Performance Assessment and Wicked Problems: The Case of Health Inequalities
- 1 April 2006
- journal 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.Keywords
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