HLTH 305 MIDTERM EXAM
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Policy - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Plans and procedures developed
and implemented by governments, agencies, organizations, and
associations to achieve desired goals
Public Policy - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Course of action or
inaction chosen by public authorities to address a given problem or
interrelated set of problems that is anchored in a set of beliefs about the
best way to achieve the goals
Define Health Policy - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ - Health Policy is
subset of public policy about who has power and who does not have
power to influence health policy and health policy outcomes
- It encompasses both health care and other health-related public policies
- It is concerned with a range of issues that affect health and well-being
in addition to its obvious concern with health care organization and
provision
What do we mean by the "polis" in health Policy? - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ - The polis is a model of political society whose
primary objective is to act in the interests or welfare of the collective
- The focus of the polis is community well-being rather than the
individual
,- Motivations are public interest and self-interest
- Chief conflict is self-interest vs. public interest
- Nature of collective activity is cooperation and competition
- Building blocks of social action is groups and organizations
What do we mean by the "market" in health Policy? - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ - The market is a a social system in which individuals
engage in various activities, usually economic, to enhance their welfare
- Individuals engage in activities for the sole purpose of maximizing
self-interest
- Motivation is self-interest
- Chief conflict is self-interest vs. self-interest
- Nature of collective activity is competition
- Building blocks of social action is individuals
Define Ideology - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ - A system of ideas
about what are the key issues and what should be done about them
- A system of ideas about how problems should be addressed
- Influence the issues on which governments decide to take action
What is Neoliberalism? - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ - The belief that
the marketplace should be the arbiter of the creation and distribution of
various resources
- A political ideology that favours the market as the vehicle for fostering
economic growth and innovation
,What is the Socio-environmental Way of Thinking About Health? -
ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ - Concerned with risk conditions such as
poverty or low income rather than individual risk factors such as
cholesterol or blood pressure
- Health is defined as a positive concept in terms of connectedness to
family, friends, and one's community
- Directs attention to community and societal factors that support health
Define Epistemology - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ - Refers to how the
inquirer creates knowledge about health or other phenomena through
research and experience
- A key aspect of the knowledge creation process that shapes how
knowledge is believed to be acquired and understood
What is Post-Positivism? - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ - A rejection of
key tenets of positivism that also shares a number of features
- Considers reality that is external and can be studied and where
knowledge is objective but considers that human measurement and
instruments are inherently faulty
- While it stresses empirical evidence to support hypothesis, it says that
objectivity is an ideal rather than imperative of research
How do Behaviouralists View Health? - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ -
Provides an individualized concept of health
- Health is defined primarily in terms of individual energy, functional
ability, and disease-preventing lifestyles
, - Primary health problems are behavioural risk factors
Define meso-level policy and provide an example - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ - Policies that focus on the influence of "middle-level"
institutions upon public policy
- E.g., Creating a telehealth line
How Do Pluralism and New Institutionalism Relate to Each Other? -
ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ - Both are theories of public policy which
seek to understand the definition, development, and implementation of
health policy
- New institutionalism has some pluralist features but adds an interest in
how institutions structure the nature of politics and political debate and
the policy change process
Describe Easton's Model of the Political System - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ - A tool for identifying and assessing inputs and policy
outcomes
- Shows the different inputs into the political system, with government
institutions at the centre
- Presents the government as neutral and receptive to all interests in
society
- Inputs are values, demands, support, and resources
- Governments select which inputs they will afford greater attention to
- Outputs are those goods and services that the government agrees to
provide
QUESTIONSBANK 2024\2025 |
GUARANTEED PASS!!
Policy - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Plans and procedures developed
and implemented by governments, agencies, organizations, and
associations to achieve desired goals
Public Policy - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Course of action or
inaction chosen by public authorities to address a given problem or
interrelated set of problems that is anchored in a set of beliefs about the
best way to achieve the goals
Define Health Policy - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ - Health Policy is
subset of public policy about who has power and who does not have
power to influence health policy and health policy outcomes
- It encompasses both health care and other health-related public policies
- It is concerned with a range of issues that affect health and well-being
in addition to its obvious concern with health care organization and
provision
What do we mean by the "polis" in health Policy? - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ - The polis is a model of political society whose
primary objective is to act in the interests or welfare of the collective
- The focus of the polis is community well-being rather than the
individual
,- Motivations are public interest and self-interest
- Chief conflict is self-interest vs. public interest
- Nature of collective activity is cooperation and competition
- Building blocks of social action is groups and organizations
What do we mean by the "market" in health Policy? - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ - The market is a a social system in which individuals
engage in various activities, usually economic, to enhance their welfare
- Individuals engage in activities for the sole purpose of maximizing
self-interest
- Motivation is self-interest
- Chief conflict is self-interest vs. self-interest
- Nature of collective activity is competition
- Building blocks of social action is individuals
Define Ideology - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ - A system of ideas
about what are the key issues and what should be done about them
- A system of ideas about how problems should be addressed
- Influence the issues on which governments decide to take action
What is Neoliberalism? - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ - The belief that
the marketplace should be the arbiter of the creation and distribution of
various resources
- A political ideology that favours the market as the vehicle for fostering
economic growth and innovation
,What is the Socio-environmental Way of Thinking About Health? -
ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ - Concerned with risk conditions such as
poverty or low income rather than individual risk factors such as
cholesterol or blood pressure
- Health is defined as a positive concept in terms of connectedness to
family, friends, and one's community
- Directs attention to community and societal factors that support health
Define Epistemology - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ - Refers to how the
inquirer creates knowledge about health or other phenomena through
research and experience
- A key aspect of the knowledge creation process that shapes how
knowledge is believed to be acquired and understood
What is Post-Positivism? - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ - A rejection of
key tenets of positivism that also shares a number of features
- Considers reality that is external and can be studied and where
knowledge is objective but considers that human measurement and
instruments are inherently faulty
- While it stresses empirical evidence to support hypothesis, it says that
objectivity is an ideal rather than imperative of research
How do Behaviouralists View Health? - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ -
Provides an individualized concept of health
- Health is defined primarily in terms of individual energy, functional
ability, and disease-preventing lifestyles
, - Primary health problems are behavioural risk factors
Define meso-level policy and provide an example - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ - Policies that focus on the influence of "middle-level"
institutions upon public policy
- E.g., Creating a telehealth line
How Do Pluralism and New Institutionalism Relate to Each Other? -
ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ - Both are theories of public policy which
seek to understand the definition, development, and implementation of
health policy
- New institutionalism has some pluralist features but adds an interest in
how institutions structure the nature of politics and political debate and
the policy change process
Describe Easton's Model of the Political System - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ - A tool for identifying and assessing inputs and policy
outcomes
- Shows the different inputs into the political system, with government
institutions at the centre
- Presents the government as neutral and receptive to all interests in
society
- Inputs are values, demands, support, and resources
- Governments select which inputs they will afford greater attention to
- Outputs are those goods and services that the government agrees to
provide
