Using a Stages Model to Reveal the Politics in the Health Policy Process Comment on "Modelling the Health Policy Process: One Size Fits All or Horses for Courses?"

Rod Sheaff*

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Abstract

Models of the health policy process have largely developed in isolation from political studies more widely. Of the models which Powell and Mannion’s editorial considers, a stages model of the policy process offers a framework for combining these specifically health-focused models with empirical findings and more general explanatory models of the policy process drawn from other political studies. This commentary uses a stages model to assemble a bricolage which combines some of these components. That identifies a further research task and suggests ways of revealing in more life-like ways the politics involved in the health policy process: that is, how that process channels wider, often conflicting, non-health interests, actors, policies, conflicts, ideologies and sources of power from outside the health system into health policy formation, and introduces non-rationality.
Original languageEnglish
Number of pages0
JournalInternational Journal of Health Policy and Management
Volume12
Issue number0
Early online date20 Jun 2023
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 20 Jun 2023

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