Health governance by collaboration: a case study on an area-based programme to tackle health inequalities in the Dutch city of the Hague

Background: Area-based programmes are seen as a promising strategy for tackling health inequalities. In these programmes, local authorities and other local actors collaborate to employ health promoting interventions and policies. Little is known about the underlying processes of collaborative governance. To unravel this black box, we explored how the authority of The Hague, The Netherlands, developed a programme tackling health inequalities drawing on a collaborative mode of governance. Methods: Case study drawing on qualitative semi-structured interviews and document review. Data were inducti... Mehr ...