BACKGROUND Despite concerted effort from government and partners, Nepal continues to have a high burden of under nutrition among children. Identifying opportunities to strengthen policy support for infant and young child feeding (IYCF) is a key component to improve child survival, growth and development. This study aims to explore policy support for IYCF and to identify the influential stakehol...

School self-evaluation is a low-stakes policy recently mandated in Ireland and while schools are becoming more consistent engaging this internal mode of evaluation, their engagement has not b...

BACKGROUND National policy on medical pluralism in India encourages the mainstreaming of AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha, and Homeopathy) systems and the revitalization of local health traditions (LHT). In Meghalaya state in the northeast, the main LHT is its indigenous tribal traditional medicine. This paper presents the perceptions of tribal medicine and of AYUSH systems among various po...

BACKGROUND In the 1980s, PHC implementation promoted the health care delivery and overall health status of the population in Iran. Identifying the crucial design and implementation aspects of the PHC program can highlight the way it was implemented in a difficult sociopolitical environment. Using a policy analysis approach unfolds the details of implementation in a context which was not overtly...