Illuminating Policy for Health: Insights From a Decade of Researching Urban and Regional Planning (Palgrave Studies in Public Health Policy Research)

Acknowledgements
Funding
Praise for Illuminating Policy for Health
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Introduction
	References
Part I Methodology Matters
2 The Positioning of Health in Public Policy (with an Urban Flavour)
	Healthy Public Policy: A History
		Health in All Policies or Healthy Public Policy?
	Urban Healthy Public Policy
	Equity as the Goal for Healthy Public Policy: ‘Place’ as a Working Example
	Conclusion: Evidence ‘of Policy’
	References
3 Healthy Public Policy Analysis: Switching on the Floodlights
	Critical Realism
		What Does Reality Look like?
		The Task of Abstraction
	Switching on the Floodlights
	Summary
	References
4 The Steps in Critical Realist Analysis
	Theory and Research: Types and Uses
	The Steps
	The Goal: Adaptive Theory
	Conclusion
	References
5 Drawing Out the Essentials for Analysing Public Policy for Health
	New Institutionalism: A Brief History
	Essentialising Public [Health] Policy: The Policy Cube
	Conclusion
	References
Part II Section 1: Conducting a Realist Research Program into Health in Urban and Regional Planning in Australia, 2011–2021
6 Research Protocol
	Introduction
	Analytic Framework
	Program of Work and Methods
	Case-Study Design—Multiple Explanatory Case Studies
	Data Collection
	Documentary Analysis
	Interviews
	Summary
	References
7 Empirical Data
	Actors
	Structures
	Ideas
	Processes
	Conclusion
	References
8 Theoretical Comparison: From Theories of the Policy Process to Urban Politics
	A Brief Overview of the Theoretical Comparison Method
	Theories of the Policy Process
	Urban Politics: Governance and Power
		Normative Positioning: What ‘Should’ Happen
		Goals and Objectives Meet Governance Composition
	Summary
	References
Part II Section 2: Healthy Planning Through the Lens of Governance and Power
9 Governance
	Strategic Planning: Stuck in the New Public Management Rather Than Flexible Governance
	Environmental Assessments of Mega Infrastructure Projects: A Governance Failure
	Western Sydney City Deal: New Ideas Hobbled by Old Institutional Interests
	Conclusion
	References
10 Power
	The Absence of Health at the Legislative Level
	Strategic Planning: Challenging Path Dependencies
	Infrastructure: Symbols of Economic Power
	Environmental Assessments and Power
	Power and the Western Sydney City Deal
	Conclusion
	References
11 Normative Critique About Healthy Planning
	Legislate for a Health Focussed Objective with Points of Action Across the System
	Long-term and Strategic Perspective—Navigating Incrementalism is the Key
	Pick Your Battles: But Preferably Choose One with a Future (i.e. Sustainability)
	Infrastructure as a Determinant of Health
	EAs Need Fundamental Reform
	Governance Focussed on Health is the Future of Healthy Public Policy
	Conclusion: Ways Forward for the Healthy Planning Agenda
	References
Postscript
References
Index