Evelyne De Leeuw
Biographic Data
| ID | 3583860 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Evelyne De Leeuw |
| GIVEN NAMES | Evelyne |
| FAMILY NAME | De Leeuw |
| SIGNATURE | DE LEEUW E |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3434-1439 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 53 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Urban gardening in public space: Policy approaches in Greater Sydney
Citizen-led initiatives, like urban gardening, are increasingly transforming urban public spaces. Such practices of DIY urbanism have prompted varied policy responses from local governments across the world. Public urban gardening is a form of citizen initiative that involves the small-scale appropriation of publicly accessible open space for gardening with or without the approval of the landowner, usually the local authority. Growing plants on p…
A health promotion perspective on One Health
The One Health concept has acquired increasing attention due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We argue for a health promotion perspective that frames One Health in terms of positive health for people, animals, and ecosystems and includes a spiritual-cosmological dimension. This would enhance policy, research, and practice across disciplines and sectors for a more resilient and harmonious planet
Remembering our friend Leonard J. Duhl
An action-oriented public health framework to reduce financial strain and promote financial wellbeing in high-income countries
The Framework reveals the intersectionality of root causes and consequences of financial strain and poor financial wellbeing, while also reinforcing the need for tailored actions to promote socioeconomic and health equity for all people. The dynamic, systemic interplay of the entry points illustrated in the Framework suggest opportunities for multi-sectoral, collaborative action across government and organizations towards systems change and the p…
Place-making and its impact on health and wellbeing among recently resettled refugees in high income contexts: A scoping review
We identified three aspects of ‘place-making’ relevant to refugee health: material; psychosocial; and structural. • Place-making is negotiated through refugee agency, processes of inhabitation, and situated encounters, all of which impact health/wellbeing. • Poor access to safe housing and neighbourhoods, therapeutic leisure and green spaces, and racism worsen mental health among refugees. • Psychosocial aspects of belonging and strong family, an…
Five urban health research traditions: A meta-narrative review
Is there a role for hybrid service provision in place‐based initiatives within the human services sector? Findings from an Australian exploratory study
The value of place‐based initiatives in the design and delivery of human services has long been recognised, but the need for hybrid service delivery to clients—that is any combination of online and in‐person modalities—has become more apparent in the wake of the COVID‐19 pandemic. At face value, there may be a perceived contradiction between the reliance on geographical place in place‐based initiatives and online service delivery. Yet, it is inev…
Epistemic courage and health political science
In Conversation: Boundary Spanners, Thinkers and Policy Actors—policy briefs for health promotion
One of the ‘greats’ of the discipline of Public Administration, Professor Guy Peters, maintains that the Holy Grail of public administration is whole systems integration. This is a challenge that has been accepted by the health promotion community. There is growing recognition across the global public policy and research fields that to respond to the complex health, social, economic, political and environmental challenges facing society requires …
The Wellbeing Economy is within reach—let’s grasp it for better health
It is well understood that ensuring the health and wellbeing of the population and the planet requires action on a wide range of social, economic, cultural and environmental determinants. Current economic policies typically pay insufficient heed to these determinants compromising the future health of the planet and inadequately considering the impact of intergenerational transfer of wealth and resources. We now have a critical opportunity to pivo…
Using systems thinking to assess the functioning of an “Age-Friendly City” governance network in Australia
Age-Friendly Cities (AFC) is a framework for promoting healthy ageing through local actions. We use systems thinking to assess potential outcomes of actions to support older people’s mobility, undertaken within an AFC commitment in Greater Sydney. Interviews with 20 informants involved in providing space, infrastructure, or services that affect how older people get around were analysed using causal loop diagrams (CLDs). Four approaches to support…
Icing or cake? Grant competitions as a model for funding chronic disease prevention in Tasmania, Australia
Competitive grant funding is a well-established mechanism for generating activity and interventions in the field of chronic disease prevention. Yet grant competitions may be burdensome for organizations, and money may not be enough to bring about lasting change in communities. In this study, we explore the dynamics of awarding and receiving money in the context of a state-level government grant competition to support community organizations and p…
Experiences of Older Aboriginal People in Navigating Transport Systems in an Urban Setting: An Indigenous Perspective on Transport Access, a Social Determinant of Health
This study suggests three potential ways that the current trajectory that underserves older Aboriginal people could be disrupted, relating to service design, the diversity and inclusion agenda, and the social determinants of Indigenous health
