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Assessment 1

Module 1

Discussion Topic 1: What is Public Health Policy?

Consider the various definitions of policy. Read Buse (chapter 1). Which do you think are the most important contextual factors which influence policy?

Discussion Topic 2: Perspectives of Policy making

Which view of policymaking do you subscribe to and why? What/who do you think policy is for and why?

Module 2

Discussion Topic 1: Ideologies and Representations within Policy

- What are some of the dominant ideologies apparent within a health policy you are familiar with? How are the subjects of the policy represented within this policy?

Discussion Topic 2: Competing Interests jn Health Policy Process

- Describe a current health policy in your community, or choose one from the readings. Who were the stakeholders involved in the process of developing the policy? How were policy ideas or debates framed? Who was missing from the policy process?

Module 3

Discussion Took 1: Government as a Eigulatnr of publithealth

- What tensions do public health advocates face In advocating for public health policy and interventions? Reflect on recent television, radio or print media and how debates on health regulations are currently played out.

Discussion Topic 2: The 'nanny state'

- Critics of government regulation often disparagingly refer to 'the nanny state', particularly In relation to curbs on commodities such as alcohol. Chapman (2013) tackled this head on with a provocative article about how the nanny state is good for us, for example by mandating smoke alarms and background checks for childcare workers. see Chapman, S. (2013). One hundred and fifty ways the nanny state is good for us.