The temporalities of policymaking: The case of HIV test-and-treat policy adoption in Zimbabwe
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Accepted version
Author(s)
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Despite calls for “rapid adoption” of global health policies and treatment guidelines; there is little understanding of the factors that help accelerate their adoption and implementation. Drawing on in-depth interviews with sixteen Zimbabwean policymakers, we unpack how different factors, rhythmic experiences and epochal practices come together to shape the speeding up and slowing down of test-and-treat implementation in Zimbabwe. We present an empirically derived framework for the temporal analysis of policy adoption and argue that such analysis can help highlight the multiple and messy realities of policy adoption and implementation - supporting future calls for ‘rapid’ policy adoption.
Date Issued
2019-11-25
Date Acceptance
2019-11-08
Citation
Health & Place, 2019
ISSN
1353-8292
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Start Page
102246
End Page
102246
Journal / Book Title
Health & Place
Copyright Statement
© 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This manuscript is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
Subjects
1117 Public Health and Health Services
1604 Human Geography
Public Health
Publication Status
Published online
Article Number
102246
Date Publish Online
2019-11-25