Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Policy Analysis, Health Canada, Nicotine

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 3400A/B
• Professor: Graham Smith

Document Summary

It is aimed at government policymakers and others who are interested in formulating or influencing policy. It outlines the rationale for choosing a particular policy alternative or course of action in a current policy debate: what to include: Identify and define the problem: describe the background and context of the problem and existing policies addressing the problem. If there is really nothing to be done about it, it will be difficult to come up with policy options: timely/relevant. It will be easier if it isn"t a really complicated issue: you shouldn"t use a lot of jargon or theory it should be easy to read and understand. If you can"t think of anything, you can look at policy briefs published on. Healthaffairs. org/briefs which will give you a sense of the issues out there as well as the template for policy briefs: the world health organization, the wellesley institute (toronto), and the hastings.