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"

Lucy Gilson; Zubin Cyrus Shroff; Maylene Shung-King

doi:10.34172/ijhpm.2021.43

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"

Int J Health Policy Manag. 2021 Jul 1;10(7):360-363. doi: 10.34172/ijhpm.2021.43.

Authors

Lucy Gilson^{1

2}, Zubin Cyrus Shroff³, Maylene Shung-King¹

Affiliations

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.

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: Actor-Centric Analysis; Health Policy Analysis; Policy Process.

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Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Developing Countries*
Fellowships and Scholarships*
Health Policy
Humans
Policy Making
Politics

Grants and funding

001/WHO_/World Health Organization/International