POLY1000 Final: notes for Poly1000 exam.docx

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Notes are compiled from a combination of lecture slides and the textbook: social policy in. 2009" (this information is up to date as of 2012) Social policy aims to improve people"s welfare, and is especially concerned with the welfare of those who are vulnerable". A pattern of government decisions and actions intended to address a perceived public problem The course of government action (or inaction) taken in response to public problems. It is associated with formally approved policy goals and means, as well as the regulations and practices of agencies that implement programs. A set of interrelated decision take by a political actor or group of actors concerning the selection of goals and the means of achieving them within a specified situation. A choice made by government to undertake some course of action. Whatever governments choose to do or not to do. The pharmaceutical benefits scheme introduced in the 1950s. Medibank and medicare in the 70s and 80s.