Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Disease Surveillance, Health Canada, Animal Testing

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

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Lecture 7 issue identification & policy development. Identifying the issue: assess risks & benefits, select a strategy. Situating issue identification & policy development does not always happen in a linear fashion: issue identification, agenda setting, policy design/development, evaluation & monitoring. As opposed to more general policy issues. Based off of health canada decision framework: this framework is based off of an exposure to an agent (e. g. chemical) Quantifying the risks associated with a specific harm: when we are identifying related to health policies, you need to do what you can do to conceptualize the issue. Identify the issue: content-related: content-related = looking at specifically of the content of the issue, proactive vs. reactive. Reactive = looking at adopting a policy because you know that there is an emergent threat that hasn"t materialized yet or a sweeping epidemic that has already started. Without understanding these factors, it would be difficult to develop a policy that is.