Background Despite the significant benefits of palliative care (PC) services for cancer
patients, multiple challenges hinder the provision of PC services for these patients. Low-and …

There has been growing policy interest in social justice issues related to both health and
food. We sought to understand the state of knowledge on relationships between health …

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 …

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 …

Policy Points: Many barriers hamper advocacy for health equity, including the contemporary
economic zeitgeist, the biomedical health perspective, and difficulties cooperating across …

In her 2012 reconfirmation speech as WHO Director-General, Dr Margaret Chan
asserted:“universal coverage is the single most powerful concept that public health has to …

Despite a dramatic growth in SDH/HE (social determinants of health/health equity) public
policy research and demonstrated government interest in promoting equity in health …

This paper analyses the influence of several determinants on life expectancy at birth in 36
OECD countries over the 1999–2018 period. We utilized a cross-country fixed-effects …

Background Developed in the late 20th century, the health policy triangle (HPT) is a policy
analysis framework used and applied ubiquitously in the literature to analyse a large …

Abstract Background Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians experience persistent
health and social inequities. Chronic conditions, many of which are diet-related, are leading …