Modelling the Health Policy Process: One Size Fits All or Horses for Courses? [PDF]
A range of conceptual models for understanding the policy process have been applied to the health policy process, largely in particular sub areas or policy domains such as public health.
Powell M, Mannion R.
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Stakeholder engagement in the health policy process in a low income country: a qualitative study of stakeholder perceptions of the challenges to effective inclusion in Malawi. [PDF]
Background Inclusive engagement in healthcare policies and decision-making is essential to address the needs of patients and communities, reduce health inequities and increase the accountability of the government.
Masefield SC +3 more
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Tempest in a teapot? Toward new collaborations between mainstream policy process studies and interpretive policy studies. [PDF]
“Tempest in a teapot” is an idiom that refers to a problem that has been blown out of proportion, which is how we see the supposedly divisive relationship between two research traditions: mainstream policy process studies and interpretive policy studies.
Durnová AP, Weible CM.
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Non-communicable disease prevention policy process in five African countries. [PDF]
BackgroundThe increasing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in sub-Saharan Africa is causing further burden to the health care systems that are least equipped to deal with the challenge. Countries are developing policies to address major NCD risk
Juma PA +10 more
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Does Policy Learning Meet the Standards of an Analytical Framework of the Policy Process? [PDF]
Reference to policy learning is commonplace in the public policy literature but the question of whether it qualifies as an analytical framework applicable to the policy process has yet to be systematically addressed.
Dunlop CA, Radaelli CM.
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Factors influencing the tobacco control policy process in Egypt and Iran: a scoping review. [PDF]
IntroductionTobacco control policy is essential for addressing the growing tobacco consumption seen in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, the single greatest preventable contributor to the non-communicable disease epidemic.
Banks C, Rawaf S, Hassounah S.
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Framing and the health policy process: a scoping review. [PDF]
Framing research seeks to understand the forces that shape human behaviour in the policy process. It assumes that policy is a social construct and can be cast in a variety of ways to imply multiple legitimate value considerations.
Koon AD, Hawkins B, Mayhew SH.
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The application of theories of the policy process to obesity prevention: a systematic review and meta-synthesis. [PDF]
BackgroundTheories of the policy process are recommended as tools to help explain both policy stasis and change.MethodsA systematic review of the application of such theoretical frameworks within the field of obesity prevention policy was conducted.
Clarke B, Swinburn B, Sacks G.
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Introducing payment for performance in the health sector of Tanzania- the policy process. [PDF]
BackgroundPrompted by the need to achieve progress in health outcomes, payment for performance (P4P) schemes are becoming popular policy options in the health systems in many low income countries.
Chimhutu V +4 more
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Learning heuristics, issue salience and polarization in the policy process
This article proposes a theory that links issue salience and actor polarisation to the uses of learning heuristics in the policy process. In harking back to research on public policy, behavioural economics, and crisis management, we argue that policy ...
Philipp Trein, Thenia Vagionaki
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