Description
Book SynopsisThis book unpacks policy and politics for health, equity, and wellbeing. With a critical realist lens, the book provides a methodology for sophisticated health focussed policy analysis which situates public health within complex political processes and systems. The application of that lens is demonstrated with insights from a decade of research into urban and regional planning.
Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction. - Part 1: Methodology matters. - Chapter 2: The positioning of health in public policy (with an urban flavour). - Chapter 3: Healthy Public Policy analysis switches on the floodlights. - Chapter 4: The steps in critical realist analysis. - Chapter 5: Drawing out the essentials for analysing public policy for health: the policy cube. - Part 2: Conducting a realist research program into health in urban and regional planning in Sydney, 2011-21. - Chapter 6: Health and land use planning in NSW, Australia. Research protocol. - Chapter 7: Empirical data. - Chapter 8: Theoretical comparison: from theories of the policy process to urban politics. - Part 3: Healthy Planning through the lens of governance and power. - Chapter 9: Governance. - Chapter 10: Power. - Chapter 11: Normative critique about healthy planning.
