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The European Journal of Public Health 2008 18(4):355-356; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckn043
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

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Politics and health: policy design and implementation are even more neglected than political values?

Ken Judge

School for Health, University of Bath

Correspondence: e-mail: K.F.Judge@bath.ac.uk

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It is surprising that political phenomena have not been more prominent in public-health research. But there can be no doubt that politics do matter. It is impossible, for example, to understand health inequalities policy in England in the past two decades without acknowledging the ideological differences between the Thatcher/Major and the Blair/Brown governments. Even within one party tradition there are also many examples of different Ministers wanting to try to put their personal imprint on policy. The . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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