Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Stakeholder Analysis, Disease Surveillance, Occupational Safety And Health
15 Oct 2017
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Situating issue identification & policy development: issue identification, agenda setting, policy design/development, implementation, evaluation & monitoring. Identify the issue: content-related: proactive vs reactive. Proactive effect: where do issues come from? toxicology studies, epidemiological studies, environmental monitoring, biological monitoring, product surveillance, disease surveillance, investigations of disease outbreaks etc ideally get this information from multiple sources. Depends on the situation: characterize the, risk. What is the underlying agent: if talking about a new epidemic or an unknown disease you may be able to id one specific pathogen, something along the lines of obesity = likely not one underlying cause/agent. Who are the susceptible populations: characteristics of the most vulnerable people and how are they exposed. Are there scientific uncertainties: important to identify these and not just ignore them. Narrow is more appropriate in an issue that is time-sensitive or a contained issue. Broad allows us to take more time and uses; typically, when there are different avenues of exposure (ex/ global warming)
