Health Policy 3400 Midterm Questions With Complete Solutions
Policy: - (ANSWER)A broad statement of goals and objectives and means that create the means for
activity: explicit or implicit. (written vs not)
"...decisions taken by those with responsibility
for a given policy area."
also think of them as decisions - gov decides to pass a law (that decision reflects the policy)
o statements count, and actual decisions count as policy
o gov choosing not to respond to an issue could be their policy
mandate - (ANSWER)Mandate letter - what they want you to do in their term of office
That reflects the mandate of what issues are important to the gov
o Reflected in the policy
o Publicly available
o Tracker - track policies to see what ones are completed, modified or not being pursued
o See similar levels provincially
o Currently mandate letters are not available - Doug ford gov
Can't track accountability
Public policy: - (ANSWER)Policy that has been made by the state of the government.
"...a course of action or inaction chosen by public authorities to address a given problem..."
"...anything a government chooses to do or not to do."
Can be both public and private (public like the gov, private like Microsoft)
Health Policy: - (ANSWER)"...courses of action (and inaction) that affect the set of institutions,
organizations, services and funding arrangements of the health and health care system."
,Health Policy 3400 Midterm Questions With Complete Solutions
• Policies that have to do with health
• Policies created by health agencies/organizations
• Can be both public and private (public like the gov, private like apple workers health benefits)
NOTE: policy - (ANSWER)Policy is big picture
Subset is public policy
Subset is health policy but other bit of it can be private
HP example: Who can give blood - HIV AIDS RISK - (ANSWER)• 1997 - can't give blood if you ever had sex
with a man
• 2013 - last 5 years
• 2016 - past year
• 2019 - 3 month encounter
• Mandate to address blood giving discrimination currently showing within the trend that it is being
addressed
• Good example of a health policy made by a public authority
Healthy public policy - (ANSWER)Public policies outside of the health sector
"characterized by an explicit concern for
health and equity in all areas of policy and by
an accountability for health impact."
• Healthy public policy can be in transportation (align policy with health objectives)
o Doesn't seem like health policy that's why it is called healthy public policy
o Bc so many social factors surround health and overlap - can address within other policy
o Other sectors that relate to health but originate in other fields are called Healthy public policy (vs
health policy)
• ex. Sale of alcohol at festival
o How to do that in a way that's health related
o Is it thinking about health and its impacts or not
,Health Policy 3400 Midterm Questions With Complete Solutions
Want it to be convenient vs is the accessibility bad for health
Public policy vs healthy public policy
Policy vs. Program - (ANSWER)Policy: Broad statement of goals, objectives
and means that create the framework for
activity.
Program: Activity that organizes or delivers
a service or goods to achieve a policy's
objectives.
• Program is the activity
• Policy doesn't do anything directly just sets the agenda
• Program or multiple of them to achieve aims of broader policy
Policy: To reduce # of overdoses and
deaths caused by opioids (e.g., fentanyl)
Program: Ontario Naloxone Program for
Pharmacies (free Naloxone kits)
Politics - (ANSWER)Politics: "the art or science concerned with
guiding or influencing governmental policy"
• Politics - how do I get in power to influence what we do
o Art and science of getting to setting agenda
• ex. Doug Ford: Cutting public health programs
o Politicians changing policy
• ex. Harper gov muzzling scientists - idea that there was a communications policy
, Health Policy 3400 Midterm Questions With Complete Solutions
o How federally funded scientists can talk to media?
Details have to be vetted
What you can say as a scientist in Canada
o Evidence doesn't say anything as politics shapes it
Policy vs. Politics - (ANSWER)"...understanding the politics of the policy
process is arguably as important as
understanding how medicine improves
health."
Policy vs. Law - (ANSWER)Policy vs Law
• Law can enact policy
• JT campaigned on idea of legalizing weed
• Policy of objective was legalization
• Only way to do it is to make law that legalizes is
• Muddies us when the policy is trying to be changed but not reflected in the law
• Policy - just a statement of objectives
• Law - enacts those objectives
Policy vs Law Examples - (ANSWER)Ex. Law changed in vaping - where they can be used
o Hospital had to update policy to include vaping
o Could have not changed policy and still be illegal
o But wanted hospitals policy in enact/promote the law
Policy vs Not Policy - (ANSWER)Ex. Fevers and work: Forbidding people with fevers from going
to work
o Work setting if they made a policy they have control over that
o May not be a good policy bc it might not have repercussions
Policy: - (ANSWER)A broad statement of goals and objectives and means that create the means for
activity: explicit or implicit. (written vs not)
"...decisions taken by those with responsibility
for a given policy area."
