Week 2 - Introduction Flashcards

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Who is Tommy Douglas

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  • Created the idea of universal and single payer health care in Canada
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2
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Models of Policy

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  • Consensus
  • Conflict
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Consensus Model of Policy

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  • Assumptions from natural and physical sciences
  • Can conduct actual experiments
  • Rational consideration of alternatives
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Conflict Model of Policy

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  • Recognition of the role of ideologies and values
  • Groups have differential access to power
  • Emotional investment in policy
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5
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Concepts of society

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  • Market Model
  • Polis Model
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Market Model of Society

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  • Neoliberalism
  • Self interest
  • Competition
  • Material exchange
  • ‘We think off ourselves as individuals’
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Polis Model of Society

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  • Social democracy
  • Public interest
  • Groups and organizations
  • ‘We think of ourselves as a community’
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Ways of thinking about health

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  • Medical
  • Behavioural/lifestyle
  • Socio-environmental
  • Structural/critical
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Health as Medically Determined

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  • Health influenced by physiological processes, biomedical markers etc
  • Most dominant in Canada
  • Medical Intervention
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Health as behaviour/lifestyle determined

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  • Focus on behavioural risk factors
  • Aim is to change behaviours
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Health as socio-environmentally determined

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  • Living and working conditions that can bring about health
  • Materialism
  • Focus on community and social factors like poverty or living and working conditions
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Health as structurally determined

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  • Why is poverty caused and how can structural changes fix it
  • Rejects individualism
  • Aim is to address inequalities
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13
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What are knowledge paradigms

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  • Set of beliefs/assumptions about knowledge
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14
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What is ontology

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  • What can be known
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15
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What is Epistemology

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  • What evidence is counted and not counted
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16
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What is methodology

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  • What tools are used to generate knowledge
  • Scientific method, randomized control trials etc
17
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What are social theories

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  • Positivism
  • Interpretivism
  • Critical Theory
18
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What is positivism

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  • There are universal laws that can be applicable in real world settings
  • Positive affirmation of theories through the scientific method
  • Collection and analysis of quantitive data
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What is post-positivism

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  • Agrees that researchers can uncover things
  • Also that researchers can bring a bias to their own research in the way they ask questions etc
20
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What is interpretivism

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  • They way one interprets people influences data/results
  • Qualitative research
  • Not considered as important academically
21
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What is critical theory

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  • Explicitly thinking about how power/structure affects peoples health directly
  • Focus on social, political and economic context