BACKGROUND For more than 30 years policy action across sectors has been celebrated as a necessary and viable way to affect the social factors impacting on health. In particular intersectoral action on the social determinants of health is considered necessary to address social inequalities in health. However, despite growing support for intersectoral policymaking, implementation remains a challe...

BACKGROUND The complexity of malaria and public health policy responses presents social, financial, cultural, and institutional barriers to policymaking at multiple stages in the policy process. These barriers reduce the effectiveness of health policy in achieving national goals. METHODS We conducted a structured literature review to characterize malaria policy barriers, and we engaged stakeh...

Introduction: Health master plan is a tool designed to promote health and it is essential to define strategies, policies, and directions to health system programs. Therefore, the present study aimed to find obstacles to intersectoral planning and help it to implement. Methods: This was a qualitative and content analysis study (Mixed method). The study participants consisted of 12 managers an...

BACKGROUND There is sustained interest in public health circles in assessing the effects of policies on health and health inequalities. We report on the theory, methods and findings of a project which involved an appraisal of current Scottish policy with respect to its potential impacts on mental health and wellbeing. METHODS We developed a method of assessing the degree of alignment between ...

We highlight practical lessons from policy theories on how to promote equity through transformational changes in policymaking. Health, education and gender are at the heart of such agendas. Their advocates seek to: , reject a ‘neoliberal’ paradigm address social economic causes unfair inequalities, policymaking foster collaboration holistic government. However, they also report wide gap between...

In December 2011, Israel launched the National Program to Promote Active, Healthy Lifestyle, an inter-ministerial, intersectoral effort to address obesity and its contribution to the country's burden of chronic disease. This paper explores the National Program according to the "Health in All Policies" (HiAP) strategy for health governance, designed to engage social determinants of health and cu...

Information and communication technology (ICT) tools are known to facilitate communication and processing of information and sharing of knowledge by electronic means. In Nigeria, the lack of adequate capacity on the use of ICT by health sector policymakers constitutes a major impediment to the uptake of research evidence into the policymaking process. The objective of this study was to improve ...

Abstract The use of knowledge and evidence in policymaking is a recurrent topic research due to its scientific policy relevance. existing expansive body literature has been scrutinised various ways grasp the dimensions utilisation policymaking, although most this monosectoral focus based on very general criteria analysis that do not completely account for complexity making. This paper overcomes...

BACKGROUND Health is influenced by determinants beyond the traditional conception of the health sector. Increasingly, global actors are targeting policymakers at global and national levels to take an intersectoral approach to health issues. Multilateral organizations in the health and transport communities have published policy reports targeting policymakers to address the burden of road traffi...