Ingredients for Good Health Policy-Making: Incorporating Power and Politics into the Mix

Abstract

Eggs, flour, sugar, butter, baking soda, milk, and vanilla extract—all ingredients necessary to make a delicious cake. Similarly, good health policy-making can only be successfully pursued and understood by accounting for all of its basic ingredients, including the role of politics and power. Otherwise, the result is simply not good.

Keywords

• Health Policy
• Power
• Politics
• Policy Analysis
• Policy Theory