Test 2 Flashcards
What is the first step of the policy process?
Agenda setting
What part of the policy process is the public attention focusing on a public problem or issue?
Agenda Setting
What part of the policy process is policy makers formally adopting a policy solution, usually in the form of a legislation or rule?
Policy Adoption
What part of the policy process is policy analysis inside and outside government to determine whether the policy is addressing the problem and whether implementation is proceeding well and may recommend revisions in the agenda, in the formulation of policy, or in its implementation?
Policy Evaluation
What part of the policy process is policy makers in the legislature and bureacracy taking up the issue and creating legislative, regulatory, or programmatic strategies to address the problem?
Policy Formation
What part of the policy process is government agencies beginning the job of making the policy work by establishing procedures, writing guidance documents, or issuing grants-in-aid to other governments?
Policy Implementation
The four skills a policy practitioner needs are
Analytic
Political
Interactional
Clarifying
Which important historical policy document has shaped the Canadian Health Care sector by including a stipulation that all medically necessary health care is covered under the provincial health insurance plan?
Canada Health Act
What are the healthcare values?
Honesty
Trust
Courage
Fairness
Caring
Respect
What healthcare value is keeping our promises?
Trust
What healthcare value is talking straight, being genuine and ethical?
Honesty
What healthcare value is taking accountability for results, beng up front about mistakes and taking considered risks?
Courage
What healthcare value is treating people justly and equitably?
Fairness
What healthcare value is listening carefully to others, working together to achieve shared goals?
Caring
Elected officials must always make choices among competing demands with their choices reflecting what?
Their values
The needs and interests of their constituents
Their financial supporters
What are the six steps to evaluating a problem in a current policy?
- Verify, define, and detail the problem
- Establish evaluation criteria
- Identify alternative policies
- Evaluate alternative policies
- Display and distinguish among alternative policies
- Monitor the implemented policy
What are the evaluation criteria?
Cost
Benefits
Technical feasability
Economic and financial possibility
Political viability
Administrative operability
What are the sources of health policy?
Professional
Organizational
Community stakeholders
What source of health policy is the need for standards and guidelines for practice?
Professional
What source of health policy is consistent with the needs of health care purchasers (employers), payers (insurers), and suppliers (health system providers)?
Organizational
What source of health policy includes the needs of special interest groups and government entities?
Community stakeholders
What was the 1974 Lalonde Report?
“A New Perspective on the Health of Canadians” written by Marc Lalonde, Canada’s Minister of National Health and Welfare that pushed towards preventive measures in four ways: Biology (genetic factors), Environment (physical, social, economic), Lifestyle (diet, exercise, etc), and Healthcare Organization (accessibilty to healthcare).
What was created by the World Health Organization at a conference in Ottawa in 1986 that focused on preventing disease by promoting healthy lifestyles and environments?
Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, 1986
What were the five keys in the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, 1986?
- Build Healthy Public Policy
- Create Supportive Environments
- Strengthen Community Action
- Develop Personal Skills
- Reorient Health Services
What was built on expanding the ideas from the Lalonde Report and Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion wanting to update Canada’s healthcare system by focusing on modern challenges and promoting a more holistic approach to health?
Towards a New Perspective on Canadian Health Policy, 2001
What is the 2002 Kirby Report’s formal name?
The Health of Canadians - The Federal Role
What was the point of the Kirby Report?
Making the healthcare system more sustainable and effective while improving access to care.
What were the key takeaway recommendations from the Kirby Report?
More federal funding
More private sector involvement
Wait time reductions
More home care and mental health services
Financial protection for high prescription drug costs
What is the criteria for evaluating alternatives that measures whether the alternative actually produces the desired result?
Technical Feasibility
What measures the cost of the alternatives and the benefits it will produce?
Economic and Financial Possibility
What measures whether the alternative is acceptable or can be made acceptable to relevant groups?
Political Viability
What measures how possible the altnerative will be to implement?
Administrative Operability
How to monitor the implemented policy?
Before/after comparisons
With/without comparisons
Actual/planned performance
Experimental (controlled) models
Quasi-experimental models
Cost-oriented approaches
What is essential for a policy solution to a societal problem?
Policital viability
What is a policy that is considered desirable to politicians and stakeholders having the best chance of passage by a policymaking body?
Political Viability
What is the difference between policy adoption and policy implementation?
Policy adoption is practioners trying to have the policies approved or enacted while policy implementation is carrying out the enacted policy.
Program implementation is carried out by
The executive branch of government through guidelines and regulations
True or False: It is not unusual for the intent of a policy to get lost in the translation to program.
True
What 1 of 4 skills that policy practitioners need is this definition describing: evaluate health problems and develop policy proposals to anaylze the severity of specific problems, to identify the barriers to policy implementation and to develop strategies for assessing programs?
Analytic skills
What 1 of 4 skills that policy practitioners need is this definition describing: To gain and use power to develop and implement political strategy?
Political Skills
What 1 of 4 skills that policy practitioners need is this definition describing: To participate in task groups and to persuade other people to support specific policies?
Interactional skills
What 1 of 4 skills that policy practitioners need is this definition describing: To identify and rank relevant principles when engaging in policy practice?
Clarifying Skills
