Alas, the sample of policy erudition that followed was no less mind-numbing for being brief.
This sample of policy developments parallels rising demands to advance women's empowerment and gender equality, and to address violence against women.
A purposive sample of policy elites (n = 31) from government, academia, food industry and non-government organizations sorted 48 statements related to improving food environments in England.
A stakeholder mapping exercise was conducted to find an appropriate sample of policy actors [ 28].
There is, however, merit in determining if the findings identified amongst this select sample of experts can be replicated with a larger and more representative sample of policy makers, practitioners, and researchers.
The principal strength of our study is that we received in-depth feedback from a sample of policy analysts and advisors (a key target audience for us) about trial participation and HSE features and we have acted on many of their suggestions for improving HSE.
While this research reviewed only a sample of local policies, these covered all areas of England and met our objectives as this sample sufficiently identified huge variation and a worrying number of different systems of how Trusts deal with DNACPR decisions across England.
The topics of the sample of HEPA policies included in the analysis contained public health aspects (prevention, health promotion, and nutrition), HEPA aspects (sport, movement for health and sport for all, Olympics), infrastructure (transport, walking and cycling, sports halls and gyms), and places for PA (youth, schools, and neighbourhoods) [ 29].
The results section maps the extent and nature of existing national adaptation policy for climate vulnerable groups in an exhaustive sample of 20 policy documents from 12 countries.
Consequently, we may have recruited a non-representative sample of health policy experts.
This pilot study focused only on six countries and a selected sample of national policy-makers within those countries; the intent was to explore the use of an empirical approach to understand these policy-makers.
