When transport policy becomes health policy: A documentary analysis of active travel policy in England

2018 ◽  
Vol 72 ◽  
pp. 13-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Bloyce ◽  
Chris White
Keyword(s):  
Health Policy ◽  
Active Travel ◽  
Transport Policy ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
Travel Policy

scholarly journals Investigation of Employee Related Airport Ground Access Strategies from a Post-COVID Perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 036119812110332
Author(s):  
Oguzhan Yilmaz ◽  
Matthew Frost ◽  
Andrew Timmis ◽  
Stephen Ison
Keyword(s):  
Public Transport ◽  
Active Travel ◽  
Strategy Development ◽  
Sustainable Transport ◽  
Car Sharing ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
The Future ◽  
Private Car ◽  
Policy Measures ◽  
Access Policies

Until recently, addressing the environmental externalities associated with the use of the private car and single occupancy vehicles has been the focus of the airport ground access policies worldwide. However, with the emerging unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, which have already changed the way we live, work, and travel, encouraging a change in commuter behavior has become even more important. This has necessitated that existing strategies be reconsidered in favor of adapting to a highly uncertain “COVID-19 world.” Historically, there has been a dearth of literature relating to airport employees’ ground access even though as a group employees represent an important segment of airport users with complex access requirements. This paper therefore focuses on airport employee related airport ground access strategies considering an emerging understanding of the future impacts of COVID-19 on global air travel. Pre-COVID strategies are investigated by conducting a documentary analysis of the most recent ground access strategies of 27 UK airports. The findings reveal that airport ground access strategies were mainly focused on setting targets and producing policy measures in favor of reducing car use and increasing the use of more sustainable transport modes including public transport, car sharing, and active travel (walking, cycling). However, measures encouraging public transport and car sharing will be more difficult to implement because of social distancing and fear of proximity to others. Instead, initiatives encouraging remote working, active travel, and improved staff awareness will be at the forefront of the future ground access strategy development.

Community intellectual disability nurses’ public health roles in the United Kingdom: An exploratory documentary analysis

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kay Mafuba ◽  
Bob Gates ◽  
Maria Cozens
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
Public Health Policy ◽  
Role Theory ◽  
Role Clarity ◽  
Job Descriptions ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Documentary Analysis

The aim of this study was to explore how public health policy in the United Kingdom was reflected in community intellectual disability nurses’ (CIDNs)’ job descriptions and person’s specifications. The role of CIDNs has evolved due to policy changes. As these roles evolve, job descriptions and person specifications are important in highlighting employer’s expectations staff, priorities, and professional values of their employees. This study involved an exploratory documentary analysis of n = 203 CIDNs’ job descriptions and person specifications in the context of role theory. The CIDNs’ public health roles identified in this study are health education, health protection, health prevention, health surveillance, and health promotion. Key policies themes were intellectual disability health access, public health strategies, policy evaluation/redesign, and public health policy. There is a lack of public health role clarity and inconsistency in role expectations across organizational boundaries in the United Kingdom.

scholarly journals Why Mobility Justice Means Prioritising Accessible Walking Environments

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Anne Mullen
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Active Travel ◽  
Transport Policy ◽  
Social Implications ◽  
Current Policy ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Policy And Planning

Promotion of active travel is a fixture in transport policy and planning. Yet, this paper argues, walking and the availability of comprehensive and accessible pedestrian environments have an importance for mobility justice and sustainability which is not currently recognised. The paper investigates how and why walking provision matters for justice, and explores what this means for decision-making affecting mobility systems and the built environment. It begins with an argument that a coherent conception of mobility justice would be simultaneously concerned with environmental and social implications of transport since both affect people’s physical lives, welfare and flourishing. That requirement frames the types of mobility systems which could be compatible with justice, and points to a need for prioritisation of active travel far beyond current policy and practice. Specifically, the need for environmental sustainability coupled with social inclusion creates a case for systematically prioritising provision for walking over other mobility. This means the removal of all forms of barriers to walking so that no one is excluded by severance, impassable surfaces or lack of safety.

scholarly journals Challenges to a Rights-Based Approach in Sexual Health Policy: A Comparative Study of Turkey and England

Societies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Volkan Yilmaz ◽  
Paul Willis
Keyword(s):  
Health Policy ◽  
Sexual Health ◽  
Social Attitudes ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Sexual Health Education ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
Sexually Transmitted ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
Local Discretion ◽  
Conservative Turn

Politics around sexual health have been polarised in recent years, but the policy implications of this polarisation have not yet been examined in depth. Therefore, this article explores political challenges to a rights-based approach in sexual health policies in Turkey and England. Its focus is on two domains: The prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted infections (STI), and sexual health education. Drawing on an interpretive documentary analysis, this article reveals that although social attitudes to sexuality and the levels of overall alignment with a rights-based framework within the selected countries do differ, both face significant political challenges in putting a rights-based approach to sexual health into practice. While common political challenges include heightened domestic controversy regarding sexual health, the specific challenges take the forms of a broader conservative turn that undermines the autonomy of sexual health policy in Turkey (similar to the cases of Hungary and Poland), and neoliberal policy preferences coupled with local discretion and service fragmentation that create access inequities in England (similar to the case of Germany). This study concludes that implementing a rights-based approach is a complex political task requiring a nuanced approach that incorporates the political dimension.

