Week 8

Question 1

Politics

Answer 1

Anything that involves groups of persons making decisions or influencing decisions regarding allocation of resources

Question 2

Policy

Answer 2

Plans that guide the actions of government, institutions, corporations, or communities; often reflect the beliefs of the majority of those directly responsible for creating the policy

Question 3

Healthy Policy

Answer 3

Policies target towards health care goals within a society; outlines priorities and roles of different groups

Question 4

Healthy Public Policy

Answer 4

Improve and make changes to the living conditions that impact health, such as housing, education, nutrition, childcare, and transportation.

Question 5

Structuralism

Answer 5

acknowledges existence of a fixed real world with ideas that rest upon a bedrock of material relations - e.g. human, social, economic relations or a combo of the three; believed in universal truths that explained almost everything

Question 6

Post-structuralist

Answer 6

doubt existence of concrete reality; Ideas and our ideas about the world (reality) depend upon constructed discourse in society; The way we speak and communicate with each other and respond to that communication; Did argue that universal truth is unknowable - there is the existence of multiple truths; Meanings are forever shifting, not fixed or static