Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State: Health

Richard Freeman and Heinz Rothgang review comparative research on health policy in OECD countries in Oxford’s new Handbook of the Welfare State… See the ‘publications’ page elsewhere on this site…

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...