achieve a new reality.