Local implementation of public health policies revealed by the COVID-19 crisis: the French case.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Improving health system performance depends on the quality of health policy implementation at the local level. However, in general, the attention of researchers is mainly directed towards issues of health policy design and evaluation rather than implementation at the local level. The management of the COVID-19 crisis, especially in Europe, has particularly highlighted the complexity of implementing health policies, decided at the national or supranational level, at the local level.

Methods

We conducted 23 semi-structured interviews with the main stakeholders in the management of the COVID-19 crisis in the second largest French region in order to identify the different actors and modes of coordination of the local implementation of health policies that this crisis

SUBMITTER: Meriade L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10288746 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature