HTHSCI 1RR3 UNIT 11 - CALL TO ACTION QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% CORRECT
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HTHSCI 1RR3 UNIT 11 - CALL TO
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Why are we studying the SDoH - ANSWER-To better understand:
1) Societal factors:
- (e.g., income and employment) that shape health dnhelp explain health inequities
2) societal forces
- (e.g., social and political) that shape the quality and distribution fo these factors)
Defining public policy - ANSWER-- "who gets what, where, when, and how"
- agent: government
- involves a deliberate decision to pursue a specific course of action
(doing nothing is still choice!!)
Public policy: three main components - ANSWER-1. Identify/define problem
2. identify objectives/goals
3. define how these goals will be achieved
Public policy: defining the problem - ANSWER-- causality??
- scientific paradigms (e.g. QT vs QL)
- multiple stakeholders (e.g., housing/healthcare/education)
- what type of knowledge/voices matter?
Social policy in Canada: involving Ideology - ANSWER-Early Period (1867 - 1930s)
- Limited "state" involvement - mostly charities and religious organizations
Middle Period (1945 - 1970s)
- support for state begin more involved
- initially dominated by federal footprint - over time, provinces shared cost
Neo-Llberal Period (1975 - present)
- reduced state involvement (and provinces/municipalities expected to foot more of the
bill)
- move toward individualism
Individualism in health - ANSWER-- Structural barriers downplayed - lifestyle approach
to health promotion/prevention
- presumes choice - limits space for social activism
- significant implications for responding to and (re)producing health inequities
, Positivism in health sciences - ANSWER-- reliance on quantitative approaches
- fixated on individual risk factors
- commitment to "objectivity"
- Depoliticizing health issues
how you understand health will determine how you treat patients/clients
Differing SDoH discourses - ANSWER-1. Identify those in need
- assumption that service provision will improve health
2. Identify modifiable risk factors
- assumption that behaviour change will improve health
3. living conditions shape health
- identify SDoH pathways - strengthens evidence base
4. Material circumstances differ among groups
- Strengthens evidence base - forms basis for anti-discrimination efforts
5. health determined by public policy
- attention directed ar public policy
6. SDoH distribution determined by government/societal ideology
- structures needing modification are identified
7. SDoH distribution determined by who has power in society
- focus on wealth redistribution
National housing strategy - ANSWER-- cut chronic homelessness by 50%
- Remove 530, 000 families from housing need
- Renovated and modernized 300,000 homes
- Build 125,000 new homes
Childcare and public policy - ANSWER-Money: Ottawas is spending less than half what
they need to
Education and public policy - ANSWER-Every child left behind: how education cuts fuel
inequality
Pluralism VS political economy - ANSWER-pluralism - governments adopt good policy
ideas
- why have we made such little movement on low income (e.g. basic income), social
exclusion (e.g. free tuition), and social infrastructure (e.g. national pharmacare)
Political economy - policies serve the "economic elites"
- little movement (on above) because we do not want to increase taxes on wealthy
corporations and individuals
"the foundations of public policy are, at their essence, value judgements and
ideologies."
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