Four urban health paradigms: The search for coherence
Scholars, practitioners and policymakers view urban health based on their foundational ontologies, or paradigms, which provide a framework of norms that specifies the policy goals or research questions, the preferred policy instruments or research methodologies, and defines the nature of the urban health issue. This paper identifies four paradigms in current research and practice that address the links between the urban built environment and huma…
Intersectorality and health: A glossary
Intersectorality has become an unchallenged article of faith in health thinking.1 The term ‘intersectoral action’ first formally entered the literature in the 1970s.2 3 It came about when a technical advisory group at WHO contemplated the challenges in sanitation. The technical advisors acknowledged that traditional infectious disease and public health personnel needed to connect with engineering and water management specialists, and that each of…
Under the spotlight: Understanding the role of the Chief Medical Officer in a pandemic
As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in 2020, Chief Medical Officers (CMOs) entered the public spotlight like never before. Amidst this increased visibility, the role is deeply contested. Much of the disagreement concerns whether CMOs should act independently of the government: while some argue CMOs should act as independent voices who work to shape government policy to protect public health, others stress that CMOs are civil servants whose job is …
Exploratory Visuals and Text in Qualitative Research Interviews: How Do We Respond
Visual stimuli are increasingly used in formal communications and as a qualitative research method, reported to generate a 'different' and 'richer' response than text or language alone. However, the parameters by which this occurs are underexplored. In our research we use images and text as interview stimuli in a project exploring personal wellbeing to compare differences in communication process and outcomes. A visual tool expressing concepts of…
Population Health Status of the Republic of Kazakhstan: Trends and Implications for Public Health Policy
The Republic of Kazakhstan began undergoing a political, economic, and social transition after 1991. Population health was declared an important element and was backed with a substantial commitment by the central government to health policy. We examine key trends in the population health status of the Republic of Kazakhstan and seek to understand them in relation to the ongoing political, economic, and social changes in society and its aspiration…
City deals and health equity in Sydney, Australia
The health impacts of transformative infrastructure change: Process matters as much as outcomes
Co-producing active lifestyles as whole-system-approach: Theory, intervention and knowledge-to-action implications
Population health interventions tend to lack links to the emerging discourse on interactive knowledge production and exchange. This situation may limit both a better understanding of mechanisms that impact health lifestyles and the development of strategies for population level change. This paper introduces an integrated approach based on structure-agency theory in the context of 'social practice'. It investigates the mechanisms of co-production …
Understanding Australian policies on public health using social and political science theories: Reflections from an Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Workshop
There is strong, and growing, evidence documenting health inequities across the world. However, most governments do not prioritize policies to encourage action on the social determinants of health and health equity. Furthermore, despite evidence concerning the benefits of joined-up, intersectoral policy to promote health and health equity, it is rare for such policy approaches to be applied systematically. To examine the usefulness of political a…
The Short-Sighted Sycophant’s Selfie
Overlaying structure and frames in policy networks to enable effective boundary spanning
The literature on the evidence-policy nexus has been dominated in recent years by technocratic approaches such as ‘knowledge translation’. Attention is beginning to return, however, to political science for its insights into the distribution of power, which are key to understanding how policy is made, particularly in the health sphere. Policy network theory, which suggests that policy outcomes are shaped by the interactions between actors in a ne…
Engagement of Sectors Other than Health in Integrated Health Governance, Policy, and Action
Health is created largely outside the health sector. Engagement in health governance, policy, and intervention development and implementation by sectors other than health is therefore important. Recent calls for building and implementing Health in All Policies, and continued arguments for intersectoral action, may strengthen the potential that other sectors have for health. This review clarifies the conceptual foundations for integral health gove…
Reason and Protest in the New Urban Public Health Movement: An Observation on the Sociological Analysis of Political Discourse in the 'Healthy City
The urban environment represents an important social and geographical focus for the international new urban public health movement in general and the World Health Organization's 'Healthy Cities' project in particular. Existing and new policies of relevance to urban health are however infused with notions of cause, effect and ideas of appropriate intervention that reflect highly malleable and more or less conscious expressions of rationality, self…
Utility-driven evidence for healthy cities: Problems with evidence generation and application
