Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Physician Assistant, Health Policy, Public Health

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

Document Summary

Policy isn"t always made in a linear fashion, even if it is represent like so. In order for policy to happen, theorist have said that a policy window has to open . > most predictable policy window is an electionetc. But at a very high level we talked about 4 different types of windows. Commission / inquest = figure out a solution of define a problem, so as soon as those commissions/inquests are done, hopefully they have more information to define the problem or to provide some solutions. Agenda setting is a set of policy processes to make a policy. Governments tend to not like putting policies into process unless there is going to be agreement. Agreement either by the population (the majority of people) or people who will be effected by the policy. You either narrow or broaden the scope depending.