International Journal of Health Policy and Management

International Journal of Health Policy and Management

Introduction to the Special Issue on “Analysing the Politics of Health Policy Change in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: The HPA Fellowship Programme 2017-2019”

Document Type : Editorial

Authors
Lucy Gilson 1, 2
Zubin Cyrus Shroff 3
Maylene Shung-King 1
1 Health Policy and Systems Division, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
2 Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
3 The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
10.34172/ijhpm.2021.43
Abstract
This special issue presents a set of seven Health Policy Analysis (HPA) papers that offer new perspectives on health policy decision-making and implementation. They present primary empirical work from four countries in Asia and Africa, as well as reviews of literature about a wider range of low- and middle-income country (LMIC) experience.
Keywords
Health Policy Analysis
Policy Process
Actor-Centric Analysis

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  1. Ghaffar A, Gilson L, Tomson G, Viergever R, Røttingen JA. Where is the policy in health policy and systems research agenda? Bull World Health Organ. 2016;94(4):306. doi:10.2471/BLT.15.156281
  2. Mills A. Health policy and systems research: defining the terrain; identifying the methods. Health Policy Plan. 2012;27(1):1-7. doi:10.1093/heapol/czr006
  3. Gilson L, Shroff Z and Orgill M. A health policy analysis reader: The politics of policy change in low- and middle-income countries. https://www.who.int/alliance-hpsr/resources/publications/Alliance-HPA-Reader-web.pdf.  Published 2018.
  4. Walt G, Shiffman J, Schneider H, Murray SF, Brugha R, Gilson L. ‘Doing’ health policy analysis: methodological and conceptual reflections and challenges. Health Policy Plan. 2008;23(5):308-317. doi:10.1093/heapol/czn024
  5. Gilson L, Raphaely N. The terrain of health policy analysis in low and middle income countries: A review of published literature 1994-2007. Health Policy Plan. 2008;23(5):294-307. doi:10.1093/heapol/czn019
  6. Guinaran RC, Alupias EB, Gilson L. The practice of power by regional managers in the implementation of an indigenous peoples health policy in the Philippines. Int J Health Policy Manag. 2021; In Press. doi:10.34172/IJHPM.2020.246
  7. Ramani S, Gilson L, Sivakami M, Gawde N. Sometimes resigned, sometimes conflicted, and mostly risk averse: primary care doctors in India as street level bureaucrats. Int J Health Policy Manag. 2021; In Press. doi:10.34172/IJHPM.2020.206
  8. Gilson L, Schneider H, Orgill M. Practice and power: a review and interpretive synthesis focused on the exercise of discretionary power in policy implementation by front-line providers and managers. Health Policy Plan. 2014;29(suppl_3):iii51-iii69.
  9. Derkyi-Kwarteng, ANC, Agyepong IA, Enyimayew N, Gilson L. A Narrative synthesis review of out-of-pocket payments for health services under insurance regimes: a policy implementation gap hindering universal health coverage in sub-Saharan Africa. Int J Health Policy Manag. 2021; In Press. doi:10.34172/IJHPM.2021.38
  10. Parashar R, Gawde N, Gilson L. Application of “actor interface analysis” to examine practices of power in health policy implementation: an interpretive synthesis and guiding steps. Int J Health Policy Manag. 2021; In Press. doi:10.34172/IJHPM.2020.191
  11. Long N. Development Sociology, Actor Perspectives. Abingdon, UK: Routledge; 2001.
  12. Okeyo I, Lehmann U, Schneider H. Policy adoption and the implementation woes of the intersectoral first 1000 days of childhood initiative, in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Int J Health Policy Manag. 2021; In Press. doi:10.34172/IJHPM.2020.173
  13. Mukuru M, Kiwanuka SN, Gilson L, Shung-King M, Ssengooba F. “The actor is policy”: application of elite theory to explore actors’ interests and power underlying maternal health policies in Uganda, 2000-2015. Int J Health Policy Manag. 2021; In Press. doi:10.34172/ijhpm.2020.230
  14. Whyle EB, Olivier J. Towards an explanation of the social value of health systems: an interpretive synthesis. Int J Health Policy Manag. 2021; In Press. doi:10.34172/IJHPM.2020.159
International Journal of Health Policy and Management
Volume 10, Special Issue on Analysing the Politics of Health Policy Change in LMICs
The HPA Fellowship Programme 2017-2019
July 2021
Pages 360-363

  • Received Date 13 April 2021
  • Accepted Date 14 April 2021
  • First Published Date 26 April 2021
  • Published Date 01 July 2021