'Doing' health policy analysis: methodological and conceptual reflections and challenges

Walt, G., Shiffman, J., Schneider, H., Murray, S. F., Brugha, R., & Gilson, L. (2008).

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 'Doing' health policy analysis: methodological and conceptual reflections and challenges.
Health Policy and Planning, 23, 308-317.

The case for undertaking policy analysis has been made by a number of scholars  and practitioners. However, there has been much less attention given to how to do policy analysis, what research designs, theories or methods best inform policy analysis.

This paper begins by looking at the health policy environment, and some of the challenges to researching this highly complex phenomenon. It focuses on research in middle and low income countries, drawing on some of the frameworks and theories,
methodologies and designs that can be used in health policy analysis, giving examples from recent studies.

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