Policy Points Integrated care is best understood as an emergent set of practices intrinsically
shaped by contextual factors, and not as a single intervention to achieve predetermined …

Context: An evidence base that addresses issues of complexity and context is urgently
needed for large‐system transformation (LST) and health care reform. Fundamental …

Most policy-relevant work on climate change in the social sciences either analyzes costs
and benefits of particular policy options against important but often narrow sets of objectives …

The second edition of this highly regarded book provides a concise and accessible
introduction to the principles and elements of policy design in contemporary governance. It …

This article classifies 30 OECD healthcare systems according to a deductively generated
typology by Rothgang and Wendt [1]. This typology distinguishes three core dimensions of …

In the 2000s, governments in the UK, particularly in England, developed a system of
governance of public services that combined targets with an element of terror. This has …

The Divided Welfare State is the first comprehensive political analysis of America's
distinctive system of public and private social benefits. Everyone knows that the American …

In much of the Western world, and particularly in Europe, there is a widespread perception of
a wholesale 'retreat'from multiculturalism. Governments that once embraced a multicultural …

Context: During the 1980s and 1990s, innovations in the organization, funding, and delivery
of primary health care in Canada were at the periphery of the system rather than at its core …

This line of reasoning—focusing on human capability—contrasts with the idea that health
care is special because of its impact on equality of opportunity. 6 It also differs from the …