Required text and readings

There is one required text for this course:

Gill Walt, Health policy: an introduction to process and power. Zed Books 1994.

In addition, several articles are included in the reader which you will need to purchase:

  1. Reich M (1995) The politics of agenda setting in international health: child health versus adult health in developing countries. Journal of International Development 7; 489 - 502.
  2. Taylor C, Cutts F & Taylor M (1997) Ethical dilemmas in current planning for polio eradication. American Journal of Public Health, 87; 922 -916.
  3. Okuonzi S and Macrae J (1995). Whose policy is it anyway? International and national influences on health policy development in Uganda. Health Policy and Planning, 10(2):122-32.
  4. WHO/EURO (1997). The Process of Implementing Reform (chapter 7). in European Health Care Reform: analysis of current strategies. WHO Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen.
  5. Parker, R (2000). "Administering the epidemic: HIV/AIDS policy, models of development, and international health. in Linda Whiteford and Lenore Manderson (eds.), Global Health Policy, Local Realities. Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder and London, 2000.
  6. Hiscock J (1995) Looking a gift horse in the mouth: the shifting power between the Ministry of Health and donors in Ghana. Health Policy and Planning 10; Supplement 28 - 40.
  7. Greenough P (1995) Intimidation, coercion and resistance in the final stages of the South Asian smallpox eradication campaign, 1973 - 1975 Social Science and Medicine, 41; 633 - 645.
  8. Chowdhury Z with Chetley A (1996) Essential drugs in Bangladesh: the ups and downs of policy. The Ecologist; 26; 27 - 33.
  9. Natsios A (1996)."Illusions of Influence: The CNN Effect in Complex Emergencies," From Massacres to Genocide: The Media, Public Policy and Humanitarian Crisis, Robert Rotberg and Thomas Weiss, (eds.), The Brookings Institution, Washington DC.

 

 

PREASSIGNMENT:

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You should read the first 3 chapters of Gill Walt's book, and come to class prepared to answer all of the following questions (names will be drawn out of a hat):

1. What are the three main levels of policy analysis?  At what level have you been working, or which level is most relevant to the work you will be doing?

2. How has the role of the state changed in your country recently?  To help you analyse this, make a list of the public and private sector involvements in the health sector in 1980 and 1995, and compare the lists.  Has there been any change?  Who owns the hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, training institutions?  Is the private sector involved in the provision of health care or in special services such as cleaning or catering?

3. Define and be able to give one example of each of the four exogenous factors which describe the context in which policymaking occurs.

4. Many people, even in those living in liberal democracies where they can vote for their representatives to government,  feel that policymaking is actually in the hands of small groups of elites (based on political, industrial, military, social, or land-owning positions.  To what extent is your own country's policymaking profile characterized by groups of elites?  What characterizes them or sets them apart from the general population? 

 

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