Political Science and Its Role in Public Health Policy
From a political science lens, climate change is often described as this type of complex issue with no simple solution. What are these issues called?
Wicked problem
Increasing severe weather and natural disasters place additional demand on which Australian institution?
The Australian Defence force
The Australian Defence Force frames climate change as a significant issue of what?
National Security
What type of policy relies on evidence-based decision making as its cornerstone.
Political ideologies, methodologies, and motives shape this key element that informs what action should be taken in health policy. What is the type of evidence gathered and interpreted?
scientific
What effects of climate change threatens defence infrastructure and bases
Higher temperatures, rising seas and natural disasters
The climate emergency has been described as a direct threat to one other security other than human and ecological
traditional security
What is the very first step in reforming or determining a health policy?
identifying the problem
Mapping the effects of carbon pricing policy on emissions volume; examining the connection between public attitudes and policy settings is an example of _________ analysis. Hint starts with 'q'
quantitative
From the article, at a fundamental level, security doesn't mean much if it doesn't extend to conditions of survival. The climate emergency has been described as a direct threat to:
human security.
Why is climate change considered as a ‘threat multiplier’?
Climate change has the potential to exacerbate other drivers of insecurity such as water, food and energy (Werrel & Femia, 2015).
What is the evidence used to assess the relevance and applicability of health policy or policy reform to a specific population.
There are 3 types of evidence that make up evidence-based decision-making. One of them relates to people's own experiences; what is it called?
Experiential evidence
linking to the 300 points question, what is the type of security that the climate emergency has been described as a direct threat to:
ecological security.
Finish the sentence, ‘at a fundamental level, security doesn’t mean much if it doesn’t extend to conditions of…’
Survival
in policy-based discussion (including health or climate policy), what factors are considered non-quantifiable or qualitative factors?
Factors like: political motives, ideologies, and institutional values.
Alongside engineers and scientists, which group of academics is needed to respond to climate change from a political lens?
philosophical academics
Based on the article, climate-driven droughts, desertification, changing rainfall patterns and the loss of arable land could lead to what effects on society? (hint: there is two answers)
collapse of the governments or a fleeing population.
While often overlooked in political science, climate change has major consequences for this form of security, including food and financial stability. What is this form of security
human security
From the previous question (400 points), why are these types of qualitative factors or non-quantifiable factors/evidence treated as important?
because they influence how decisions are interpreted, prioritised, and implemented.