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Health Promotion and the Policy Process

Edited by Carole Clavier and Evelyne de Leeuw

Uniquely presents a theoretical understanding of policymaking processes in health promotion illustrated using case study examples, questionnaires and real-life experiences
International contributors provide a global perspective on the policymaking processes in health promotion

Health Promotion and the Policy Process

Edited by Carole Clavier and Evelyne de Leeuw

Description

Scholars and governments recognize the importance of policy development and implementation for population health, but there is a lack of systematic theoretical and conceptual development in the health field to address the issue. Health Promotion and the Policy Process is the first book to take an in-depth look at the theoretical advances in the political sciences, including discussing the significance of political economy and sociology, which so far have made little progress in health promotion development.

The book argues that focusing on how public policies work makes it possible to move beyond the more behavioural 'health education' approach, and make the transition from political statements to political strategies. The authors draw from a wide array of theories on the policy process in the fields of political science and political sociology to illuminate health promotion strategies and objectives. For example they discuss how Kingdon's Multiple Streams Model, Sabatier's Advocacy-Coalition Framework and policy network theories can contribute to greater health equity, healthy public policies and community development.

Through practical and critical tools, research, and experience-based discussion, Health Promotion and the Policy Process discusses how theories can be used to influence, evaluate, orient or implement health promotion interventions and policies. This book will be essential reading for health promoters who want to make a difference by influencing social determinants of health at the policy level including students, public health professionals, researchers, practitioners, decision makers and those concerned with applied policy research.

Health Promotion and the Policy Process

Edited by Carole Clavier and Evelyne de Leeuw

Table of Contents

1. Framing public policy in health promotion: ubiquitous, yet elusive, Carole Clavier and Evelyne de Leeuw
2. Policy change theories in health promotion research: a review, Evelyne de Leeuw and Eric Breton
3. Coalitions advocacy action and research for policy development, Coalitions advocacy action and research for policy development
4. Policy change and the social determinants of health, Toba Bryant
5. Actor-Network Theory: The governance of intersectoral initiatives, Louise Potvin and Carole Clavier
6. Emerging theoretical frameworks for global health governance, Evelyne de Leeuw, Belinda Townsend, Erik Martin, Catherine M. Jones, and Carole Clavier
7. Getting knowledge on 'wicked problems' in health promotion into action, David Hunter
8. Health policy networks: connecting the disconnected, Evelyne de Leeuw, Michael Keizer, and Marjan Hoeijmakers
9. Action theory and policy analysis: The ADEPT model, Alfred Rutten, Peter Gelius, and Karim Abu-Omar
10. Health in All Policies from international ideas to local implementation: policies, systems and organizations, Fran Baum, Angela Lawless, and Carmel Williams
11. Wrap-up: practice a new health political science, Carole Clavier and Evelyne de Leeuw

Health Promotion and the Policy Process

Edited by Carole Clavier and Evelyne de Leeuw

Author Information

Carole Clavier, Assistant professor, Department of political science, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada,Evelyne de Leeuw, Professor of Community Health Systems and Policy, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Australia

Carole Clavier is Assistant Professor in the Department of political science at UQAM - Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada. She studies public policies for health, in particular how health becomes a legitimate policy issue for urban and regional governments.

Evelyne de Leeuw is Chair of Community Health Systems and Policy at Deakin University, Australia, and the Editor-in-Chief of the Health Promotion International journal. She is globally renown for her research in the area of the WHO Healthy Cities Programme and continues to be senior evaluation advisor to the WHO European Region in this area. Currently she is developing further relations with Australian and Korean Healthy Cities networks and works with WHO on both Healthy Cities and Healthy Islands. Her publications span two decades of urban health development and policy.

Contributors:

Karim Abu-Omar
Institute of Sports Sciences and Sport, Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Fran Baum
South Australian Community Health Research Unit, Southgate Institute for Health, Society and Equity, Flinders University, Adelaide

Pierre Bergeron
Quebec National Institute for Public Health, Canada

Éric Breton
National Institute of Prevention and Health Education Chair in Health Promotion, EHESP School of Public Health, Rennes, France

Toba Bryant
Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Toronto, Canada

Carole Clavier
Department of Political Science, UQAM Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, Canada

Evelyne de Leeuw
Community Health Systems & Policy, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia

France Gagnon
TELUQ, Université du Québec, Quebec, Canada

Peter Gelius
Institute of Sports Sciences and Sport, Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Marjan Hoeijmakers
Academic Collaborative Centre for Public Health Limburg, Regional Public Health Service, Geleen, The Netherlands

David Hunter
Fuse Centre for Translational Research and Wolfson Research Institute, Durham University,
Durham, UK

Marie Jacques
Montreal Health and Social Services Agency, Canada

Catherine M. Jones
Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Montreal, Canada

Michael Keizer
Independent Consultant in Logistics for Global Health and Aid, Australia

Angela Lawless
South Australian Community Health Research Unit, Southgate Institute for Health, Society and Equity, Flinders University, Adelaide

Erik Martin
School of Medicine, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia

Louise Potvin
Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Montreal, Canada

Lucie Richard
Faculty of Nursing Science and Public Health Research Institute, University of Montreal, Canada

Alfred Rütten
Institute of Sports Sciences and Sport, Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Belinda Townsend
School of International and Political Studies, Deakin University, Burwood, Australia

Carmel Williams
Health in All Policies Unit, Department of Health and Ageing, Adelaide, Australia