The future of public health policymaking after COVID-19: a qualitative systematic review of lessons from Health in All Policies.

ABSTRACT: Background: 'Health in All Policies' (HiAP) describes the pursuit of health equity. It has five main elements: treat health as a human right; identify evidence of the 'social determinants' of health inequalities, recognise that most powers to affect health are not held by health departments, promote intersectoral policymaking and collaboration inside and outside of government, and generate political will. Studies describe its potential but bemoan a major implementation gap. Some HiAP scholars learn from policymaking research how to understand this gap, but the use of policy theories is patchy. In that context, our guiding research question is: How does HiAP research use policy theory to understand policymaking? It allows us to zoom-out to survey the field and zoom-in to ident

SUBMITTER: Cairney P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10445916 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature