TY - JOUR ID - 3451 TI - Shaping Policy Change in Population Health: Policy Entrepreneurs, Ideas, and Institutions JO - International Journal of Health Policy and Management JA - IJHPM LA - en SN - AU - Béland, Daniel AU - Katapally, Tarun R. AD - Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada AD - Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Regina, Regina, SK, Canada Y1 - 2018 PY - 2018 VL - 7 IS - 5 SP - 369 EP - 373 KW - Population Health KW - Policy Change KW - Policy Entrepreneurs KW - Ideas KW - Institutions KW - Evidence DO - 10.15171/ijhpm.2017.143 N2 - Political realities and institutional structures are often ignored when gathering evidence to influence population health policies. If these policies are to be successful, social science literature on policy change should be integrated into the population health approach. In this contribution, drawing on the work of John W. Kingdon and related scholarship, we set out to examine how key components of the policy change literature could contribute towards the effective development of population health policies. Shaping policy change would require a realignment of the existing school of thought, where the contribution of population health seems to end at knowledge translation. Through our critical analysis of selected literature, we extend recommendations to advance a burgeoning discussion in adopting new approaches to successfully implement evidence-informed population health policies. UR - https://www.ijhpm.com/article_3451.html L1 - https://www.ijhpm.com/article_3451_7848a531b7589a69e063ad4eeb13e598.pdf ER -