Date: 29/1, 10.15-12.00

Room: 419

Lecturer: Damon Barrett

SLIDES

In this lecture we will introduce a number of frameworks for undertaking policy analysis.

The policy cycle (the policy process)
The streams model (agenda setting)
The policy triangle (context, content, process, actors). You will be using this framework in your forthcoming workshop and assignment.

Our aim is not to make us experts in all of these, but to show the different frameworks and heuristics that can be used.

Reading

Buse K, Mays N, Walt G. (2012). Making health policy. 2^ndedition, Open University Press. e-book & online chapter 1 & 4 (These chapters are short, and intended for learners who are new to policy analysis)

Walt G Gilson L (1994) 'Reforming the health sector in developing countries: the central role of policy analysis'. Health policy and Planning, 9(4):353-370. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10139469/ (Introduces the policy triangle, which Buse et al rely on, and which we'll use in your first seminar and assignment)

Additional/optional

Exworthy, Mark (2008) Policy to tackle the social determinants of health: using conceptual models to understand the policy process, Health Policy and Planning, Volume 23, Issue 5, September 2008, pp.318–327 (Covers some of the same ground as the chapters in Buse et al, but also adds some new perspectives)