Researching Healthy Public Policy: Navigating The ‘ Black Box’ Means Thinking More About Power Comment On “ Developing A Framework For A Program Theory-Based Approach To Evaluating Policy Processes And Outcomes: Health In All Policies In South Australia”

Harris Patrick

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Journal: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH POLICY AND MANAGEMENT 2018 , Volume 7 , Number 9; Page(s) 874 To 876.

Paper: Researching Healthy Public Policy: Navigating The ‘ Black Box’ Means Thinking More About Power Comment On “ Developing A Framework For A Program Theory-Based Approach To Evaluating Policy Processes And Outcomes: Health In All Policies In South Australia”



Author(s): Harris Patrick*

* University of Sydney, School of Public Health, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Abstract: Lawless et al provide a valuable narrative of using program logic to develop an evaluation of Health in All Policies (HiAP) in South Australia. In this commentary I argue that the paper and analysis is an extremely useful example of navigating the supposed black box of policy-making. However the original makes the reader work too hard and is distracting from the main narrative of explaining the logic behind the HiAP approach in South Australia. My response covers avoiding epistemological traps and weighing up the pragmatics of collaborative policy research with more complex institutional policy issues like power.

Keyword(s): Health,Public Policy,Logic Models,Power



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References: Lawless ANGELA, et al. "DEVELOPING A FRAMEWORK FOR A PROGRAM THEORY-BASED APPROACH TO EVALUATING POLICY PROCESSES AND OUTCOMES: HEALTH IN ALL POLICIES IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH POLICY AND MANAGEMENT 7.6 (2018): 510-521. Labonte RONALD."FROM MID-LEVEL POLICY ANALYSIS TO MACRO-LEVEL POLITICAL ECONOMY COMMENT ON “DEVELOPING A FRAMEWORK FOR A PROGRAM THEORY-BASED APPROACH TO EVALUATING POLICY PROCESSES AND OUTCOMES: HEALTH IN ALL POLICIES IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA” (COMMENTARY)." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH POLICY AND MANAGEMENT 7.7 (2018): 656-658. De leeuw EVELYNE."POLICY, THEORY, AND EVALUATION: STOP MIXING THE FRUIT SALAD COMMENT ON “DEVELOPING A FRAMEWORK FOR A PROGRAM THEORY-BASED APPROACH TO EVALUATING POLICY PROCESSES AND OUTCOMES: HEALTH IN ALL POLICIES IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA” (COMMENTARY)." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH POLICY AND MANAGEMENT 7.8 (2018): 763-765.

Citations: ، همکاران. "Power, Process and Context in Theory Based Evaluation of Policy Implementation: A Response to Recent Commentaries." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH POLICY AND MANAGEMENT 8.1 (2019): 61-62.

+ Click to Cite. APA: Copy HARRIS, P. (2018). Researching Healthy Public Policy: Navigating the ‘ Black Box’ Means Thinking More About Power Comment on “ Developing a Framework for a Program Theory-Based Approach to Evaluating Policy Processes and Outcomes: Health in All Policies in South Australia”. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH POLICY AND MANAGEMENT, 7(9), 874-876. https://www.sid.ir/en/journal/ViewPaper.aspx?id=663587 Vancouver: Copy HARRIS PATRICK. Researching Healthy Public Policy: Navigating the ‘ Black Box’ Means Thinking More About Power Comment on “ Developing a Framework for a Program Theory-Based Approach to Evaluating Policy Processes and Outcomes: Health in All Policies in South Australia”. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH POLICY AND MANAGEMENT. 2018 [cited 2022May21];7(9):874-876. Available from: https://www.sid.ir/en/journal/ViewPaper.aspx?id=663587 IEEE: Copy HARRIS, P., 2018. Researching Healthy Public Policy: Navigating the ‘ Black Box’ Means Thinking More About Power Comment on “ Developing a Framework for a Program Theory-Based Approach to Evaluating Policy Processes and Outcomes: Health in All Policies in South Australia”. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH POLICY AND MANAGEMENT, [online] 7(9), pp.874-876. Available: https://www.sid.ir/en/journal/ViewPaper.aspx?id=663587.

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Researching Healthy Public Policy: Navigating The ‘ Black Box’ Means Thinking More About Power Comment On “ Developing A Framework For A Program Theory-Based Approach To Evaluating Policy Processes And Outcomes: Health In All Policies In South Australia”