Browsing School of Public Health by Subject "Policy implementation"
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Digital storytelling for policy impact: Perspectives from co-producing knowledge for food system governance in South Africa
(Bristol University Press, 2022)Post-positivist critics of the linear-rational understanding of the role of knowledge in decision making have long argued the need for the construction of socially robust knowledge to illuminate policy problems from a ... -
Mapping the existing body of health policy implementation research in lower income settings: what is covered and what are the gaps?
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2014)This article uses 85 peer-reviewed articles published between 1994 and 2009 to characterize and synthesize aspects of the health policy analysis literature focusing on policy implementation in low- and middle-income ... -
Opening the 'implementation black-box' of the user fee exemption policy for caesarean section in Benin: A realist evaluation
(Oxford University Press, 2020)To improve access to maternal health services, Benin introduced in 2009 a user fee exemption policy for caesarean sections. Similar to other low- and middle-income countries, its implementation showed mixed results. Our ... -
Practice and power: a review and interpretive synthesis focused on the exercise of discretionary power in policy implementation by front line providers and managers
(Oxford University Press, 2014)Tackling the implementation gap is a health policy concern in low- and middleincome countries (LMICs). Limited attention has so far been paid to the influence of power relations over this gap. This article presents, ... -
‘We had to manage what we had on hand, in whatever way we could’: Adaptive responses in policy for decentralized drug-resistant tuberculosis care in South Africa
(Oxford University Press, 2021)In 2011, the South African National TB Programme launched a policy of decentralized management of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) in order to expand the capacity of facilities to treat patients with DR-TB, minimize ...