Roi in Public Health Policy: Supporting Decision Making

By Lesley Owen, Subhash Pokhrel, Kathryn Coyle

Book Overview

Contextualizes understanding of policy/decision problems
Emphasises ROI as a method to approach such problems
Offers strategies for engagement and communication for policy impacts, with special focus on tobacco cessation, alcohol use and physical activity
Provides policy makers with a post-mortem of decision problems they might face in real-life - with a view to improving their understanding as to how such problems could/should be approached using ROI concepts and tools
Demonstrates that public health decisions underpinned by robust economic analyses often need relevant strategies to engage with and communicate to wider stakeholders for policy impacts

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319688960
• ISBN13: 9783319688961
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"