Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Childhood Obesity, Smallpox, Decision-Making
5 Nov 2016
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Chapter 7 policy implementation in buse et al. (2012). Ontario"s action plan for health care - this is an example of government communicating about policy to the public. Issue identification and agenda setting: what is the problem or issue, who has the primary responsibility for addressing the issue, does it get on the agenda. Stage at which policy decisions are translated into action. Considered most difficult and critical stage in policy process. Implementation gap - , between what was planned and what occured: long history of policies not meeting the goals or addressing the problem. Implementation is often not well planned and under resourced leading to inadequate implementation. Can be political winners and losers become evident & tensions ay arise among actors. Not putting enough time money or people to see through: we have a long history of implemented plans/policies and problems still existing. Goals set to reduce/address problems : what they have se;ected actually doesn"t meet the goal.
