Making Health Policy: A Critical Introduction

Preface
Introduction
1. What is health policy?
Part 1 Rationality in policy making
2. Trying to achieve rational health policy: the search for appropriate knowledge and expertise
3. The competition for money and the limits of instrumental rationality
4. Power and influence in policy making: Policy communities and networks
5. The pressure of events: Disasters, inquiries and the dynamics of blame
Part 2 The limits of rationality in policy making
6. Identifying health and social problems: Competition between interest groups and claims making
7. How does the nature of modern democracy shape the formation of health policy?
8. Ideology and policy: legitimating, bounding and framing
9. The impact of the media on health policy making
Part 3 Conclusion
10. So how and why are health policies made? Some final comments
References