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The European Journal of Public Health Advance Access originally published online on May 12, 2006
The European Journal of Public Health 2006 16(4):341-343; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckl068
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

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Learning from Policy Failure? Health Action Zones in England

Ken Judge1 and Linda Bauld2

1 Professor, Department of Public Health & Health Policy, University of Glasgow, Scotland
2 Senior Lecturer, Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow, Scotland

Correspondence: Professor Ken Judge, Department of Public Health & Health Policy, University of Glasgow, 1, Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8RZ, e-mail: k.judge@clinmed.gla.ac.uk

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It is widely recognized that the evidence base for reducing health inequalities is relatively weak. Although many countries have invested in major policy interventions that might be expected to have an impact on the distribution of health outcomes, policymakers and researchers have not always found effective ways of learning from major social initiatives. In an ideal world, interventions would be designed and implemented in a way that allowed robust scientific findings to be produced. But while attempts to move in that direction should continue, UK experiences also suggest that greater efforts have to be made to learn from new policies and initiatives that are often conceived and delivered with evaluation well down their list of objectives.

When New Labour was elected in 1997 it promoted the belief that comprehensive and purposive public action would make a real difference to the growing social injustices that were evident across all aspects of . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Health action zones
 

   Learning from experience
 

   How can we do better in future?
 
Paint a picture
Be selective
Look beyond the initiative
Maximize comparisons
Remember your limitations

   Conclusion
 

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