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15 - Health Policy

from Part 2 - Contexts for Public Health Practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2023

By
Richard Lewis  and
Stephen Gillam
Edited by
Kirsteen Watson ,
Jan Yates  and
Stephen Gillam
Kirsteen Watson
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Jan Yates
Affiliation:
NHS England and NHS Improvement
Stephen Gillam
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
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Summary

This chapter focuses on the interplay of health policy and politics at a national level, and:

  • explores the process by which health policy is created and the context in which it is developed and influenced;

  • considers the interplay between policy and its implementation; and

  • offers a narrative of the evolution of national health policy and politics in England over the last 30 years.

Keywords

Health policypoliticscontextrationalnationaldecisionsanalysispolicy developmentimplementationevaluationeconomicsmanagementcommissioningreformgovernmentmarket
Type
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Essential Public Health
Theory and Practice
 , pp. 290 - 302
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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