Health, wellbeing and quality of life

2019 ◽  
pp. 177-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Curl ◽  
Julie Clark
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Population Health ◽  
Health Inequalities ◽  
Transport Policy ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Private Car ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Significant Health

Transport is fundamental to health, wellbeing and quality of life. By providing accessibility and mobility, it contributes positively to population health in numerous ways. At the same time, many significant health challenges can also be attributed to particular ways of travelling, with the dominance of the private car a particular issue. Transport has the potential to address health inequalities, yet despite a recent upsurge of interest in the benefits of active travel, health is seldom a primary consideration in transport policy. Proposing an agenda for change that puts health and wellbeing at the heart of transport policy, we investigate how transport and health policy can intertwine to realise the benefits of transport while mitigating its negative impacts, and argue that the underlying purpose of transport policy must be to improve the health and wellbeing of citizens.

scholarly journals The Human Disaster and the Urgency of the Intersetorial Join Between Public Social Policies: Lives that are Lost and Stories that Repeat Themselves

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (s1) ◽  
pp. s136-s137
Author(s):  
Maria Isabel Barros Bellini ◽  
Nadianna Marques
Keyword(s):  
Health Policy ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Brazilian Government ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
Action Strategies ◽  
Santa Maria

Introduction:The human disaster is a permanent challenge for the Brazilian government because the difficulties faced are related to the lack of interface between public policies, resulting in fragile analyses of risk and non-prevention, being that annually several Brazilian lives are lost in disasters that continue to happen.Aim:The article is the result of research and presents the analyses of health policy, actions, and programs developed to anticipate the fire victims of the Nightclub Kiss concert hall that took place in 2013 (Santa Maria, Brazil). The objective was to investigate and analyze the disasters and human disasters, especially the fire of Nightclub Kiss when 242 young people died. Causes and determinants were analyzed in order to subsidize public policies, in particular, the health policy.Methods:A qualitative case study supported by the critical dialectic method with semi-structured interviews, focus group, documentary analysis, and bibliographic review.Results:The experiences accumulated throughout history show that disaster situations require public policies to be able to act readily, resolve, and pay attention to the needs of the population involved. Disasters are increasingly recurrent episodes and generate deep social consequences that mark human life. Managing a human disaster remains a challenge for the health policy in Brazil. The difficulties faced are related to the lack of interface with other public policies. The urgency to incorporate intervention/action strategies into health plans is important. Implementation of prevention and training programs, and adopting strategies and protocols for the whole network of attention is critical.Discussion:It is important to emphasize the importance of broadening the theoretical definitions by overcoming the divergences of the concepts adopted between the theoretical and operational field, by elaborating a review of the Brazilian legislation in order to broaden and contemplate the needs of different people.

scholarly journals It’s the economy, stupid! When economics and politics override health policy goals – the case of tax reliefs to build private hospitals in Ireland in the early 2000s

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara A. Burke ◽  
Ruairi Brugha ◽  
Stephen Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Health Policy ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Private Hospitals ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Policy Making Process

Objectives: To analyse the policy process that led to changes to the Finance Acts in 2001 and 2002 that gave tax-reliefs to build private hospitals in Ireland. Methods: Qualitative research methods of documentary analysis and in-depth semi-structured interviews with elites involved in the policy processes, were used and examined through a conceptual framework devised for this research. Results: This research found a highly politicised and personalised policy making process where policy entrepreneurs, namely private sector interests, had significant impact on the policy process. Effective private sector lobbying encouraged the Minister of Finance to introduce the tax-reliefs for building private hospitals despite advice against this policy measure from his own officials, officials in the Department of Health and the health minister. The Finance Acts in 2001 and 2002 introduced tax-reliefs for building private hospitals, without any public or political scrutiny or consensus. Conclusion: The changes to the Finance Acts to give tax-reliefs to build private hospitals in 2001 and private for-profit hospitals 2002 is an example of a closed, personalised policy making process. It is an example of a politically imposed policy by the finance minister, where economic policy goals overrode health policy goals. The documentary analysis and elite interviews examined through a conceptual framework enabled an in-depth analysis of this specific policy making process. These methods and the framework may be useful to other policy making analyses.

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