TY - JOUR
T1 - 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?"
AU - Sheaff, Rod
PY - 2023/6/20
Y1 - 2023/6/20
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/context/pms-research/article/2036/viewcontent/Sheaff_20policy_20analysis_20comment_202023.pdf
U2 - 10.34172/ijhpm.2023.8066
DO - 10.34172/ijhpm.2023.8066
M3 - Article
SN - 2322-5939
VL - 12
JO - International Journal of Health Policy and Management
JF - International Journal of Health Policy and Management
IS - 0
ER -