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Public Policy Analysis Tool for Rapid Decision Making in Public Health

May 10, 2022

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The NCCHPP has collaborated with the Institut national de santé publique du Québec (INSPQ) to develop a public policy analysis tool adapted to rapid decision-making contexts. This tool is particularly relevant in the context of a health emergency, where decisions must...

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Public Policy Competencies for Public Health: A Review of the Literature

Feb 16, 2021

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This report is intended to inform public health professionals about the trends and tendencies over the past 15 years or so related to what public health schools, organizations, and authorities have done and are doing with regard to developing competency frameworks as...

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Understanding Public Policy Agenda Setting Using the 4 P’s Model: Power, Perception, Potency and Proximity

Dec 04, 2020

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This briefing note on agenda setting helps one to understand the ranking of government priorities, that is, why some issues are prioritized and others ignored. The study of agenda setting concerns the ranking of government priorities. It enables understanding of why,...

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Fostering Evidence-informed Policy Making: Uncertainty Versus Ambiguity

Jan 15, 2019

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Policy studies often distinguish between uncertainty, defined as a lack of knowledge about a policy problem or its solution, and ambiguity, defined as the potential to produce more than one interpretation of a problem. With this in mind, reducing uncertainty can be...

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Examples of the Use and Adaptation of the NCCHPP’s Framework for Analyzing Public Policies

Jul 10, 2018

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The NCCHPP presents a few examples of use and adaptation of its Framework for Analyzing Public Policies by different public health actors in Canada. Please find below six examples collected during a call for stories, launched in December 2017. These examples aim to...

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An Introduction to Punctuated Equilibrium: A Model for Understanding Stability and Dramatic Change in Public Policies

Jan 22, 2018

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This document was written by Mathieu Masse-Jolicoeur. Mathieu is a planning, programming and research officer at the Direction régionale de santé publique du Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux du Centre-Sud-de-l’île-de-Montréal. He is...

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