Juggling Multiple Networks in Multiple Streams
This paper suggests a new conceptual gaze at theorizing the policy process. Alternating between practical, empirical, and theoretical perspectives, we describe how the hybridization of Multiple Streams, Policy Network, and Frame theories leads to a juggling metaphor to describe the process. From the initiation of this research program, we found that the information our research yielded was vastly more complex and dynamic than what is generally re…
A network approach to policy framing: A case study of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Plan
Nine questions to guide development and implementation of Health in All Policies
Based on the policy science literature, we formulate nine core questions that can guide the formulation, negotiation, development and implementation of Health in All Policies (HiAP). Each question is grounded in the political and policy science literature and culminates in checklist items that HiAP developers must consider
Global Health Governance
When a new scholarly field is emerging one tends to look upon the arrival of new texts with excitement. Global health is such a field. Jeremy Youde's book Global Health Governance was therefore get
The health impacts of transformative infrastructure change: Process matters as much as outcomes
Evaluation of Partnership Working in Cities in Phase IV of the WHO Healthy Cities Network
Health policy making: The Dutch experience
Concepts in health promotion: The notion of relativism
Intersectorality and health: A glossary
Intersectorality has become an unchallenged article of faith in health thinking.1 The term ‘intersectoral action’ first formally entered the literature in the 1970s.2 3 It came about when a technical advisory group at WHO contemplated the challenges in sanitation. The technical advisors acknowledged that traditional infectious disease and public health personnel needed to connect with engineering and water management specialists, and that each of…
Exploratory Visuals and Text in Qualitative Research Interviews: How Do We Respond
Visual stimuli are increasingly used in formal communications and as a qualitative research method, reported to generate a 'different' and 'richer' response than text or language alone. However, the parameters by which this occurs are underexplored. In our research we use images and text as interview stimuli in a project exploring personal wellbeing to compare differences in communication process and outcomes. A visual tool expressing concepts of…
Do Healthy Cities Work? A Logic of Method for Assessing Impact and Outcome of Healthy Cities
Epistemic courage and health political science
Four urban health paradigms: The search for coherence
Scholars, practitioners and policymakers view urban health based on their foundational ontologies, or paradigms, which provide a framework of norms that specifies the policy goals or research questions, the preferred policy instruments or research methodologies, and defines the nature of the urban health issue. This paper identifies four paradigms in current research and practice that address the links between the urban built environment and huma…
Under the spotlight: Understanding the role of the Chief Medical Officer in a pandemic
As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in 2020, Chief Medical Officers (CMOs) entered the public spotlight like never before. Amidst this increased visibility, the role is deeply contested. Much of the disagreement concerns whether CMOs should act independently of the government: while some argue CMOs should act as independent voices who work to shape government policy to protect public health, others stress that CMOs are civil servants whose job is …
Evaluating WHO Healthy Cities in Europe: Issues and Perspectives
Concepts in health promotion: The notion of relativism
Marriage for all? No challenge for the 1990s
Journal Article Marriage for all? No challenge for the 1990s Get access Evelyne de Leeuw Evelyne de Leeuw Department of Health Ethics and Philosophy School of Health Sciences University of LimburgPO Box 616 6200 MD Maastricht The Netherlands Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Health Promotion International, Volume 10, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 163–164, https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/10.2.163 Published: 01 J…
Health policy making: The Dutch experience
Reason and Protest in the New Urban Public Health Movement: An Observation on the Sociological Analysis of Political Discourse in the 'Healthy City
The urban environment represents an important social and geographical focus for the international new urban public health movement in general and the World Health Organization's 'Healthy Cities' project in particular. Existing and new policies of relevance to urban health are however infused with notions of cause, effect and ideas of appropriate intervention that reflect highly malleable and more or less conscious expressions of rationality, self…
Setting priorities in health care
Policy research: Development process determines success
Policy research: development process determines success. E de LeeuwCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.88.5.838-a Published Online: October 07, 2011
Islamic health promotion and interculturalization
Health promotion, in our analysis, appears to be as much a Western concept as one that is supported by Quranic texts (the Holy Word itself as well as the Sunnah). This insight may contribute to the further development of health promotion in both multi-cultural Western nations as well as Islamic nations themselves. In Western nations and settings this could be achieved through a process called 'interculturalization'.
