Skilled Public Health Nurses Process of Public Health Policy Development Part1 : Phase1; the Identification of Policy evelopment

摘要

The present study aimed to elucidate the process of public health policy development by focusing on practical experiences in public health policy development among skilled public health nurses working for administrative organizations. A semi-structured interview was conducted on 10 administrative public health nurses in N Prefecture regarding the public health policies that they were involved with, and the interview contents were analyzed using the grounded theory method. The results demonstrated that public health nurses developed public health policies through 2 phases. This article describes the first phase identification of policy development.