This open access book provides a set of conceptual, empirical, and comparative chapters that apply a public policy perspective to investigate the political and

This book explores the complex relationship between public health research and policy, employing tobacco control and health inequalities in the UK as contrastin

Over the last twenty or so years, it has become standard to require policy makers to base their recommendations on evidence. That is now uncontroversial to the

Health policy is a highly contested arena where there have been increasing calls for policy to be more 'evidence based'. A central question remains 'is evidence