Although the power of the State to improve population health through public policies has
been acknowledged for hundreds of years—including, more recently, by proponents of the …

Abstract The Ottawa Charter laid the ground work for a new research and practice agenda
by urging health promoters to advocate for healthy public policies. After more than 20 years …

This article examines the possible reasons why the published literature on community-
based coalition strategies offers only marginal evidence that such approaches lead to health …

There is a rich and extensive literature regarding coalitions as vehicles for amassing
resources, influence, and energy in pursuit of a health goal. Despite insufficient empirical …

About two decades ago, Paul Sabatier (1991) urged scholars to develop better theories and
empirics for understanding policy processes. Sabatier's proposition, in collaboration with …

Unfortunately, not every coalition has been successful, and not every coalition has achieved
its results without having its members pay a high price for its success (Dowling, O'Donnell & …

People can influence government in a number of ways. For some, elections serve as the
principal conduit, whereas for others political party affiliation serves this purpose. People …

Although it is regarded as a central concept in the practice of health promotion, intersectoral
health-related action (IHA) has, to date, failed more often than it has succeeded. In this …

I In health promotion, a great deal is invested in community coalitions whose effectiveness is
usually associated with a high level of inter-organisational network development. The main …

Community-based coalitions are commonly formed to plan and to carry out public health
interventions. The literature includes evaluations of coalition structure, composition, and …