Western European welfare states have recognized since the late 1990s that demographic trends force them to modernize their welfare arrangements and to raise labour participation as a condition of viable social policies. The policy of raising labour participation depends strongly on corporate HR-policies, and thus requires public leadership that wins the collaboration of corporations, employers’...

BACKGROUND Ethnic-minority health is a public health priority in Europe. This study compares strategies for tackling ethnic inequalities in health from two countries, Scotland and Belgium. METHODS We compared the countries using the Whitehead framework. Official policy documents were retrieved and reviewed and two databases related to immigrant health policies were also used. Ethnic inequalit...

Increasing the use of evidence in policy making means strengthening capacity on both the supply and demand sides of evidence production. However, little experience of strengthening the capacity of policy makers in low- and middle- income countries has been published to date. We describe the experiences of five projects (in Bangladesh, Gambia, India and Nigeria), where collaborative teams of res...

Introduction This paper focuses on efforts to bring about major changes in the way that organizations function. These efforts, which often involve altering many facets of organization including structures, policies, procedures, technologies, role design and cultural patterns are increasingly common as organizations adapt to accelerating rates of change in markets, technologies and competitive p...

Usually, public health actors do not have the power to make public policy decisions, and they represent only one voice among many: policy making is influenced by numerous groups and organizations with an interest in the outcome (Milio, 2001). It is therefore important to present the public health perspective while remaining aware of the other perspectives being expressed and how these may reson...

Latin American countries (among many others) face tremendous social problems. A strategy to address those problems is the key challenge for these polities. At this point, there is no shortage of (reasonably sound) technical advice on these matters by international organizations and other actors, yet progress is quite limited in many cases. Most recently, attention has turned to the role of inst...

This article reports a pilot study on the uses of technology to enable learning within a formal educational setting in a higher education institution and within a corporation. These two Norwegian cases were selected due to their commitment to technology-enabled learning, as expressed in policy and strategy documents. The aim was to investigate the commitment and actual use of information and co...