Subject - health care policy (link to case studies is provided below ) Provide a case analysis using the questions provided in the worksheet analysis in the link below as a guide. All the instruct
Assignment #2 Case Study Analysis Work Sheet
(To be done individually or with a partner).
This assignment is designed to help you begin thinking like policy analysts and linking early theoretical material from the course to the case. Choose either an “innovation” or “story” case from the links provided, or one of the cases from the Community Based Participatory Research document. Make sure your choice from the links is not one of the extremely short cases. Provide a case analysis using the questions below as a guide. 800-1500 words, 12 pt font.
Note: You can do this assignment over a number of days, as with the suggested lay-out below, or all at once. Some questions may not be applicable to your chosen topic. You can simply state this in the assignment. Once you answer the questions, you may wish to go back and make sure that your submission “reads well,” meaning that it seems to fit together logically/thematically for the reader.
Day 1- Context (Introduction) and Defining the Problem:
Provide the Case study title and URL weblink
Briefly provide, (if applicable) the “what, why, who, where, and when” of the situation. Reflecting on this, define the main problem that your case’s innovation or story was addressing.
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Day 2- Research and Analysis:
Were government or other organizations doing anything to address the problem/issue?
What was driving the issue or opening up the opportunity in this case study (A crisis? Economic? Social? Cultural? Fiscal? Regulatory? Technological? Specific supportive leaders? Or a combination of these?)
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Day 3- Research and Analysis Continued:
If applicable: Was feedback gathered from other organizations/stakeholders and were there competing proposals or was this initiative based on a community partnership working on a specific/common goal? Does this case reflect an identified preferred option (solution) among a number of options that could have been explored?
If the case study is the result of a research project, briefly define/explain the methodology (ex: was is a project based on community based participatory research (community-led, perhaps using interviews, surveys, etc.?) Tip: If you chose a Case study from the community-based participatory research document, look at pages 7 and 13.
Were there barriers that presented challenges? What contributed to the success of the project/initiative?
With this answered, does the problem defined in Day 1 need to be tweaked?
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Day 4- Design, Implementation, Communication:
List all actors impacted by this innovation, or in this story (e.g. civil servants., government departments, private companies, universities, civil society organizations (competing or partnered), politicians, citizens. You can think of the impact through policy lenses: would this serve, or not, equity groups? Was there possibility of intergovernmental impacts? Was “red tape”/ administrative delay standing in the way of implementation, and if so, how was this overcome?
What were the policy, innovation, or story outcomes? Does this initiative create openings for further related developments?
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Day 5- Reflecting through theory:
Kingdon: On reflection, perhaps looking above to “day 2”, did a policy problem, proposals and politics (crisis, ideas, leadership) all converge to create a window of opportunity for this case study innovation or policy accomplishment/solution to occur?
Was this a case showing a “diffusion of innovation” (from elsewhere) and/or a case that has the potential to be translated or borrowed elsewhere?
