Performance Assessment and Wicked Problems: The Case of Health Inequalities

1 April 2006

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Public Policy and Administration

Vol. 21 (2) , 66-80
https://doi.org/10.1177/095207670602100206

Abstract

This article considers the background to one of the projects in the UK Economic and Social Research Council's Public Services Programme: a major; three-year investigation of how health inequalities are being framed for intervention at a local level in post-devolution England, Scotland and Wales. A particular interest is in the difference that performance assessment makes as it engages to a greater or lesser extent with health inequalities.

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