Executive summary Despite dramatic improvements in survival, nutrition, and education over
recent decades, today's children face an uncertain future. Climate change, ecological …

Policy analysis is an established discipline in the industrialized world, yet its application to
developing countries has been limited. The health sector in particular appears to have been …

The growing popularity of stakeholder analysis reflects an increasing recognition of how the
characteristics of stakeholders–individuals, groups and organizations–influence decision …

Why do some global health initiatives receive priority from international and national political
leaders whereas others receive little attention? To analyse this question we propose a …

Decentralization has long been advocated as a desirable process for improving health
systems. Nevertheless, we still lack a sufficient analytical framework for systematically …

This article provides the first ever review of literature analysing the health policy processes
of low and middle income countries (LMICs). Based on a systematic search of published …

Health Economics: An International Perspective is the only textbook to provide a truly
international, comparative treatment of health economics. Offering an analysis of health …

Worldwide, 892 million people practice open defecation, most of whom live in rural areas of
South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) is the most …

Over the past 10 years the poorest countries, especially in Africa, have struggled with
worsening economic conditions and reduced public finance for health services. Some …

This paper offers a critical review of the theoretical literature on the relationship between the
production of scientific knowledge and its use in policy formulation and implementation …