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Health policy : an introduction to process and power / Gill Walt

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Johannesburg : London ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Witwatersrand University Press ; Zed Books, [1994]Copyright date: ©1994Description: xiv, 226 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1868142736
  • 9781868142736
  • 185649263X
  • 9781856492638
  • 1856492648
  • 9781856492645
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.1 23
LOC classification:
  • RA393 .W35 1994
Contents:
1. Introduction -- 2. How does politics affect participation in health policy? -- 3. Power and the policy process -- 4. Setting the policy agenda: who influences what? -- 5. The government policy arena: the heart of policy-making -- 6. Can interest groups influence government policy? -- 7. The international arena: who is driving policy? -- 8. Implementation: do those who implement decide? -- 9. Evaluation and research: feeding into policy? -- 10. Power and process in shaping change
Summary: Providing an introduction to the way health policies are made and who influences them, this book combines a comparative analytical framework for understanding health policy with a wide range of examples of actual policy choices from North and South
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Books Books Main Library General Stacks 362.1 WAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available MUL24080042
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-218) and index

1. Introduction -- 2. How does politics affect participation in health policy? -- 3. Power and the policy process -- 4. Setting the policy agenda: who influences what? -- 5. The government policy arena: the heart of policy-making -- 6. Can interest groups influence government policy? -- 7. The international arena: who is driving policy? -- 8. Implementation: do those who implement decide? -- 9. Evaluation and research: feeding into policy? -- 10. Power and process in shaping change

Providing an introduction to the way health policies are made and who influences them, this book combines a comparative analytical framework for understanding health policy with a wide range of examples of actual policy choices from North and South

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