Negotiating Change: Ideas, Institutions, and Political Actors in Tobacco Control Policy Making in Mauritius.

摘要: Context This article explains the policy process that occasioned development of comprehensive tobacco control policies in Mauritius from 1980 to 2019. It does so by drawing theoretical insights John Kingdon's streams framework, historical institutionalism, and ideational perspectives explicate how rose status government agenda. Methods The main sources data are documents, media reports, archival studies, grey literature, published books articles. These were supplemented key informant interviews with officials, civil society groups, other vested interest groups. Findings finds prevalence noncommunicable diseases late 1980s, political commitment Mauritius's Labour control, institutional legacies Public Health Act 1925, administrative capacity Ministry Quality Life primary factors drove Mauritius. Conclusion findings this study will enrich our understanding change politics global south. Future research should investigate why some countries Africa have failed adopt despite ratifying Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.