From Local Action to Global Policy: A Comparative Policy Content Analysis of National Policies to Address Musculoskeletal Health to Inform Global Policy Development

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• Carmen Huckel Schneider ¹
• Sarika Parambath ¹
• James J. Young ^{2, 3}
• Swatee Jain ⁴
• Helen Slater ⁵
• Saurab Sharma ^{6, 7}
• Deborah Kopansky-Giles ^{3, 8}
• Lyn March ⁹
• Andrew M. Briggs ¹⁰

¹ Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Economics, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

² Center for Muscle and Joint Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

³ Department of Research, Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁴ Sydney Musculoskeletal, Bone & Joint Health Alliance, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

⁵ Curtin School of Allied Health, and Curtin enAble Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia

⁶ School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

⁷ Centre for Pain IMPACT, Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, NSW, Australia

⁸ Department of Family & Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁹ Florance and Cope Professorial Department of Rheumatology, Royal North Shore Hospital and Kolling Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

¹⁰ Curtin School of Allied Health, and enAble Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia

Abstract

Keywords

• Policy Content Analysis
• Global Policy
• Musculoskeletal Health
• Policy Learning