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25 Cards in this Set
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Define Population Health:
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An approach to health that aims to improve the health of an ENTIRE POPULATION
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What is a major step in achieving the aim of improving the health of the entire population?
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Reducing health inequities among population groups
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What does population health seek to step BEYOND?
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Individualized medicine and public health
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What is an important theme in population health?
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The importance of SOCIAL DETERMINANTS of health
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What actually has a relatively MINOR effect on improving health overall?
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Medicine and healthcare!
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What is Health Policy?
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A statement by government of what it intends to do or not do
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What are some examples of health policies?
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-Laws
-Orders -Regulations -Rulings -Decisions |
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How do Health policies impact health?
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By altering HEALTH DETERMINANTS
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What are 4 major health determinant categories that health policies impact to change health?
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-Physical environment
-Behavior/biology -Social factors -Access to health services |
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How can health policies change Physical environment?
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By mitigating negative environmental factors - air, water, lead, etc;
By taking advantage of positive things |
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How can health policy affect behavior and biology?
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By changing patterns of causes of death
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But what are policy makers reluctant to do to change behavior and biology?
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Reluctant to impose penalties or provide overt rewards for behavior modification (fat tax)
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What social factors can health policy influence?
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-Income/economics
-Discrimination |
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What are 5 types of access to healthcare that health policy can increase to improve health?
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-Preventive healthcare access
-Acute/ER services -Chronic -Restorative/rehab -Palliative/pain mngmt |
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So what IS Public Health Policy?
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The rules, ordinances, and laws that SUPPORT healthy actions and behaviors
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What is the 'mechanism' of how health policy works?
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It improves environments for better choice-making, and safeguards the environment regardless of behavior
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What is an example of such a policy that safeguards the environment regardless of behavior?
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Making smoke detectors wired within the house so they're always on; Airbags.
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What are the 3 phases in policymaking processes?
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1. Formulation
2. Implementation 3. Modification |
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What happens in Policy formulation?
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The agenda is set
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What does setting the agenda to formulate a health policy consist of?
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-Defining the problem
-Determining possible solutions -Considering political circumstances |
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How is an agenda implemented?
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By going before the legislature
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What has to happen for an agenda to be implemented if it passes the legislature?
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The regulation is then written by the executive branch.
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Who approves or rejects new laws?
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The executive branch - president
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Who makes laws and determines if spending is appropriate?
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Congress/Legislature
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Who interprets the laws?
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The judicial Court system
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