Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Wicked Problem, Food Policy, State Ownership

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 3400A/B
• Professor: Shannon Sibbald

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First ministers meeting: all the premiers *** get together with the prime minister * on midterm. Search strategy idea is nov 10, want to see the thinking process, what searching is, how to do. Review of what we did 2 weeks" prior. Five stages in policy making: agenda-setting (initiation, policy formulation, decision making (policy execution, policy implementation, policy evaluation. Tame: the definition is fairly clear and agreed upon and the point at which they are solved is clear (but not necessarily simple to achieve) Complex: ones where stakeholders agree on the nature of the problem, but not on solutions. Wicked: lack agreement on both a definition and a solution. Wicked problem: disagreement, pick any healthcare issue, most likely a wicked problem. We"ve dealt with all the low lying things, things simple (helmet, seat belts), and we"re left with things that we have no agreement.