According to Stiglitz, while the market forces are a factor, policies that have shaped the market in favour of the very wealthy are also responsible for this growing gap.
Among the most influential factors, policy factors such as the population policy of China and the impact of education policy on different social groups tend to make the determinants of school children's commuting mode choice more complicated.
By decomposing the determining factors, policy makers can employ this information to design effective agri-environmental programmes, desirable to farmers and more targeted towards specific environmental and agricultural development goals.
Next to environment and health factors, policy and social factors were also taken into account.
However, for these risk factors, policy action also may be required, for example, for specific susceptible groups.
Among other factors, policy makers demanded additional research to assess implementation feasibility of SMC within ordinary health system context.
Table 1 summarizes contextual factors, policy circumstances and policy characteristics, comparing their impact on policy space during the second half of the 1990s with the years since 2000.
These were social cultural factors; policy environment; risks, and help-seeking behaviours in violent relationships; and future expectations of care, support and IPV prevention.
This paper focuses specifically on the implementation of research and innovation for health policies unpacking, among others, the role of national and institutional contextual factors, policy content, and approaches.
I do appreciate that a lot more factors influence policy: ethical factors, social factors, economic factors.
