After three decades of intensive debate in academic and activist circles, intersectionality has progressively been adopted public policies. Yet, the challenges its application are still largely unexplored. This article adopts a discursive approach to study process policy implementation an intersectionality-informed plan Madrid City Council, Spain. The analysis materials retrieved through interv...

health policy has been termed a ‘chameleon concept’, referring to its ability to take on different forms of disciplinarity as well as different roles and functions. this paper extends paton’s analysis by exploring the paradox of health policy as a field of academic inquiry—sitting across many of the boundaries of social science but also marginalised by them. it situates contemporary approaches ...

background in 2004, the health system in iran initiated an organizational reform aiming to increase the autonomy of teaching hospitals and make them more decentralized. the policy led to the formation of a board of trustees in each hospital and significant modifications in hospitals’ financing. since the reform aimed to improve its predecessor policy (implementation of hospital autonomy began i...