title: Policy Capacity Meets Politics: Comment on "Health Reform Requires Policy Capacity".
abstract: It is difficult to disagree with the general argument that successful health reform requires a significant degree of policy capacity or that all players in the policy game need to move beyond self-interested advocacy. However, an overly broad definition of policy capacity is a problem. More important perhaps, health reform inevitably requires not just policy capacity but political leadership and compromise.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Fafard
mesh_terms: D057191:Capacity Building; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D011050:Policy Making; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care
keywords: Health Politics; Health Reform; Leadership; Policy Capacity