Health Policy: An Introduction to Process and Power

By Gill Walt

Book Overview

Providing an introduction to the way health policies are made and who influences them, this book combines a comparative analytical framework for understanding health policy with a wide range of examples of actual policy choices from North and South. In its exploration of power, the book focuses on the role of the state in the context of interest groups and other actors. It looks at the nature of political systems and the extent to which participation is encouraged. It also explores issues of global influence, asking how far the North shapes health policies in the South. In its exploration of processes, the book asks how issues get on to the policy agenda, what the processes of formulation are and who the influential actors are.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1856492648
• ISBN13: 9781856492645
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

A must have for every health care worker involved in policy

Walt's book is an excellent introduction to the complex field health policy. Her approach, describing power and processes, enables her to review health policy from many different angles. It describes how policy is made, who is involved, what their influence on policy is or could be, etc. Walt uses several cases to illustrate her views. If you are a health care worker, or a student in the field of health care policy, like me, this book is one to hang on to.