Titlebook: Illuminating Policy for Health; Insights From a Deca Patrick Harris Book 2022 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclus

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The Positioning of Health in Public Policy (with an Urban Flavour)Anyone who has attended a cross-sectoral meeting will, at some point before, during or after that encounter, have questioned or been questioned about why they are there. This chapter provides answers to such questions by introducing the history of ‘healthy public policy’.

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Healthy Public Policy Analysis: Switching on the FloodlightsBefore starting any research enterprise, it is crucial to ask what type of knowledge we want to produce. This chapter introduces philosophical and methodological underpinnings of a critical social science approach to researching public health policy.

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Drawing Out the Essentials for Analysing Public Policy for Health This chapter covers the first two stages in the critical realist analytic steps introduced last chapter, ‘description’ and ‘analytic resolution’. At the same time, it acts as a bridge to shift focus from critical realism, via institutions, onto policy and the dynamics I then present as a Policy Cube.

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PowerThroughout the book I have increasingly referred to the back-and-forth struggle for power between rival discourse communities. This chapter uses the lens of power to explain how those struggles influenced the inclusion of health issues in planning policy.