Understanding policy influence and the public health agenda
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Understanding policy influence and the public health agenda.
This paper analyses how the policy process is shaped by networks of influence. It reports on a study of health policy influence in Victoria, describing the theoretical framework and the methods used. Social network analysis, combined with interviews, was used to map the network's structure, identify important individuals and examine issues seen to be important and difficult. Which issues an ind...
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عنوان ژورنال: New South Wales Public Health Bulletin
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1034-7674
DOI: 10.1071/nb08063