Policy Capacity Meets Politics; Comment on “Health Reform Requires Policy Capacity” [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2015 It is difficult to disagree with the general argument that successful health reform requires a significant degree of policy capacity or that all players in the policy game need to move beyond self-interested advocacy.
Patrick Fafard
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Policy Capacity Is Necessary but Not Sufficient; Comment on “Health Reform Requires Policy Capacity” [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2015 Policy capacity focuses on the managerial and organizational abilities to inform policy decisions with sound research and analysis, and facilitate policy implementation with operational efficiency.
Sheldon Gen, Amy Conley Wright
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Unpacking “Health Reform” and “Policy Capacity”; Comment on “Health Reform Requires Policy Capacity” [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2015 Health reform is the outcome of dispersed policy initiatives in different sectors, at different levels and across time. Policy work which can drive coherent health reform needs to operate across the governance structures as well as the institutions that ...
David Legge, Deborah H Gleeson
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Policy Capacity in the Learning Healthcare System; Comment on “Health Reform Requires Policy Capacity” [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2015 Pierre-Gerlier Forest and his colleagues make a strong argument for the need to expand policy capacity among healthcare actors. In this commentary, I develop an additional argument in support of Forest et al view.
William Gardner
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Health Reform Requires Policy Capacity [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2015 Among the many reasons that may limit the adoption of promising reform ideas, policy capacity is the least recognized. The concept itself is not widely understood.
Pierre-Gerlier Forest +3 more
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Policy Capacity for Health Reform: Necessary but Insufficient; Comment on “Health Reform Requires Policy Capacity” [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2016 Forest and colleagues have persuasively made the case that policy capacity is a fundamental prerequisite to health reform. They offer a comprehensive life-cycle definition of policy capacity and stress that it involves much more than problem ...
Owen Adams
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Analysis of China's fight against COVID-19 from the perspective of policy tools—policy capacity [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 Judging from the number of confirmed cases, deaths, cures and the time taken to restore normal social and economic order, China is undoubtedly one of the most successful countries in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, which highlights strong policy capacity
Shuicheng Zhu +3 more
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Policy capacity and Singapore’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic [PDF]
Policy & Society, 2020 Despite its excellent public healthcare system and efficient public administration, Singapore has been severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. While fatalities in the city-state remain low and contact tracing efforts have been largely successful, it ...
J. J. Woo
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Mobilizing Policy (In)Capacity to Fight COVID-19: Understanding Variations in State Responses
Policy & Society, 2020 The objective of this collection of essays is to gain insights into the different national-level state responses to COVID-19 around the world and the conditions that shaped them.
Giliberto Capano +4 more
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India's Foreign Policy Capacity [PDF]
Policy Design and Practice, 2019 AbstractThis paper attempts a qualitative assessment of the policy capacity of India’s foreign policy system via an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) an...
Byron Chong, Kanti Bajpai
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