also think of them as decisions - gov decides to pass a law (that decision reflects the policy)
o statements count, and actual decisions count as policy
o gov choosing not to respond to an issue could be their policy
mandate - (ANSWER)Mandate letter - what they want you to do in their term of office
That reflects the mandate of what issues are important to the gov
o Reflected in the policy
o Publicly available
o Tracker - track policies to see what ones are completed, modified or not being pursued
o See similar levels provincially
o Currently mandate letters are not available - Doug ford gov
Can't track accountability
Public policy: - (ANSWER)Policy that has been made by the state of the government.
"...a course of action or inaction chosen by public authorities to address a given problem..."
"...anything a government chooses to do or not to do."
Can be both public and private (public like the gov, private like Microsoft)
Health Policy: - (ANSWER)"...courses of action (and inaction) that affect the set of institutions,
organizations, services and funding arrangements of the health and health care system."
,Health Policy 3400 Midterm Questions With Complete Solutions
• Policies that have to do with health
• Policies created by health agencies/organizations
• Can be both public and private (public like the gov, private like apple workers health benefits)
NOTE: policy - (ANSWER)Policy is big picture
Subset is public policy
Subset is health policy but other bit of it can be private
HP example: Who can give blood - HIV AIDS RISK - (ANSWER)• 1997 - can't give blood if you ever had sex
with a man
• 2013 - last 5 years
• 2016 - past year
• 2019 - 3 month encounter
• Mandate to address blood giving discrimination currently showing within the trend that it is being
addressed
• Good example of a health policy made by a public authority
Healthy public policy - (ANSWER)Public policies outside of the health sector
"characterized by an explicit concern for
health and equity in all areas of policy and by
an accountability for health impact."
• Healthy public policy can be in transportation (align policy with health objectives)
o Doesn't seem like health policy that's why it is called healthy public policy
o Bc so many social factors surround health and overlap - can address within other policy
o Other sectors that relate to health but originate in other fields are called Healthy public policy (vs
health policy)
• ex. Sale of alcohol at festival
o How to do that in a way that's health related
o Is it thinking about health and its impacts or not
,Health Policy 3400 Midterm Questions With Complete Solutions
Want it to be convenient vs is the accessibility bad for health
Public policy vs healthy public policy
Policy vs. Program - (ANSWER)Policy: Broad statement of goals, objectives
and means that create the framework for
activity.
Program: Activity that organizes or delivers
a service or goods to achieve a policy's
objectives.
• Program is the activity
• Policy doesn't do anything directly just sets the agenda
• Program or multiple of them to achieve aims of broader policy
Policy: To reduce # of overdoses and
deaths caused by opioids (e.g., fentanyl)
Program: Ontario Naloxone Program for
Pharmacies (free Naloxone kits)
Politics - (ANSWER)Politics: "the art or science concerned with
guiding or influencing governmental policy"
• Politics - how do I get in power to influence what we do
o Art and science of getting to setting agenda
• ex. Doug Ford: Cutting public health programs
o Politicians changing policy
• ex. Harper gov muzzling scientists - idea that there was a communications policy
, Health Policy 3400 Midterm Questions With Complete Solutions
o How federally funded scientists can talk to media?
Details have to be vetted
What you can say as a scientist in Canada
o Evidence doesn't say anything as politics shapes it
Policy vs. Politics - (ANSWER)"...understanding the politics of the policy
process is arguably as important as
understanding how medicine improves
health."
Policy vs. Law - (ANSWER)Policy vs Law
• Law can enact policy
• JT campaigned on idea of legalizing weed
• Policy of objective was legalization
• Only way to do it is to make law that legalizes is
• Muddies us when the policy is trying to be changed but not reflected in the law
• Policy - just a statement of objectives
• Law - enacts those objectives
Policy vs Law Examples - (ANSWER)Ex. Law changed in vaping - where they can be used
o Hospital had to update policy to include vaping
o Could have not changed policy and still be illegal
o But wanted hospitals policy in enact/promote the law
Policy vs Not Policy - (ANSWER)Ex. Fevers and work: Forbidding people with fevers from going
to work
o Work setting if they made a policy they have control over that
o May not be a good policy bc it might not have repercussions
