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Health Administration and Policy Metaphors

Health Administration and Policy Metaphors. Wei Wang. English 393 6/24/2009. What is a Metaphor?. a rhetorical trope where a comparison is made between two seemingly unrelated subjects. Typically, a first object is described as being a second object. Examples of metaphors:

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Health Administration and Policy Metaphors

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  1. Health Administration and Policy Metaphors Wei Wang English 393 6/24/2009

  2. What is a Metaphor? • a rhetorical trope where a comparison is made between two seemingly unrelated subjects. Typically, a first object is described as being a second object. • Examples of metaphors: Mortgage Meltdown, Troop Surge, and Graveyard Shift • Source: http://www.all-science-fair projects.com/science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Metaphor

  3. 3 Common Metaphors

  4. Rule of Thumb • Definition: estimation made according to a rough and ready practical rule, not based on science or exact measurement. • Derive from the belief that English law allowed a man to beat his wife with a stick so long as it is was no thicker than his thumb. • Source: http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/rule-of-thumb.html

  5. A Skeleton in the Closet • Definition: A secret source of shame, potentially ruinous if exposed, which a person or family makes efforts to conceal. • The phrase 'a skeleton in the closet' was coined in England in the 19th century. • The English now usually use 'a skeleton in the cupboard', with 'skeleton in the closet' more common in the USA. • Source: • http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/skeleton-in-the-closet.html

  6. Double Cross • Definition: An act of treachery, perpetrated on a previous partner in a deceit. • The term 'double-cross' has been used in various contexts for many centuries, usually as a straightforward reference to the shape of two crosses, as in the architectural design of cathedrals for example. • Source: http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/double-cross.html

  7. Health Administration and Policy • A statement of a decision regarding a goal in health care and a plan for achieving that goal. For example, to prevent an epidemic, a program for inoculating a population is developed and implemented. • Source: http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/health+policy

  8. Health Care Gatekeeper • Definition: Gatekeepers don't determine what routes patients travel or how quickly they move, just whether they can enter the system and how much they pay when they exit. A gatekeeper's role is exclusively commercial • Example: “Health care gatekeepers are hard to find these days.” • Source: http://albany.bizjournals.com/albany/stories/1999/05/24/smallb4.html?page=2

  9. Sank into a Coma • Definition: slowly started to go into an unconscious state of mind and go into a coma. • The metaphor is constructed rounded the idea that health is up and illness is down. • Source: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/pagerender.fcgi?artid=1419170&pageindex=1

  10. Medicine is war • Definition: encourages the virtues required to survive the long hours and intense hierarchies of hospital life • discriminates against feeling and reflection and makes it harder to strike the right balance between work and personal life • Source: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/pagerender.fcgi?artid=1419170&pageindex=1

  11. The End Any Questions?

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