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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/16931
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dc.contributor.authorLavis, JNen_US
dc.contributor.authorCentre for Health Economics and Policy Analysisen_US
dc.coverage.spatialCanadaen_US
dc.coverage.spatialGreat Britainen_US
dc.coverage.spatialCanadaen_US
dc.coverage.spatialGreat Britainen_US
dc.coverage.spatialCanadaen_US
dc.coverage.spatialGreat Britainen_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-04-14T14:41:52Z-
dc.date.available2015-04-14T14:41:52Z-
dc.date.issued1998en_US
dc.identifier.othercn98-14846en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.chepa.org/portals/0/pdf/98-06.pdfen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11375/16931-
dc.descriptionJohn Lavis.en_US
dc.descriptionBibliography: p. 25-28.en_US
dc.descriptionAlso available via World Wide Web.en_US
dc.description.abstractOver the past several decades, researchers have developed a vast body of knowledge about the social determinants of health. Drawing on scholarship about the role of ideas in policy-making, I developed a conceptual framework to identify institutional innovations or policy changes in Canada and the United Kingdom which may have come about, at least in part, because of the determinants-of-health synthesis and to determine the role that these ideas played in the politics associated with these developments. Elite interviews and reviews of primary and secondary sources suggested that the policy-relevant ideas embodied in the determinants-of-health synthesis played strategic, rather than instrumental, roles in any institutional innovation or policy change. The greater number of policy-making bodies in Canada's federal governance structure and the different relationships between the governing party and the groups with whom these ideas were associated at the time they were introduced to the political arena may explain why the cases in which these ideas did play a role were all drawn from Canada. Discordance between these ideas and specialized bureaucratic structures suggests that institutional innovations may provide (in the short run) the most likely role for these ideas and (in the long run) the most influential role.en_US
dc.format.extent30, 12 p.en_US
dc.publisherMcMaster Universityen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesCHEPA working paper series no. 98-06en_US
dc.subjectPolicy Makingen_US
dc.subjectPublic Policyen_US
dc.subjectPublic Policyen_US
dc.subjectHealth Statusen_US
dc.subjectHealth Statusen_US
dc.subjectOrganizational Innovationen_US
dc.subjectOrganizational Innovationen_US
dc.titleIdeas, policy learning and policy changeen_US
dc.typetexten_US
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