[Actors and processes involved in implementing healthcare policies effectively: theoretical models and case studies]

When implementing healthcare policies it is common to observe a "gap" between policy objectives and results. This because effective translation of healthcare policy into action, from its formulation to final evaluation, requires the contemporary presence of various essential factors and conditions. In this paper, we have attempted to describe and analyse the various existing theoretical models of implementation of healthcare policy and critically discuss them also through the use of specific case studies.