Health policy frame work
Dr Nanees Ghareeb
•Public policy refers to government policy.
–sum of government activities, whether acting directly
or through agents, and those activities have an
influence on the lives of citizens.”
-political decisions for implementing programs to
achieve societal goals.
-public policy is whatever governments choose to do
or
not to do
. Failure to decide or act on a particular issue
also constitutes policy.
Defining policy, Health Policy and public
policy
•
policies
are officially or authoritatively made
decisions for guiding actions, decisions, and
behaviors of others.
•decisions taken by those with responsibility for a
given policy area – it may be in health or the
environment, in education or in trade.
•The people who make policies are referred to as
policy makers
.
•Health policy: defined as the decisions, plans, and
actions that are undertaken to achieve specific health
care goals within a society.
•Health policy is a particular version of public policy
that related to health or influence the pursuit of
health and may cover public and private policies
about health.
•an economist may say health policy is about the
allocation of scarce resources for health;
•a planner sees it as ways to influence the
determinants of health in order to improve public
health;
•a doctor it is all about health services (Walt 1994).
Feedback
•Policy is ‘decisions taken by those with
responsibility for a particular policy area’.
•Public policy refers to policies made by the state or
