Policy_Implementation_And_Evaluation

Policy Implementation And Evaluation Policy Implementation and Evaluation: Literature Synthesis Occupational therapy is a health profession that is concerned with what people do. It is aimed at preventing illness and disability, promoting adaptation to life changes, and improving the quality of life. Occupational therapists work with individuals, groups, agencies, organizations, and schools in publicly-funded or private practice to help the clients live a full life with meaningful occupations. Therefore, it is important that occupational therapists understand and be proactive on emerging public policy to help protect and support the occupational well-being of the clients. The objective of this paper is to familiarize occupational therapy practitioners with the themes and approaches of policy sciences, especially policy implementation and evaluation. This paper is a review of current theoretical literature, which focuses on (a) the historical background to help the readers conceptualize the thematic framework as a natural development and evolution of policy sciences, and (b) a specific plan of analysis that is grouped into six major themes—equity and fairness, ethics and values, evaluative process of policy implementation, relationships among implementation players, research designs, and complexity of bureaucracies. Finally, a concluding section discusses the significance of practitioners’ active involvement in the public policy process to set the future direction policy, implementation, process, 1986, bureaucracies, analysis, research, sabatier, garson, causal, occupational, mazmanian, theme, should, through, theory, systems, science, public, pp, evaluation, authors, 1993, values, stated, sciences, program, people, level, approach, synoptic, street-level, shares, ripley, relationships, readers