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Performance Assessment and Wicked Problems: The Case of Health Inequalities

Durham University

Alexandra Greene

University of Aberdeen

David J. Hunter

Durham University

Lorna McKee

University of Aberdeen

Eva Elliott

Cardiff University

Barbara Harrington

Linda Marks

Durham University

Gareth Williams

Cardiff University

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.

Public Policy and Administration, Vol. 21, No. 2, 66-80 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/095207670602100206


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