Indicating Mental Health in Scotland
Source: EC integrated project 028848-2 KNOWandPOL
Health
This paper reviews comparative research on health policy in OECD countries, outlining the origins and development of health policy in the modern state and pointing to the different ways that development has been understood by welfare state scholars.
Health care systems and the problem of classification
Classification is integral to comparison. The aim of this paper is to reflect on the nature, purpose and limits of classification in comparative health policy.
Doctoral students win awards
Oliver Escobar-Rodriguez has been awarded a Principal’s Career Development Scholarship and will work on citizens’ experience of participation in policy making; Victoria Loughlan has an ESRC studentship to work on the construction of space in...Edinburgh-Bremen-Milan workshop
Doctoral students and research fellows working on health policy in Edinburgh, Bremen and Milan met in Bremen for a workshop on Friday and Saturday, 18-19 June 2010… Doctoral students and research fellows working on health policy in Edinburgh, Bremen and Milan...Knowledge and Policy: mental health in Scotland and in Europe
KNOWandPOL is an EC-funded integrated project on the role of knowledge in policy making in European countries. Our case study is concerned with mental health policy in Scotland: for more, click on the header above. This study aims to identify and understand the...Hanse Fellowship, Bremen
An extended fellowship at the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study has made it possible to work with a comparative health policy group at the University of Bremen. See the write-up on <a...Classifying health systems
Richard Freeman and Lorraine Frisina’s ‘Health care systems and the problem of classification’ has now appeared in the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis… Classification is integral to comparison. The aim of this paper is to reflect on the...Recovering Mental Health in Scotland: ‘recovery’ from social movement to policy goal
Source: EC integrated project 028848-2 KNOWandPOL linkPolicy as Practice
What is it that policy makers do when they make policy? What kinds of activity does policy making entail? This seminar series hosted by the Universities of Birmingham and Edinburgh, with APSE (the Association for Public Service Excellence), was funded by ESRC. So what...Policy as Practice at IPA 2010
Last year’s Interpretive Policy Analysis conference (Grenoble, 23-25 June 2010) included two panels on ‘Policy as Practice’… We know little of the way policy-makers work, of what they actually do when they make policy. Our starting point in...PIKEN
The Policy Impact and Knowledge Exchange Network (PIKEN) brought together early career researchers from local and national government, the third sector and universities across Scotland in a series of meetings in 2009-2010 to explore the relationship between research...What is translation?
A new paper in Evidence and Policy discusses this key concept in knowledge transfer and exchange… What is ‘translation’, and how might it help us think differently about knowledge transfer and exchange? The purpose of this article is to set out, for...New from Yale UP
Comparative Studies and the Politics of Modern Medical Care, edited by Ted Marmor, Richard Freeman and Kieke Okma, discusses recent patterns of health reform in Europe and North America… This new collection explores recent patterns in health care regulation,...KNOWandPOL reports
KNOWandPOL reports Reports on our study of WHO Europe’s initiatives in mental health policy are now complete. A separate document on the role of international organizations in regulation compares WHO’s work with OECD’s PISA programme in...Towards a Mentally Flourishing Scotland: consultation process as public action
Source: EC integrated project 028848-2 KNOWandPOL linkEllen Stewart
studied young adults’ participation in health care decision making in Scotland, while also working on a government-funded evaluation of elections to Health Boards.Alistair Hunter
wrote about the return migration of workers from Algeria and Senegal who have settled in Paris. He was then Research Fellow on a project investigating the role of the social sciences in shaping public understanding of immigrant integration.Scotland, Mental Health and WHO
Source: EC integrated project 028848-2 KNOWandPOL linkarticulation, assemblage, alignment: the project in/of EU governance
The project, and by extension the programme, is a key instrument of European governance. The function of the project is to draw heterogeneous sets of actors together, to generate connections between them, to articulate them.