Policy guidance on threats to legislative interventions in public health: a realist synthesis
Open Access
- 10 April 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Public Health
- Vol. 11 (1) , 222
Abstract
Legislation is one of the most powerful weapons for improving population health and is often used by policy and decision makers. Little research exists to guide them as to whether legislation is feasible and/or will succeed. We aimed to produce a coherent and transferable evidence based framework of threats to legislative interventions to assist the decision making process and to test this through the 'case study' of legislation to ban smoking in cars carrying children.Keywords
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