Week 2 - Introduction Flashcards
1
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Who is Tommy Douglas
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- Created the idea of universal and single payer health care in Canada
2
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Models of Policy
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- Consensus
- Conflict
3
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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
4
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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
5
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Concepts of society
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- Market Model
- Polis Model
6
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Market Model of Society
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- Neoliberalism
- Self interest
- Competition
- Material exchange
- ‘We think off ourselves as individuals’
7
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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’
8
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Ways of thinking about health
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- Medical
- Behavioural/lifestyle
- Socio-environmental
- Structural/critical
9
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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
10
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Health as behaviour/lifestyle determined
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- Focus on behavioural risk factors
- Aim is to change behaviours
11
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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
12
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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
13
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What are knowledge paradigms
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- Set of beliefs/assumptions about knowledge
14
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What is ontology
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- What can be known
15
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What is Epistemology
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- What evidence is counted and not counted
