background advocacy coalitions play an increasingly prominent role within the global health landscape, linking actors and institutions to attract political attention and resources. this paper examines how coalitions negotiate among themselves and exercise hidden forms of power to produce policy on the basis of their beliefs and strategic interests.   methods this paper examines the beliefs...

Prior to the 2010 health care reforms, scholars often commented that health policy making in Congress was mired in political gridlock, that reforms were far more likely to fail than to succeed, and that the path forward was unclear. In light of recent events, new narratives are being advanced. In formulating these assessments, scholars of health politics tend to analyze individual major reform ...

foreign language education policy (flep) needs to be understood as part of broader educational policies and as situated within overarching social macro plans. in this paper, based on a conception of policy as distinct from goals and objectives, and with a view of the relevant literature, we will present some theoretical guidelines of setting and/or evaluating foreign language education policies...

breast-milk is the best food for infants and protects them from many diseases.in order to investigate the quality of breast-feeding promotion programms a survey was performed with the help of a questionnaire prepared by UNICEF ,titled as self assessment of maternity hospitals and other hospitals.the findings are as follow:none of the hospitals had a specific procedure to evaluate the efforts fo...

the united nations has a multiplex criminal policy to fight against genocide, judicial criminal policy being one of the aspects of this policy. rationally, justice requires that the guilty of genocidal acts be punished, the means of redress be provided for victims of such crimes and finally, the international peace and security be established. un judicial criminal policy regarding genocide is r...