Background Global health policy is created largely through a collaborative process between development agencies and aid-recipient governments, yet it remains unclear whether governments retain ownership over the creation of policy in their own countries. An assessment of the power structure in this relationship and its influence over agenda-setting is thus the first step towards understanding w...

Research on agenda setting suggests awareness of issues, discussion particular issue topics, and identification issues current concern all tend to follow treatment those in the media. Such research also contends that media attention problems rises falls independent severity problem. This study asbestos examines both association between definition an appearance public policy agenda, corresponden...

What is the role of social media in political agenda setting? Digital platforms have reduced gatekeeping power traditional and, potentially, they increased capacity various...

With demand for health services continuing to grow as populations age and new technologies emerge to meet health needs, healthcare policy-makers are under constant pressure to set priorities, ie, to make choices about the health services that can and cannot be funded within available resources. In a recent paper, Smith et al apply an influential policy studies framework – Kingdon’s multiple str...