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Questions:

1. Identify the 4 main goals of health care policy discussed in the text and lectures and provide an example of each. (etext 3:3 week 1 security liberty equity efficiency

2. What are the policy levers discussed in class? Provide an example of 1 policy lever and how it is used in policy implementation, week 1 slide

3. What are the 3 levels of government responsible for health care policy issues?

a What level of government would be responsible for the regulation of health technologies?

b. What level of government would be responsible for determining what medical acts and technologies are covered under public health insurance?

C. What level of government would be responsible for planning the location and operation of a homeless shelter? Municipality week 2 slide B. 9, 10 and chapter 2

4. Name 4 provincial healthcare planning institutions that were or are currently responsible for healthcare planning in Ontario, Provide one strength and one weakness for each organization/institution.  chapter 1 under unit 2 Etext-chap 1, 2 2.4 + week 3 from slide

5 District health council: 1973-2005, 1

6 councils at that time, stake holders from local community. no decision making ability, advisory role, centralized power of MOHLTC Strength- they were from local community and hence could best determine local health needs and priorities Weakness- centralized model with councils having no liberty of their own in making decisions and upon budgeting Regional Authorities:

7 of them, centralized = strength: responsible for restructuring plans and served as planning bodies after DHC's LHIN decentralized, regionalized, looks more into the requirement of the regions and concentrates properly on the needs of the community too