REFLECTION

Reflection on contribution to own learning

Reflection on contribution to own learning

Policy domains are not 'given'; they are constructed. The practical meaning of 'health policy' famously varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. These variations are the product of entirely unsurprising considerations: of cultural understandings of what constitutes the concept of health; of administrative and historical conventions; of bureaucratic politics which in virtually all jurisdictions constantly reshape the 'turf' of state institutions.

A simple example of this point at work in practice can be provided by the nightmare of trying to construct accurate comparative cross-national estimates of health-care spending, where ...