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Disciplining health policy? Explaining health policy by reference to…what?

The field of health policy, like other applied areas of policy studies, can occasionally be inter-disciplinary, if less often in reality than in intention; is from time to time multi-disciplinary; and even more often is uni-disciplinary in the assumptions, both overt and tacit, of its practitioners, for example, economists, political scientists and sociologists. All this assumes that it is not a discipline in itself, which is a fair assumption: public policy, policy analysis or public administration may just be considered a discipline, but even with the generic policy ‘sciences’, it seems more sensible to categorise them as applications of the ‘basic’ disciplines.