This book unpacks policy and politics for health, equity, and wellbeing. With a critical realist lens, the book provides a methodology for sophisticated health focussed policy analysis which situates public health within complex political processes and systems. The application of that lens is demonstrated with insights from a decade of research into urban and regional planning.

Patrick Harris is Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the Centre for Health Equity Training, Research and Evaluation at UNSW, Sydney, Australia.

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part 1: Methodology matters.- Chapter 2: The positioning of health in public policy (with an urban flavour).- Chapter 3: Healthy Public Policy analysis switches on the floodlights.- Chapter 4: The steps in critical realist analysis.- Chapter 5: Drawing out the essentials for analysing public policy for health: the policy cube, etc.