Health Promotion and the Policy Process

Health Promotion and the Policy Process presents theories on the policy process and discusses their significance in understanding of the constraints and issues of policymaking in health promotion.

Carole Clavier, Assistant professor, Department of political science, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada,Evelyne de Leeuw, Professor of Community Health Systems and Policy, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Australia

Carole Clavier is Assistant Professor in the Department of political science at UQAM - Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada. She studies public policies for health, in particular how health becomes a legitimate policy issue for urban and regional governments.

Evelyne de Leeuw is Chair of Community Health Systems and Policy at Deakin University, Australia, and the Editor-in-Chief of the Health Promotion International journal. She is globally renown for her research in the area of the WHO Healthy Cities Programme and continues to be senior evaluation advisor to the WHO European Region in this area. Currently she is developing further relations with Australian and Korean Healthy Cities networks and works with WHO on both Healthy Cities and Healthy Islands. Her publications span two decades of urban health development and policy.