The phrase "actors of policy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to individuals or groups that play a role in the formulation or implementation of policies.
Example: "The actors of policy in this region include government officials, non-profit organizations, and community leaders."
Alternatives: "policy stakeholders" or "policy participants".
According to our results, we suggest that teachers and actors of prevention policy should pay more attention to adolescents' social psychological attributes and social (peer) norms of high school classes.
Other factors which influenced policy development included: i) use of evidence and the characteristics of evidence used in policymaking; ii) the policy process utilized and the role and relationship of actors; and iii) the ideologies of policy actors and ideologies of those who the policy is targeted at [ 1, 3, 14].
We used a policy analysis framework derived from Walt and Gilson that interrogated the context, content, actors, and processes of policy development and implementation.
We suggest that these subfields form the core constituent parts of broader health policy processes and organisational activities; and that each has their own hierarchy of actors and set of policy issues, accountability dynamics and concerns to contend with.
Government actors are part of policy communities and in the UK case the most prominent of these were FCO, DH and DFID.
The sector-wide approach created a new avenue for policymaking platforms between the MOH, international donors, and other actors broadening the scope and range of policy actors.
The larviciding decision involved a restricted range of policy actors, and notably excluded actors that usually play advisory, consultative and evidence generation roles.
Both tools allow for the capture of essential features of interactions between components in open architectures, therefore assisting in concept refinement, identification of actors, policy exploration and the feasibility assessment of new systems.
A purposive sampling strategy was used to ensure that a range of policy actors was covered and that, at the highest level, the most important policy actors were selected.
However, interpreting the data on policy actors' different priorities and decisions, and the rationales behind them, it is possible to better understand the different priorities of policy actors and so inform better procedures for or management of a complex and unavoidable rationing process in healthcare.