Utility-driven evidence for healthy cities: Problems with evidence generation and application
Local health policy development processes in the Netherlands: An expanded toolbox for health promotion
Although much research has been done on the existence and formation of risk and issue based health policies, there is only little insight in health policy development processes in a broader context. This hampers intervention in these policy processes to adequately develop integrated and effective health policies. Legislation in the Netherlands requires municipalities to develop and implement local health policies. These policies are supposed to a…
Theoretical reflections on the nexus between research, policy and practice
The health field is being subjected to a dictate that policy, practice and research should be informed by evidence. The mere generation of evidence, however, does not mean that policy and practice will act upon it. Utilisation and application of research findings (often equalled with ‘evidence’) is a political process following rationalities that are not necessarily similar to those of researchers. In response to this issue that evidence does not…
Evidence for Healthy Cities: Reflections on practice, method and theory
The European Healthy Cities project can be characterized as a social movement that employs an extremely wide range of political, social and behavioural interventions for the development and sustenance of urban population health. At all of these levels, the movement is inspired by ideological, theoretical and evidence-based perspectives. The result of this stance is a dynamic, complex and diverse landscape of initiatives, plans, programmes and act…
Mixing Urban Health Research Methods for Best Fit
Healthy public in all policies
The introduction of the notion of 'Healthy Public Policy' in the Ottawa Charter is considered a relevant response to the emerging social-political context of the 1970s and 1980s. It also remains an important, yet volatile, argument for the consideration of policy impact on health. In our analysis, however, those that continued to argue for Healthy Public Policies and those who should develop them have remained naïve about the profound political d…
Sustainable funding of health initiatives in Wonju, Republic of Korea via a tobacco consumption tax
Wonju is the first municipality in the Republic of Korea to fund the Healthy City project through municipal revenues from the local tobacco consumption tax. We investigated the process of the local tobacco consumption tax being approved as the main source of financing for the local Healthy City project. We also examined the sustainability and sufficiency of the funding by looking at the pricing policies instituted for cigarettes, smoking prevalen…
Do Healthy Cities Work? A Logic of Method for Assessing Impact and Outcome of Healthy Cities
Evaluating WHO Healthy Cities in Europe: Issues and Perspectives
Evaluation of Partnership Working in Cities in Phase IV of the WHO Healthy Cities Network
Global Health Governance
When a new scholarly field is emerging one tends to look upon the arrival of new texts with excitement. Global health is such a field. Jeremy Youde's book Global Health Governance was therefore get
Nine questions to guide development and implementation of Health in All Policies
Based on the policy science literature, we formulate nine core questions that can guide the formulation, negotiation, development and implementation of Health in All Policies (HiAP). Each question is grounded in the political and policy science literature and culminates in checklist items that HiAP developers must consider
Towards health equity: A framework for the application of proportionate universalism
Policymaking in European healthy cities
This paper assesses policy development in, with and for Healthy Cities in the European Region of the World Health Organization. Materials for the assessment were sourced through case studies, a questionnaire and statistical databases. They were compiled in a realist synthesis methodology, applying theory-based evaluation principles. Non-response analyses were applied to ascertain the degree of representatives of the high response rates for the en…
Healthy Cities Phase V evaluation: Further synthesizing realism
In this article we reflect on the quality of a realist synthesis paradigm applied to the evaluation of Phase V of the WHO European Healthy Cities Network. The programmatic application of this approach has led to very high response rates and a wealth of important data. All articles in this Supplement report that cities in the network move from small-scale, time-limited projects predominantly focused on health lifestyles to the significant inclusio…
European Healthy Cities evaluation: Conceptual framework and methodology
This paper presents the methodology, programme logic and conceptual framework that drove the evaluation of the Fifth Phase of the WHO European Healthy Cities Network. Towards the end of the phase, 99 cities were designated progressively through the life of the phase (2009-14). The paper establishes the values, systems and aspirations that these cities sign up for, as foundations for the selection of methodology. We assert that a realist synthesis…
European Healthy Cities come to terms with health network governance
A focus on good governance in the WHO European network of Healthy Cities mirrors the WHO Region's strategic emphasis-its member states in the Health 2020 strategy espouse governance for health as key. Healthy Cities adopted governance as a key value and approach to delivering specific health programmes and policies. This article reviews the extent to which they actually introduce and align governance concepts and approaches with their local gover…
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