Adapting public policy theory for public health research: A framework to understand the development of national policies on global health

Jones, Catherine M.; Clavier, Carole; Potvin, Louise

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.01.048

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“…It complements the growing body of literature on the adoption, diffusion, and change of global norms, ideologies and ideas in international development and health [ 82 – 84 ]. In particular, the paper looks at the place and agency of national actors [ 85 , 86 ] in a context marked by conflict and the professionalization of international development [ 87 ].Our analysis of how the PBF concept was diffused by organisations and individuals across FCAS settings is not necessarily exclusive to PBF and may link to wider trends in aid dependent countries. It has been documented in health financing [ 88 ] and in international development more generally [ 87 ].…”

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Context matters (but how and why?) A hypothesis-led literature review of performance based financing in fragile and conflict-affected health systems

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Performance-based financing (PBF) schemes have been expanding rapidly across low and middle income countries in the past decade, with considerable external financing from multilateral, bilateral and global health initiatives. Many of these countries have been fragile and conflict-affected (FCAS), but while the influence of context is acknowledged to be important to the operation of PBF, there has been little examination of how it affects adoption and implementation of PBF. This article lays out initial hypotheses about how FCAS contexts may influence the adoption, adaption, implementation and health system effects of PBF. These are then interrogated through a review of available grey and published literature (140 documents in total, covering 23 PBF schemes). We find that PBF has been more common in FCAS contexts, which were also more commonly early adopters. Very little explanation of the rationale for its adoption, in particular in relation with the contextual features, is given in programme documents. However, there are a number of factors which could explain this, including the greater role of external actors and donors, a greater openness to institutional reform, and lower levels of trust within the public system and between government and donors, all of which favour more contractual approaches. These suggest that rather than emerging despite fragility, conditions of fragility may favour the rapid emergence of PBF. We also document few emerging adaptations of PBF to humanitarian settings and limited evidence of health system effects which may be contextually driven, but these require more in-depth analysis. Another area meriting more study is the political economy of PBF and its diffusion across contexts.

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Context matters (but how and why?) A hypothesis-led literature review of performance based financing in fragile and conflict-affected health systems

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“…Drawing from a review of empirical literature in health and social sciences on the relationship between global and national level policy processes, we conceptualized this relationship as top-down with the global arena influencing national arenas -in particular through the circulation of policy ideas in GHG as one explanation of policy change in NPGH (Jones et al 2017a). Thus, our conceptual framework for this study, based on Real-Dato's synthetic framework (Real-Dato 2009), positioned external mechanisms of policy change as a directional force from the global arena on to the national one (Jones et al 2017a). We used literature on how ideas affect policy change to inform our selection and understanding of potential mechanisms by which the global arena influences NPGH policy arenas (Campbell 2002;Béland 2009).…”

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“…A comparison of the NPGH documents adopted in Norway and Switzerland showed that these policies target actors in the GHG system (Jones et al 2017b). NPGH arenas are multisectoral governing arrangements wherein actors from health, development, and foreign affairs sectors interact in policy action situations to make decisions about the government's work in global health and its governance (Jones et al 2017a). Various rules-in-use by actors for micro-processes (e.g.…”

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Policy processes sans frontières: interactions in transnational governance of global health

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National policy on global health (NPGH) arenas are multisectoral governing arrangements for cooperation between health, development, and foreign affairs sectors in government policy for global health governance. To explore the relationship between national and global processes for governing global health, this paper asks: in what forms of interaction between NPGH arenas and global health governance are learning and networking processes present? In a multiple case study of Norwegian and Swiss NPGH arenas, we collected data on intersectoral policy processes from semi-structured interviews with 33 informants in 2014-2015. Adapting Real-Dato's framework, we analyzed each case separately, producing monographs for comparing NPGH arenas. Analyzing both NPGH arenas for relational structures linking external resources to internal policy arena processes, we found five zones of interactions -including institutions, transgovernmental clubs, and connective forms. These interactions circulate ideas and soften arenas' boundaries. We argue that NPGH is characteristic of transnational governance of global health.

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“…Os trabalhos em países de baixa e média renda utilizaram, sobretudo, a noção de burocracia no nível da rua originalmente articulada pelos trabalhos da década de 1980, de Lipsky 27 . O trabalho de Jones et al 30 discute uma abordagem teórica para entendimento das políticas nacionais de saúde global. Essas políticas configuram-se como uma composição, em que existem atores do setor da saúde, do desenvolvimento social e de assuntos exteriores.…”

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Análise política em saúde: síntese das abordagens teórico-metodológicas

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RESUMO O estudo buscou objetivar, por meio de uma revisão integrativa, em âmbito nacional e internacional, realizada entre 2012 e 2017, o conjunto de abordagens teórico-metodológicas para análise política em saúde, analisando tendências da produção de pesquisas no que se refere à construção teórico-metodológica. A síntese identificou um conjunto heterogêneo de autores e enfoques teóricos; objetos de estudo; estratégias de investigação e aspectos concernentes ao exercício da reflexividade na produção do conhecimento. A maior parte dos trabalhos é oriunda da saúde coletiva, apoiada nas teorias de matrizes sociológicas e das ciências políticas, como estudos sobre a gênese de políticas de perspectiva bourdiesiana e estudos embasados no institucionalismo histórico. Os estudos empíricos utilizam como estratégia de pesquisa a combinação de análise documental com entrevista de informantes-chave, em sua maioria. Poucos autores realizam um retorno reflexivo sobre sua postura teórica frente às demais posições no interior do espaço de produção da análise política em saúde. O estudo poderá subsidiar um debate que permita analisar a adequação, a pertinência e o alcance das abordagens como forma de fortalecer a análise política em saúde, considerada recente no Brasil, cujo potencial de diálogo teórico precisa ser estabelecido entre as distintas tradições.

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Adapting public policy theory for public health research: A framework to understand the development of national policies on global health

Cited by 30 publications

References 63 publications

Context matters (but how and why?) A hypothesis-led literature review of performance based financing in fragile and conflict-affected health systems

Context matters (but how and why?) A hypothesis-led literature review of performance based financing in fragile and conflict-affected health systems

Policy processes sans frontières: interactions in transnational governance of global health

Análise política em saúde: síntese das abordagens teórico-metodológicas

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