Health Policy Terms-1

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Normative analysis, empirical analysis, logical analysis and legal analysis refer to what?

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4 different types of reasoning in policy analysis

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Go over steps in rational model of decision making

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1. choose objectives
2. Look at alternative solutions
3. outline impacts, cost/benefits of each
4. Rank alternative solutions based on criteria
5. Apply models and scenario writing
6. Implement chosen decision
7.Evaluation

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6 points of new public management focus

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1. performance appraisals
2. efficiency
3. decentralizing public bureaucrayc
4. Market mechanisms
5. Competition
6. Partnerships

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Define politics of difference

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An emphasis on rights, identity and difference as a basis for policy

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6 things included in policy argument

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problem definition, casual info, proximity, novelty, possible instruments and solutions

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Punctuated Equilibrium

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Simultaneous periods of relative policy consensus with bursts of change around new issues

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8 methods of problem structuring

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1. boundary analysis
2. Assumptional analysis
3. Argument mapping
4. hierchial analysis
5. Classification analysis
6. Synetics
7. Brainstorming
8. Multiple perspective analysis

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2 major changes in policy in new era

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1. An emphasis on horizontal and cross-cutting policy due to complexity of society and government
2. A need to stay focused and coherent in face of multitudes of problems that could be dealt with - must remain effiecient and effective

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Cash transfer

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Transfer of funds for broad public support rather than particular services

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Performance Indicator

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Measure of how well a service is doing, usually financial output or customer satisfaction

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Procedural policy instrument

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Indirectly affect outcome by manipulation of policy process

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Quasi legislation

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regulations and legal decisions that have force of law but have not been passed by legislature

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Implementation

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Organizational structures and process used to execute a policy instrument

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Other types of legal instruments X6

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1. Permits
2. Licenses
3. Recognition
4. non-criminal legislation
5. Contracts
6. government sanctioned self-regulation

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Decision chain

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Sequence of agreements, decisions, clearances, to be surrmounted for the implementation process to move forward

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Forward mapping

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conventional technique of policy impoementation analysis starting with a clear statement of intent and working through specific steps of expectations for implementation

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Service delivery

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Procedures and organizational resources devoted to getting services to clients

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Advocacy coalition

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wide range of people/ groups, who share a belief system about a policy area and demonstrate coordinated activity

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Interest Intermediation

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social interests interact with state institutions

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Subgovernment

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Idea that policy is made by subsystems of all relavent polical and institutional people

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Causal chain

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links of various cause and effects in producing outcomes in implementation process

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Implementation theory

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specific resources and activities to be mobilized at each link in causal chain of implementation

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Program Theory

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Hypotheses and explanations about causal links that tie program inputs to outputs

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Social indicators

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indicators such as crime, literacy and health instead of economic ones like unemployment or inflation

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5 guiding principles of evaluation

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1. systematic- data based
2. competance of evaluators
3. Integrity and honesty
4. Respect for people inovlved
5. Respnsibility for public welfare and diversity of public interests

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Process evaluation measures what

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Implementation