Health Policy Stakeholders: An Analysis of Key Perspectives

This report provides an overview of health policy stakeholders across six key areas: mental health, aboriginal health, hospital policy, nursing education policy, pediatric health policy, and women and child health policy. Each section summarizes a research paper related to the specific stakeholder group, highlighting the main themes, methodologies, and relevance to understanding stakeholder influence. The report examines topics such as network structures in mental health policy, stakeholder perspectives on aboriginal health, the impact of health technology assessment in hospitals, patient participation in nursing care, evidence-informed policy-making in pediatrics, and factors influencing male involvement in preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission. The analysis emphasizes the importance of understanding stakeholder perspectives in shaping and implementing effective health policies.

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Executive summary
In this report, the six different topics on the health policy stakeholders will be discussed. The
topics include the mental health policy stakeholders, aboriginal health policy stakeholders,
hospital policy stakeholders, nursing education policy stakeholder, pediatric health policy
stakeholder and women and child policy stakeholder. An introduction on all these topics has been
provided along with its importance and influence on the various policies.

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Topic 1:
Mental health policy stakeholders
Holden, C.A. and Lin, V., 2012. Network structures and their relevance to the policy cycle: A
case study of The National Male Health Policy of Australia. Social Science & Medicine, 74(2),
pp.228-235.
The main theme of this paper is the understanding of a network formation obtained from
the network analysis method that is broadly described in the paper providing the stake holders
and policy makers the means to analyse the other stakeholders position in context to
consideration of the policy process.
Competing interests in relation to health care is a conflict of value, which has a direct
effect on the care the physicians provide and even evaluates the factor that whether the
competing interests has any negative impact on the divergent interests. There is an involvement
of the government in the policy making process and the health care organisations are often asked
to have some policies that will guard the negative impacts of the competing interests.
The approach used in this paper is important for understanding the influence of
stakeholders in public health policy because this paper focuses on the performers of a policy,
which is helpful in providing the insight about how to feature a policy. To provide a broader view
of the stakeholders in the mental health policy this paper provides a case study on the competing
interest. This study provides with a network analysis style as an instrument, which will help the
policy makers to identify the stakeholders and their considerations regarding the policy process.
this study focuses on the structural functional framework and this helps in evaluating on role of
the network analysis in providing of alternative methods to the stakeholders for participating in

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the policy cycle process. This paper highlights the point about how the network based on the
relationship of the policy makers and stakeholders’ impacts on the policy process and hence has
relevance to the topic and can be used as assistance to the topic.

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Topic 2:
Aboriginal health policy stakeholder
Flicker, S. and Worthington, C.A., 2012. Public health research involving aboriginal peoples:
research ethics board stakeholders' reflections on ethics principles and research
processes. Canadian Journal of Public Health/Revue Canadienne de Sante'e Publique, pp.19-
22.
The main theme of this study is to identify the role of the stakeholders about the health
policy of the aboriginals. This study highlights the fact of having a presence of considerable
discussions about the principles that are best for researching the health process of the aboriginals
in context to the stakeholders’ perspective.
This study deals with the term community health or the health issues of any community.
The study of community health focuses on mainly kinds of groups and deals with aspects of
health of that certain group. Community health mainly focuses on health issues of the whole
group rather than pointing on any individual. This is why this study relates to the topic and this
study deals with the system in which the health characteristics of a given community can be
sorted and mentions that health of any group or community is dependent on the social and
demographic position of that particular group. Health dimension encompasses the complete
physical and mental situation of an individual. The stakeholders are not always involved in the
health policy of the stakeholders and they do not particularly have the decision making right if
not they are given the objective of the meaningful engagement that allows them to be a part of
the decision making process.
This study is relevant to the topic because it highlights that the stakeholders do not have the right
to get involved in the health and health policy matters of the aboriginals. They are not always

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allowed to take part in every decision making process and as the topic of the study is the
aboriginal health policy stakeholders, the overall topic is discussed in the chosen paper providing
a clear view. Thus, this paper can be accessed as an assistance to the topic to define the
stakeholders position in aboriginal health policy.

