Public Health
Volume 119, Issue 3 , Pages 192-196, March 2005

Health policy analysis: a simple tool for policy makers

  • T. Collins

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Department of Global Health, School of Public Health and Health Services, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA

Received 26 August 2003; received in revised form 10 February 2004; accepted 23 March 2004.

Abstract 

Policy analysis is not an easy task. Its scope is broad and can include both the analysis of policy process and the analysis of policy content. This paper is concerned with the analysis of policy content and offers some practical guidance regarding how to analyse health policy and link it to health outcomes. An eight-step framework for policy analysis is proposed that public health policy makers and public health practitioners may find especially useful due to its simplicity.

Keywords:  Health policy, Policy analysis, Health outcomes

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PII: S0033-3506(04)00099-X

doi:10.1016/j.puhe.2004.03.006

Public Health
Volume 119, Issue 3 , Pages 192-196, March 2005

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