Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Party System, Advocacy Group, Wicked Problem

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

Document Summary

In canada we"re thought of as having a two party system at the federal level because the liberals and conservatives are the two that are in power. 5 stages even though they are presented in linear fashion policy is not always made in linear fashion. In order for a policy to be triggered a policy window must be open, 4 different types of windows. An election, social change (interest groups pushing), crisis, commissions and inquest. If you broaden the scope you can have more people involved and the likelihood of action will be greater because of this increase. Role of physicians assistant narrowing the scope because they slightly go in on nurses territory and some doctors don"t like them either so there isn"t action forward for funding of physician assistants. With pharmacists administering flu shots doctors trying to narrow the scope, while pharmacists are trying to broaden the scope. Kingdom model problem stream, policy stream, politics stream.