This paper examines the political dynamics of health sector reform in poor countries, through
a comparative study of pharmaceutical policy reform in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and the …

An analysis of the politics of Bangladesh pharmaceutical policy in the 1980s shows how
significant health policy reforms in developing countries depend on political conditions both …

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 …

Health financing reform is an inherently political process that alters the distribution of
entitlements, responsibilities and resources across the health sector and beyond. As a …

Health sector reform is on the policy agenda of national governments and international
agencies. This paper focuses on the policy process of health sector reform and, more …

This Reader is a boon to all those interested in health policy analysis. It offers much: a
historical overview of how the field developed; a description of what health policy is and how …

Any effort to improve health system performance must address the challenges of policy
implementation. This article examines one aspect of implementation—the politics of policy …

This article examines the recent pattern and progress of health care reform in affluent
democracies, focusing in particular on Britain, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands and the …

This article presents an analytic model for understanding the role of decision makers in
bringing about significant policy and institutional changes and in understanding how …

As a function of the inherently political nature of health policy, there have long been calls for,
as well as guidance on, analysis of its political dimensions to inform practice. Yet there are …