Subject(s): Health planning. -- Medical care -- Medical policy. -- HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues -- Public Health -- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Health policy, health care, health care policies as systems, policy and planning -- Studying health care policies : Approaches to policy studies, designing a policy study, techniques and methods for policy studies, techniques to assist the decision making process, choosing technique or approach -- Analyzing health care policies : Power, policy making process, pluralism, elite theory, Marxist approaches, structuralist approaches -- Professionalism and bureaucracy : dominant is the medical profession, health professionals in developing countries, professionalism and complementary medicine -- Key issues in health policy : Ill health and deprivation, defining poverty, wealth and poverty as determinates of health, equity, social welfare, equity in health care, equity and efficient, development- environmental perspective, socioeconomic perspective, modernization theory, welfare and redistribution approaches to development, changing views about development, globalization, globalisation, privatization, sectoral reform -- Aid and health sector : Aid within global relationships, features of aid process, sustainability -- Privatization- within the health sector : Global trends, public sector, market environment for health care, market environment enhance democracy and community participation, market environment increase equity, efficiency and services -- Study of health policy improve the process- developing health policy, developing policies for health for all, evidence based policy making