Making health policy / Kent Buse , Nicholas Mays, Manuela Colombini, Alec Fraser, Mishal Khan and Helen Walls.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Understanding public health seriesPublisher: Maidenhead : Open University Press, 2024Copyright date: 2024Edition: Third editionDescription: xviii, 324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780335251681 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • RA393
Summary: This revised edition of 'Making Health Policy' has been updated to cover and aid the analysis of significant political and health policy developments since the publication of the second edition in 2012. The new edition includes a greater diversity of expertise and perspectives and reflects the latest research and thinking about how to do health policy analysis, including a new focus on issues such as the role of values in health policy, policy making in response to climatic and environmental change, and the growing importance of social media in the policy process. The new edition also draws on the COVID-19 pandemic and its response to highlight key aspects of the health policy process.
List(s) this item appears in: Access to HE Unit: Health and Social Care Provision | Access to HE Unit: Introduction to Issues in Health and Social Care
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Previous edition: published as by Kent Buse, Nick Mays and Gill Walt. 2012.

At foot of cover title: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This revised edition of 'Making Health Policy' has been updated to cover and aid the analysis of significant political and health policy developments since the publication of the second edition in 2012. The new edition includes a greater diversity of expertise and perspectives and reflects the latest research and thinking about how to do health policy analysis, including a new focus on issues such as the role of values in health policy, policy making in response to climatic and environmental change, and the growing importance of social media in the policy process. The new edition also draws on the COVID-19 pandemic and its response to highlight key aspects of the health policy process.

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