Introduction to the Special Issue on "Analysing the Politics of Health Policy Change in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: The HPA Fellowship Programme 2017-2019"

Lucy Gilson; Zubin Cyrus Shroff; Maylene Shung-King

doi:10.34172/ijhpm.2021.43

Int J Health Policy Manag. 2021;10(7): 360-363.
doi: 10.34172/ijhpm.2021.43

PMID: 33949819
PMCID: PMC9056138

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Introduction to the Special Issue on “Analysing the Politics of Health Policy Change in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: The HPA Fellowship Programme 2017-2019”

Lucy Gilson ^1,2^* , Zubin Cyrus Shroff ³, Maylene Shung-King ¹

¹ Health Policy and Systems Division, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
² Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
³ The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.

*Corresponding Author: Email: , Email: lucy.gilson@uct.ac.za

Abstract

This special issue presents a set of seven Health Policy Analysis (HPA) papers that offer new perspectives on health policy decision-making and implementation. They present primary empirical work from four countries in Asia and Africa, as well as reviews of literature about a wider range of low- and middle-income country (LMIC) experience.

Keywords: Health Policy Analysis, Policy Process, Actor-Centric Analysis

Citation: Gilson L, Shroff ZC, Shung-King M. Introduction to the special issue on “analysing the politics of health policy change in low- and middle-income countries: The HPA Fellowship Programme 2017-2019.” Int J Health Policy Manag. 2021;x(x):x–x. doi:10.34172/ijhpm.2021.43