@inbook{c7be61fc43a545dabde080af4415368e,
title = "Agenda setting in public health policy",
abstract = "Agenda setting is the issue-sorting phase in the public policy process, during which some concerns rise to the attention of policy makers while others remain neglected. Power - who holds it and how it is exercised - is a central concern in health agenda-setting research. The most influential model of the agenda-setting process postulates that issues rise to the attention of policy makers when problems, solutions, and political developments converge, creating windows of opportunity. This model challenges assumptions that health issues rise onto policy agendas solely through rational deliberation and careful consideration of evidence. {\textcopyright} 2008",
keywords = "Agenda setting, Cost-effectiveness analysis, DALYs, HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Policy transfer, Polio, Politics of public health, Priority setting, Public health policy, Social constructionism, Tuberculosis",
author = "J. Shiffman",
note = "Funding Information: Jeremy Shiffman is Associate Professor of Public Administration at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University in the United States. He is a political scientist by training. His research concerns the global and national political dynamics of public health, reproductive health, and population policy-making in poor countries. He has published in multiple journals, including The Lancet, American Journal of Public Health, Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Social Science and Medicine, Population and Development Review, Health Policy and Planning, Studies in Family Planning, and International Family Planning Perspectives. He has written on maternal mortality, family planning, reproductive rights, infectious disease control, and health sector reform. He has a particular interest in health policy agenda setting {\textendash} why some issues receive attention and others are neglected {\textendash} and is presently investigating agenda formation in global health. His research has been funded by the MacArthur Foundation, among other organizations. He has worked and conducted research in many developing countries, including Bangladesh, China, Honduras, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, and Nigeria. He received a Bachelor's Degree summa cum laude from Yale University in philosophy in 1985, a Master's Degree in international relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in 1988, and a PhD in political science from the University of Michigan in 1999. Copyright: Copyright 2013 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
year = "2008",
doi = "10.1016/B978-012373960-5.00232-X",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9780123739605",
pages = "55--61",
booktitle = "International Encyclopedia of Public Health",
publisher = "Elsevier Inc.",
}