Political analysis in public health: middle-range concepts to make sense of the politics of health
Political analysis in public health: middle-range concepts to make sense of the politics of health
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公共卫生中的政治分析：理解卫生政治的中层概念
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发表时间：
2018
影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
M. Mckee
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作者：
S. Greer;M. Bekker;N. Azzopardi;M. Mckee
公共卫生涉及政策、权力和公众，因此可能被认为是必然的政治问题。然而，这并不意味着政治分析和参与公共卫生的地位是没有争议的，长期以来一直有争论认为，讨论政治玷污了公共卫生的科学性。本文介绍了公共卫生政治学专刊，认为严格使用中间理论可以为我们分析公共卫生问题提供信息，避免政治化、过度抽象或过度具体的风险。它总结了论文中讨论的关键政治学概念：认识共同体、利益集团、倡导联盟、政党、制度、法家主义、话语和劳动的政治经济学。我们希望该丛书将为公共卫生界提供一些工具和方法，以便如何以适当的方式将公共卫生知识纳入决策领域。
Abstract Public health is about policy, power, and the public and as such might be thought necessarily political. That does not mean, however, that the place of political analysis and engagement in public health is uncontroversial, and there have been longstanding arguments that to discuss politics sullies the scientific nature of public health. This article, introducing a special issue on political science in public health, argues that rigorous use of middle-range theory can inform our analysis of public health problems and avoid the risks of politicization, excessive abstraction or excessive concreteness. It summarizes key political science concepts discussed in the papers: epistemic communities, interest groups, advocacy coalitions, political parties, institutions, legalism, discourse and the political economy of labour. We hope that the series will provide the public health community with some tools and methods for how to integrate public health knowledge into the sphere of decision making in an appropriate way.