Healthy children, healthy country: the use of governing instruments in shifting the policy paradigm

The evidence on early childhood strongly suggests the need to shift child health policy from the current focus on social welfare to a socio-ecologically based approach. This paper reviews three governing instruments, exhortation, expenditure and regulation, that have been used by governments in Aust...

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Autor principal: Leggat, Sandra G
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2004
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Commentary
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC544963/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15679926
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1743-8462-1-4
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spelling pubmed-5449632005-01-26 Healthy children, healthy country: the use of governing instruments in shifting the policy paradigm Leggat, Sandra G Aust New Zealand Health Policy Commentary The evidence on early childhood strongly suggests the need to shift child health policy from the current focus on social welfare to a socio-ecologically based approach. This paper reviews three governing instruments, exhortation, expenditure and regulation, that have been used by governments in Australia and discusses the relative effectiveness of these approaches in shifting the child health policy paradigm. BioMed Central 2004-11-18 /pmc/articles/PMC544963/ /pubmed/15679926 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1743-8462-1-4 Text en Copyright © 2004 Leggat; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Healthy children, healthy country: the use of governing instruments in shifting the policy paradigm
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title_full Healthy children, healthy country: the use of governing instruments in shifting the policy paradigm
title_fullStr Healthy children, healthy country: the use of governing instruments in shifting the policy paradigm
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title_short Healthy children, healthy country: the use of governing instruments in shifting the policy paradigm
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC544963/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15679926
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1743-8462-1-4
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