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Topic 3:
Hospital policy stakeholders
Gagnon, M.P., Desmartis, M., Poder, T. and Witteman, W., 2014. Effects and repercussions of
local/hospital-based health technology assessment (HTA): a systematic review. Systematic
reviews, 3(1), p.129.
This chosen article is about the health technology assessment of hospitals and this paper
highlights the perceptions of the stakeholders in the process of HTA in the hospitals. There is
also mentioning of the implementation of the stakeholders recommendations for improving
outcomes.
This research paper has an analysis of a conducted research to find the answer to the
relevant questions and to find the answer to the perceptions of the stakeholders in the hospital
policy. The method chosen by this paper was PRISMA and it was conducted in two methods;
firstly the screening and selection method and the extraction of the data. The study was
conducted using around 700 articles and the research was done in the hospitals of a country.
As the study was only about the effects of HTA and finding the perceptions of the
stakeholders along with implementation of the recommendations, this study had limited access to
research. The overall research provides an understanding of the impact of decision with
introducing modern technologies in the hospitals. The study does not broadly emphasize on the
stakeholder term in the whole paper but it is well known that the stakeholders of a hospital are
the providers, payers, patients and the employers. Hence, through this paper one can critically
evaluate the stakeholders’ perception about the hospital policy.
This article discusses the perception of stakeholders in the hospital policy; though not by
mentioning the term stakeholders in every term still this article is relevant to the topic and can be

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used to discuss the topic in a broader way. This article focuses on the given topic, though it
discusses the context of the topic in a different way it still highlights the importance of the
decision-making by the stakeholders of a hospital and can be used as a help to describe the topic
clearly.

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Topic 4:
Nursing educational policy stakeholders
Tobiano, G., Marshall, A., Bucknall, T. and Chaboyer, W., 2015. Patient participation in
nursing care on medical wards: an integrative review. International journal of nursing
studies, 52(6), pp.1107-1120.
This article is about the participation of the patients in the way of their own nursing care.
This study highlights the role of the patients in the nursing process. The objective of the study is
to provide the perceptions of the patients towards the patient involvement in nursing process.
This research paper has implied some methods to integrate the reviews of the patients as
well as the nurses in the nursing process or policy. The methods with the help of which the study
was conducted are data sources and the review methods, which provided a clear idea about the
topic of the paper. The limitations of the paper are that the paper had some discrepancies. The
results of the conducted research helped the research with some themes, which were the enacted
participation, challenges in the participation process and the promotion of participation and lastly
the participation types. There is a large number of enacted participation of the patients in the
medical wards. The known challenges are willingness of the patients and the approach of the
nurses. Sharing of the information can be a way of promoting the participation.

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The question may arise how the above discussion is relevant to the topic. The above discussion is
about the participation of the patients in nursing policy. This is the answer of the question.
Broadly describing, this paper discusses about one of the stakeholders’ participation in the health
care system and that is the patient. The patients are a type of stakeholders in any health care
system. Hence, this paper is relevant to the topic and has the information, which can be used for
defining the topic. The topic is about the nursing policy stakeholders and the paper is about the
patient participation in the nursing policy, therefore, this paper can actually be a guide to discuss
the topic.

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Topic 5:
Paediatric health policy stakeholder
Young, I., Gropp, K., Pintar, K., Waddell, L., Marshall, B., Thomas, K., McEwen, S.A. and
Rajić, A., 2014. Experiences and Attitudes Towards Evidence
‐Informed Policy
‐Making Among
Research and Policy Stakeholders in the Canadian Agri
‐Food Public Health Sector. Zoonoses
and public health, 61(8), pp.581-589.
This paper discusses the principle for developing the policy making process more
evidence informed for the paediatric or food sector. This paper focuses on the interface of the
food sector and policy making with highlighting its impact.
This paper covers a research of food and public health policy makers of Canada, to
understand the perspectives of the policy makers. This paper focused on few groups on which the
study was conducted and the participants were from paediatric and food departments. The
participants introduced the research to all the principles required in this sector. The first one was
clarifying the objectives of the policy. Second was the supporting the policy making with
evidence third was evidence of the stakeholders interest in the policy inputs. Fourth, the ensuring
of the evidence is delivered to the stakeholders in an informative way. Fifth was creating
interdisciplinary perspective among the communities and the stakeholders. Sixth aspect was
enhancing of individual skills for the policy makers. The results found after consideration of
above facts are that the planned effort can lead to proper policy making along with evidence.
Understanding of the policy realms can be effective in the policy making of the food industry.
The limitation of this study is that it is conducted on few groups and hence there is a problem of
implementing the results on wider perspective.
This paper is relevant to the topic as this paper highlights the integration of evidence

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based policy makers with the stakeholders interest and even the importance of the information
sharing about the policy making of food industry to the stakeholders. Thus this paper can be used
to discuss the topic broadly. This paper provides the proper importance of the policy makers in
the paediatric policymaking system. Thus, this paper can be used as an assistance to look up to
the topic of paediatric policy making.