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"

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.

[1]  L. Gilson,et al.  A Narrative Synthesis Review of Out-of-Pocket Payments for Health Services Under Insurance Regimes: A Policy Implementation Gap Hindering Universal Health Coverage in Sub-Saharan Africa , 2021, International journal of health policy and management.

[2]  L. Gilson,et al.  The Practice of Power by Regional Managers in the Implementation of an Indigenous Peoples Health Policy in the Philippines , 2020, International journal of health policy and management.

[3]  F. Ssengooba,et al.  "The Actor Is Policy": Application of Elite Theory to Explore Actors’ Interests and Power Underlying Maternal Health Policies in Uganda, 2000-2015 , 2020, International journal of health policy and management.

[4]  Sudha Ramani,et al.  Sometimes Resigned, Sometimes Conflicted, and Mostly Risk Averse: Primary Care Doctors in India as Street Level Bureaucrats , 2020, International journal of health policy and management.

[5]  L. Gilson,et al.  Application of "Actor Interface Analysis" to Examine Practices of Power in Health Policy Implementation: An Interpretive Synthesis and Guiding Steps , 2020, International journal of health policy and management.

[6]  U. Lehmann,et al.  Policy Adoption and the Implementation Woes of the Intersectoral First 1000 Days of Childhood Initiative, In the Western Cape Province of South Africa , 2020, International journal of health policy and management.

[7]  Jill Olivier,et al.  Towards an Explanation of the Social Value of Health Systems: An Interpretive Synthesis , 2020, International journal of health policy and management.

[8]  A. Ghaffar,et al.  Where is the policy in health policy and systems research agenda? , 2015, Bulletin of the World Health Organization.

[9]  L. Gilson,et al.  Practice and power: a review and interpretive synthesis focused on the exercise of discretionary power in policy implementation by front-line providers and managers. , 2014, Health policy and planning.

[10]  S. Murray,et al.  ‘Doing’ health policy analysis: methodological and conceptual reflections and challenges , 2008, Health policy and planning.

[11]  L. Gilson,et al.  The terrain of health policy analysis in low and middle income countries: a review of published literature 1994–2007 , 2008, Health policy and planning.

[12]  N. Long.  Development Sociology: Actor Perspectives , 2001 .

[13]  A. Mills.  Health policy and systems research: defining the terrain; identifying the methods. , 2012, Health policy and planning.