What is a Health Policy Paper?

• The issue addressed should be a legitimate contemporary health policy issue within which the current policy is clearly discernible.

• There should be clear alternatives to the current policy.

• There must be sufficient data present to provide the target audience (i.e. the decision-maker) with information to make a decision on the policy proposal.

Format for the Policy Paper

Below are the guidelines for writing a policy paper. Some variation may occur depending on the topic of the paper and the research methods being used. Policy papers should be approximately