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. 2019 May 22;22(15):2868–2878. doi: 10.1017/S1368980019001198

Table 2.

Thematic framework derived from interviews with policy actors involved in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health policy between 1996 and 2015, Australia (n 38) (adapted from Shiffman and Smith(28), p. 1371)

Category Theme
Actor power
  • 1.

    Policy community cohesion: a collective voice

  • 2.

    Leadership: the need for ‘champions’

  • 3.

    Guiding institutions: an institutional home

  • 4.

    Civil society mobilisation: building a groundswell
Ideas
  • 5.

    Internal frame: lack of consensus

  • 6.

    External frame: a compelling narrative
Political contexts
  • 7.

    Policy windows

  • 8.

    Governance structures
Issue characteristics
  • 9.

    Credible indicators: nutrition is many things

  • 10.

    Severity (relative to other problems)

  • 11.

    Effective interventions: there’s no simple solution
The rise and fall of nutrition
  • 12.

    The change in prioritisation of nutrition in national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health policy