ORCID
- Sheaff, Rod: 0000-0002-7984-2627
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.
DOI
10.34172/ijhpm.2023.8066
Publication Date
2023-06-20
Publication Title
International Journal of Health Policy and Management
Volume
12
Embargo Period
2023-08-04
Organisational Unit
Peninsula Medical School
Recommended Citation
Sheaff, R. (2023) '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?"', International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 12. Available at: https://doi.org/10.34172/ijhpm.2023.8066
