Definition
Health policy refers to the governmental guidelines to translate decisions and plans into action to attain the national health goals, reflecting the population’s health needs.
Background of Health Policy
Health policy is a holistic charter for maintaining the primary health care requisites such as nutritious food and safe drinking water, individual’s access to quality health care services, and their cost, as well as national approach to any natural and man-made epidemic and its reversal. Thus, health policy has an unavoidable impact on an individual’s health and the health status of a nation. Throughout the time, many political, philosophical, and economic events set bedrocks for the formation of today’s health policies of individual countries (Navarro 2007; Immergut 2001; Gonzalez et al. 2009). The history of health policy is shaped and influenced by three perspectives: professional...
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Rana, J., Rahman, F., Bellanger, M. (2021). Health Policy. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_212-1
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