Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Fertility Medication, Ontario Health Insurance Plan, Fallopian Tube

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 3400A/B
• Professor: Melanie McPhail

Document Summary

Agenda setting and policy change under crisis. Be able to define what is meant by policy agenda. Understand how issues get onto the policy agenda and why some issues are prioritized over others. Be able to compare the roles of different actors in setting the policy agenda. Fa(cid:272)to(cid:396)s that i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)e a go(cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t(cid:859)s age(cid:374)da: election promises, advice from public service, political party, previous governments, foreign governments, personal priorities. Where do you find the policy agenda: speech from the throne, electoral platforms, budgets, mandate letters. Different types of policy agendas: discussion agenda: highly visible issues that are topic of discussion social media, decision agenda: formal agenda that government has decided to address, already decided what they wanted to address, more formal. Identify problematic aspects: acknowledgement of a problem, propose solutions, engage in activities to influence government interventions. A crisis is one reason why policy windows open.