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Health action zones
"Health Action Zones (HAZ) were one of the earliest and most prominent area-based initiatives launched by the new Labour government in England soon after it came to power in 1997. Health Action Zones, written by members of the team undertaking the national evaluation of HAZ, examines their development and impact from a variety of perspectives." "The authors outline important features of the social, policy and evaluative environment within which HAZ were established and which greatly contributed to learning about health policy and practice development in the early part of twenty-first century. They also discuss enduring themes such as building and developing capacity with diverse and unequal partners within complex policy systems. The authors assess the successes of specific strategies aimed at improving health and reducing health inequalities." "Health Action Zones provides in-depth...
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