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Book SynopsisâœThis is the best textbook on health policy.âProf Uta Lehmann, Director, School of Public Health, University of Western Cape, South Africa
âœThe third edition of this excellent text reinforces its position as the best text that applies public policy concepts and theories to health policy.âProf Martin Powell, Professor of Health and Social Policy, School of Social Policy, University of Birmingham, UK
âœThis book is essential reading for anyone wanting guidance on managing the politics of the health policy process.âProf Jeremy Shiffman, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Global Health Policy, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Described as the best book in its field, this extensively updated third edition of
Making Health Policy provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of health policy, its political nature and its processes at country and global levels. Written by a large and diver
Table of ContentsAuthor biographiesOverview of the Book1. Frameworks for health policy analysis
2. Power
3. Government and the State
4. Interest groups
5. Agenda setting
6. Policy implementation
7. Evidence, evaluation and policy
8. Values in health policy
9. Globalising health policy: cooperation and constraints
10. The relationships between national, regional and global health policymaking
11. Doing Policy Analysis
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