Health Policy
An Introduction to Process and Power
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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.In its exploration of power, the book focuses on the role of the state in the context of interest groups and other actors. It looks at the nature of political systems and the extent to which participation is encouraged. It also explores issues of global influence, asking how far the North shapes health policies in the South. In its exploration of processes, the book asks how issues get on to the policy agenda, what the processes of formulation are and who the influential actors are.
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Health Policy, Gill Walt
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- Released
- 2004
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- (Paperback),
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- Title
- Health Policy
- Subtitle
- An Introduction to Process and Power
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Gill Walt
- Publisher
- Zed Books
- Released
- 2004
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 240
- ISBN10
- 1856492648
- ISBN13
- 9781856492645
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- 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.In its exploration of power, the book focuses on the role of the state in the context of interest groups and other actors. It looks at the nature of political systems and the extent to which participation is encouraged. It also explores issues of global influence, asking how far the North shapes health policies in the South. In its exploration of processes, the book asks how issues get on to the policy agenda, what the processes of formulation are and who the influential actors are.