Acknowledgements; Foreword; Executive Summary; 1. 21st-Century governance for health and well-being; Background; Focus of the study; Contextual drivers; 2. Governance; Three key governance dynamics; The changing nature of policy-making; 3. Governance for health and well-being; History of horizontal governance for health in three waves; 4. Good governance for health and well-being; What is good governance?; Role of guiding value systems; The relationship between values and evidence; 5. Smart governance for health and well-being; Introduction
Five types of smart governance for health and well-being6. New governance for health; New role for the health sector; Political engagement and leadership; Conclusions and recommendations on the new European policy for health -- Health 2020; Glossary; References; Key literature that has informed this study
Summary
Governance for health describes the attempts of governments and other actors to steer communities whole countries or even groups of countries in the pursuit of health as integral to well-being. This study tracks recent governance innovations to address the priority determinants of health and categorizes them into five strategic approaches to smart governance for health. It relates the emergence of joint action by the health sector and non-health sectors by public and private actors and by citizens all of whom have an increasing role to play in achieving seminal changes in 21st-century societie
