Can frameworks inform knowledge about health policy processes? Reviewing health policy papers on agenda setting and testing them against a specific priority-setting framework

Health Policy and Planning

Volumn 29, Issue , 2014, Pages iii6-iii22

  Walt, Gill ^a   Gilson, Lucy ^a,b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

National and global agenda setting; Policy analysis; Policy framework; Priority setting; Qualitative synthesis

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; SYNTHESIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THEORETICAL MODEL; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; MANAGEMENT; POLITICS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH PRIORITIES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POLICY MAKING; POLITICS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 84979096807     PISSN: 02681080     EISSN: 14602237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czu081     Document Type: Review

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