title: Politics trumps policy: How health ministers make decisions.
abstract: This paper explores how health ministers make decisions. It is not intended to be an exhaustive inquiry into the subject; rather it draws on my personal experience as a public servant, a health minister, and a political advisor in the British Columbia government over the past 40 years, plus informal interviews with former health ministers from different political parties.
authors.affiliation: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. ecull@shaw.ca.
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Cull
mesh_terms: D001955:British Columbia; D006076:Government; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D011050:Policy Making; D011057:Politics; D011634:Public Health