Illuminating Policy for Health - Insights From a Decade of Researching Urban and Regional Planning

This book unpacks policy and politics for health, equity, and wellbeing. With a critical realist lens, the book provides a methodology for sophisticated health focussed policy analysis which situates public health within complex political processes and systems. The application of that lens is demonstrated with insights from a decade of research into urban and regional planning.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part 1: Methodology matters.- Chapter 2: The positioning of health in public policy (with an urban flavour).- Chapter 3: Healthy Public Policy analysis switches on the floodlights.- Chapter 4: The steps in critical realist analysis.- Chapter 5: Drawing out the essentials for analysing public policy for health: the policy cube, etc.

About the author

Patrick Harris is Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the Centre for Health Equity Training, Research and Evaluation at UNSW, Sydney, Australia.

Product details

• Authors: Patrick Harris
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.10.2023
• EAN: 9783031132018
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3113201-8
• No. of pages: 201
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 12 mm x 210 mm
• Illustrations: XVII, 201 p. 7 illus., 5 illus. in color.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Public Health Policy Research
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Politics and business