Publications

This briefing note, by Paul Cairney of the University of Stirling, presents the importance of distinguishing between uncertainty and ambiguity in the strategies aimed to develop evidence-informed policy making.

This briefing note belongs to a series on the various models used in political science to represent public policy development processes.

This briefing note offers an initial version of a competency framework for public health actors to support their work on public policy.

This document explores the meanings of three expressions that are commonly used in public health, following the notion of keywords originally developed by Raymond Williams. The keywords presented here are linked to public policy, the social determinants of health and population health.

This briefing note is part of a series on the various models used in political science to represent public policy development processes.

This briefing note introduces the stages model in public policy, a model that allows one to present the complex process of public policy development.

This briefing note presents a kind of logic model which can be a helpful tool for reflecting on the effectiveness of healthy public policies.

This briefing note presents a structured process based on an analytical framework that reflects a public health perspective, while at the same time integrating other concerns that matter in the context of policy making.

This is a ten-page summary of the knowledge synthesis on nutrition labelling, produced to show an applied case of the NCCHPP’s proposed new method for synthesizing knowledge about public policies.