Local enactments of national health promotion policies: A Danish case
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Local enactments of national health promotion policies : A Danish case. / Wimmelmann, Camilla Lawaetz.
I: International Journal of Health Planning and Management, Bind 34, Nr. 1, 2019, s. e219-e229.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Local enactments of national health promotion policies
T2 - A Danish case
AU - Wimmelmann, Camilla Lawaetz
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Governments of welfare states are firmly committed to public health, resulting in a substantial number of public health policies. Given the multi-level structure of most welfare systems, the influence of a public health policy is related to its ability to spread geographically and move across organisational levels. Visiting, observing and interviewing 15 policy workers from 10 municipalities during a two-year period, this study investigated what happened to a Danish national health promotion policy as it was put into practice and managed in the Danish municipalities. The analysis reveals that the policy was practiced in at least five different ways: as an ideal, a cookbook, a tangible artefact, a creative deconstruction and a mapping. The various practices each enacted a different version of this policy, and some of these enactments brought unintended but valuable effects. Without recognising the concrete enactments and their locally experienced effects, our understanding of national public health policies risks becoming detached from praxis and unproductive. Public health policy-makers must pay methodological and analytical attention to the policies' multimodality and their concrete locally experienced effects.
AB - Governments of welfare states are firmly committed to public health, resulting in a substantial number of public health policies. Given the multi-level structure of most welfare systems, the influence of a public health policy is related to its ability to spread geographically and move across organisational levels. Visiting, observing and interviewing 15 policy workers from 10 municipalities during a two-year period, this study investigated what happened to a Danish national health promotion policy as it was put into practice and managed in the Danish municipalities. The analysis reveals that the policy was practiced in at least five different ways: as an ideal, a cookbook, a tangible artefact, a creative deconstruction and a mapping. The various practices each enacted a different version of this policy, and some of these enactments brought unintended but valuable effects. Without recognising the concrete enactments and their locally experienced effects, our understanding of national public health policies risks becoming detached from praxis and unproductive. Public health policy-makers must pay methodological and analytical attention to the policies' multimodality and their concrete locally experienced effects.
KW - Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
KW - Health Policy
KW - Implementation
KW - Enactments
KW - Policy workers
KW - Health promotion
KW - Guidelines
KW - Translation
KW - Local
U2 - 10.1002/hpm.2638
DO - 10.1002/hpm.2638
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 30198591
VL - 34
SP - e219-e229
JO - International Journal of Health Planning and Management
JF - International Journal of Health Planning and Management
SN - 0749-6753
IS - 1
ER -
ID: 170160722