This article directs attention to the significance, for health promotion advocates, of reflecting
on how “problems” are constituted, or brought into existence, as particular sorts of problems …

This article illustrates how conceptualizing policy-as-discourse offers opportunities for those
with a vested interest in policy to 'reach the parts that other theories and methods can't …

This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to health services and health care
policy in Australia. It explains what governments have done and what they can do about …

Critiques of the 'naïve rationalist'model of policy-making abound in the sociological and
political science literature. Yet academic debate on health care policy-making continues to …

In recent years the pace of reform in health policy and the NHS has been relentless. But how
are policies formed and implemented? This fully updated edition of a bestselling book …

The case for undertaking policy analysis has been made by a number of scholars and
practitioners. However, there has been much less attention given to how to do policy …

As a function of the inherently political nature of health policy, there have long been calls for,
as well as guidance on, analysis of its political dimensions to inform practice. Yet there are …

The establishment of policy is key to the implementation of actions for health. We review the
nature of policy and the definition and directions of health policy. In doing so, we explicitly …

“This is the best textbook on health policy.” Prof Uta Lehmann, Director, School of Public
Health, University of Western Cape, South Africa “The third edition of this excellent text …

One of the most persistent puzzles in comparative public policy concerns the conditions
under which discontinuous policy change occurs. In Remaking Policy, Carolyn Hughes …