National Water Resources Policy Issues

Water Resources Policy Issues in Illinois

Stakeholders Perspectives on the Success Drivers in Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme – Identifying Policy Translation Issues

Background Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), established by an Act of Parliament (Act 650), in 2003 and since replaced by Act 852 of 2012 remains, in African terms, unprecedented in terms of growth and coverage. As a result, the scheme has received praise for its associated legal reforms, clinical audit mechanisms and for serving as a hub for knowledge sharing and learning within...

Water resources management in the coastal zone: issues of sustainability

Water is one if not the controlling factor of regional development around the Mediterranean, and its political importance can hardly be exaggerated. While water budgets, supply and demand balances are in principle straight forward mass budget problems and amenable to quantitative analysis, the socio-economic framework that ultimately drives the water resources management introduces another laye...

Listening for prescriptions: a national consultation on pharmaceutical policy issues.

OBJECTIVES AND METHODS Pharmaceutical policy is an increasingly costly, essential and challenging component of health system management. We sought to identify priority pharmaceutical policy issues in Canada and to translate them into research priorities using key informant interviews, stakeholder surveys and a deliberative workshop. RESULTS WE FOUND CONSENSUS ON OVERARCHING POLICY GOALS: to p...

An Overview: the Issues and the National Alcohol Policy

It was a pleasure to be approached by the Institute of Criminology and asked to give an overview of this Conference and to link this to Australia's Health Policy on Alcohol. At the outset, it should be said that in endeavouring to give this brief overview, it is not possible to adequately present the substantial and diverse range of views intended by authors. Rather, my observations of the key ...