Policymaking and health policymaking
What the chapter is about
This chapter introduces the subject of policymaking, with its associated challenges. It discusses making policy in a complex world, the relationships between policy, public policy and health policy. It outlines the stakeholders in health policy, and then considers the role of the private sector in health policy.
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