LibGuides: MHA-5004 V3: Week 7 Resources

Week 7 Resources

Corporations’ Use and Misuse of Evidence to Influence Health Policy: A Case Study of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxation
Fooks, G. J., Williams, S., Box, G., & Sacks, G. (2019). Corporations’ use and misuse of evidence to influence health policy: A case study of sugar-sweetened beverage taxation. Globalization and health, 15(1), 1-20.
This resource looks at how stakeholders can use analysis to misconstrue whether policy is working.
Global Policy Surveillance: Creating and Using Comparative National Data on Health Law and Policy
Kavanagh, M. M., Meier, B. M., Pillinger, M., Huffstetler, H., & Burris, S. (2020). Global policy surveillance: Creating and using comparative national data on health law and policy. American Journal of Public Health, 110(12), 1805–1810.
This resource discusses ways to analyze whether a health policy is working.

Longest's Health Policymaking in the United States, Seventh Edition> by Michael R. Meacham
ISBN: 9781640552111
Publication Date: 2020-12-12
Longest, B. B. (2021). Health policymaking in the United States (7th ed.). Health Administration Press.
In Chapter 9, policy analysis is examined in more detail.

Why Policies Fail: The Illusion of Services in the Opiod Epidemic
Strach, P., Zuber, K., & Perez-Chiques, E. (2020). Why policies fail: The illusion of services in the opiod epidemic. Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law, 45(2), 341–364.
This is an example of an analysis used to determine barriers, which tend to explain why policy is not accomplishing the goals initially set forth and how to evaluate policy.