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The International Journal of Social... Nov 2020
Topics: Health Policy; Humans; Mental Health; Public Health; Public Policy; Violence
PubMed: 32223492
DOI: 10.1177/0020764020915236 -
Indian Journal of Medical Ethics 2017On March 15, 2017 the union cabinet approved the new National Health Policy. The next day a 28-page policy text and an accompanying 13-page situational analysis were...
On March 15, 2017 the union cabinet approved the new National Health Policy. The next day a 28-page policy text and an accompanying 13-page situational analysis were placed in Parliament and in the public domain. To have, at all times, a health policy in place that shows a road map on how a nation would show "progressive realization" of health as a basic human right is an obligation under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. This is an international treaty adopted in 1976, to which India became a signatory in 1979, and this was one of the catalysts for the adoption of the first National Health Policy in 1983. The immediate political backdrop to the articulation of a National Health Policy 2017 (NHP 2017), replacing the 2002 policy, is that a new health policy and a national health assurance plan were both part of the BJP's electoral manifesto. It has taken close to 34 months after the government took office, and some 26 months after the draft was circulated for public discussion, to finally approve the policy. This is reflective of the considerable contestation and contradictory pressures, often almost evenly matched, that went into finalising this policy.
Topics: Health Policy; Human Rights; Humans; India; Politics; Public Health; Public Policy
PubMed: 28433965
DOI: 10.20529/ijme.2017.018 -
Canadian Journal of Public Health =... Jun 2023Our aim was to synthesize published scholarship that applies policy diffusion-a theory of the policy process that considers the interdependence of government-level... (Review)
Review
OBJECTIVES
Our aim was to synthesize published scholarship that applies policy diffusion-a theory of the policy process that considers the interdependence of government-level public health policy choices. We paid particular attention to the role of scientific evidence in the diffusion process, and to identifying challenges and gaps towards strengthening the intersection of public health, public policy, and political science.
METHODS
We systematically searched 17 electronic academic databases. We included English-language, peer-reviewed articles published between 2000 and 2021. For each article, we extracted the following information: public health policy domain, geographic setting, diffusion directions and mechanisms, the role of scientific evidence in the diffusion process, and author research discipline.
SYNTHESIS
We identified 39 peer-reviewed, primary research articles. Anti-smoking and tobacco control policies in the United States (n = 9/39) were the most common policy domain and geographic context examined; comparatively fewer studies examined policy diffusion in the Canadian context (n = 4/39). In terms of how policies diffuse, we found evidence of five diffusion mechanisms (learning, emulation, competition, coercion, and social contagion), which could moreover be conditional on internal government characteristics. The role of scientific evidence in the diffusion process was unclear, as only five articles discussed this. Policy diffusion theory was primarily used by public policy and political science scholars (n = 19/39), with comparatively fewer interdisciplinary authorship teams (n = 6/39).
CONCLUSION
Policy diffusion theory provides important insights into the intergovernmental factors that influence public health policy decisions, thus helping to expand our conceptualization of evidence-informed public health. Despite this, policy diffusion research in the Canadian public health context is limited.
Topics: Humans; Canada; Health Policy; Policy Making; Public Health; Public Policy; United States
PubMed: 36944893
DOI: 10.17269/s41997-023-00752-x -
BMJ Global Health Apr 2021
Topics: Health Policy; Humans; Public Policy; Social Environment
PubMed: 33827798
DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2021-005261 -
Cadernos de Saude Publica 2022This study aims to conduct a search of public-policy instruments seeking explicit references to subsequent adolescent pregnancy, as well as to discern what kinds of... (Review)
Review
This study aims to conduct a search of public-policy instruments seeking explicit references to subsequent adolescent pregnancy, as well as to discern what kinds of actions have been proposed as part of the international and national agendas to facilitate subsequent adolescent pregnancy prevention and care. During June 2021, we used an integrative review to search and to analyze national and international public policy instruments along with other documents related to subsequent adolescent pregnancy. We observed, for each, the presence of statements on subsequent adolescent pregnancy. The research team was then divided into triads to discuss and to classify each reference under one of the following categories: (a) a symbolic statement, that is, an intention not implying a specific action but rather presenting a vision for the future; (b) a substantive-material statement concerning an action intended to solve a problem; and (c) a procedural-material statement indicating specific actions, processes, budgets, and actors. We analyzed a total of 135 public-policy documents: 102 in Mexico and 33 internationally. Only four national and six international documents contained either symbolic or substantive-material references to the subject of interest and only one specified a procedural-material statement. The prevention and care of subsequent adolescent pregnancy are addressed only secondarily on the public agendas. Only a minimal number of actions comprise specific and standardized measures to prevent subsequent adolescent pregnancy according to the different actors involved. Designing a greater number of procedural-material policies will help to reduce morbidity and mortality in the mother-child binomial and promote a comprehensive development of this population.
Topics: Adolescent; Brazil; Female; Health Policy; Humans; Mexico; Pregnancy; Pregnancy in Adolescence; Public Policy
PubMed: 36169509
DOI: 10.1590/0102-311XEN025922 -
European Journal of Public Health Oct 2017If public health is the field that diagnoses and strives to cure social ills, then understanding political causes and cures for health problems should be an intrinsic...
If public health is the field that diagnoses and strives to cure social ills, then understanding political causes and cures for health problems should be an intrinsic part of the field. In this article, we argue that there is no support for the simple and common, implicit model of politics in which scientific evidence plus political will produces healthy policies. Efforts to improve the translation of evidence into policy such as knowledge transfer work only under certain circumstances. These circumstances are frequently political, and to be understood through systematic inquiry into basic features of the political economy such as institutions, partisanship and the organization of labour markets.
Topics: Europe; Evidence-Based Medicine; Health Policy; Humans; Policy Making; Politics; Public Health; Public Policy
PubMed: 29028231
DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckx152 -
International Journal of Health Policy... 2023A range of conceptual models for understanding the policy process have been applied to the health policy process, largely in particular sub areas or policy domains such...
A range of conceptual models for understanding the policy process have been applied to the health policy process, largely in particular sub areas or policy domains such as public health. However, these contributions appear to offer different rationales and present different frameworks for understanding the policy process. This Editorial critically examines articles that explore the health policy process with models from wider public policy and from health policy. It can be seen that very few of the wider models have been applied in studies of the health policy process. Conversely, some models feature in studies of the health policy process, but not in the wider policy process literature, which suggests that literature on the health policy process is semi-detached from the wider policy process literature. There seem to be two very different future research directions: focusing on 'home grown' models, or taking greater account of the wider policy process literature. Does 'one size fit all' or is it 'horses for courses'?
Topics: Health Policy; Models, Theoretical; Public Policy
PubMed: 37579456
DOI: 10.34172/ijhpm.2022.7580 -
Annals of Emergency Medicine Jul 2017
Topics: Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems; Emergency Medicine; Evidence-Based Practice; Health Policy; Humans; Smoke-Free Policy; Smoking Cessation; Societies, Medical; Taxes; Tobacco Products
PubMed: 28645395
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2017.03.046 -
Gaceta Sanitaria 2021
Topics: Health Policy; Humans; Pandemics; Policy Making; Public Health; Public Policy
PubMed: 33239187
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaceta.2020.09.009 -
The Australian Journal of Rural Health Feb 2021
Topics: Delivery of Health Care; Health Policy; Humans; Leadership; Public Health; Public Policy; Speech
PubMed: 33631051
DOI: 10.1111/ajr.12729