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.
Authors
- Eirik Abildsnes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5454-8560)
- Kristine Vigsnes
- Harry Rutter (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9322-0656)
- Charlotte Kiland (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2994-8036)
Institutions
- University of Oslo (NO)
- University of Agder (NO)
- Viking Development Group (Norway) (NO)
- Kristiansand Municipality (NO)
- University of Bath (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Health Research Policy and Systems
- Published
- 2025-06-18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-025-01347-3
- Primary Topic
- Policy Transfer and Learning
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Norges Forskningsråd
- Universitetet i Agder