Fee-for-service remains a popular mode of paying for healthcare despite widespread
knowledge of its ill effects. This has resulted in a gap between policy knowledge …

Aims Research capacity strengthening (RCS) is crucial in enhancing healthcare outcomes,
particularly in low‐and middle‐income countries (LMICs), which face challenges due to …

Purpose The study compares how distinct mechanisms that connect pre-established policy
objectives to professionals' practices, and the health policy implementation context …

There is clearly a need to improve the use of more robust policy theory on health policy
analysis. Powell and Mannion in an editorial on the relationship between health policy …

This article analyses the potential implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for the
infrastructure of social services in Italy and Spain. Drawing from the policy capacity …

Complex policy processes, characterized by ambiguity, conflict and unanticipated effects,
have raised questions for positivist types of outcomes and forms of measurements in public …

The concept of policy capacity emerges as a pivotal approach for improving the efficacy and
flexibility of public policies. Despite its significance, ambiguity surrounds its definitions and …