Raising complex public health challenges on local government agendas: a Norwegian case study

This article contributes knowledge of how complex public health problems receive attention and how these issues are shaped and defined, placed on governmental agendas, and paired with solutions. The article contributes important insights for understanding policy responses to complex public health problems and how policy entrepreneurs strategically manoeuvre within the streams of policy development to create windows of opportunity and maintain agenda control. This is important knowledge to support agenda setting for public health challenges and to realize policies to improve public health.

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Health Research Policy and Systems
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2025-06-18
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https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-025-01347-3
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Policy Transfer and Learning
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Raising complex public health challenges on local government agendas: a Norwegian case study

Eirik Abildsnes, Kristine Vigsnes, Harry Rutter, Charlotte Kiland
Health Research Policy and Systems
Policy Transfer and Learning
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Raising complex public health challenges on local government agendas: a Norwegian case study

Eirik Abildsnes, Kristine Vigsnes, Harry Rutter, Charlotte Kiland
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Abstract

This article contributes knowledge of how complex public health problems receive attention and how these issues are shaped and defined, placed on governmental agendas, and paired with solutions. The article contributes important insights for understanding policy responses to complex public health problems and how policy entrepreneurs strategically manoeuvre within the streams of policy development to create windows of opportunity and maintain agenda control. This is important knowledge to support agenda setting for public health challenges and to realize policies to improve public health.

Health Research Policy and SystemsVol. 23(1)
University of Oslo (NO), University of Agder (NO), Viking Development Group (Norway) (NO), Kristiansand Municipality (NO), University of Bath (GB)
Norges Forskningsråd, Universitetet i Agder
Reduced inequalities
Openalex Percentile: Top 83%
Policy Transfer and Learning
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