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Table 3 Selected codes, categories and themes from the data analysis

From: Responding to non-communicable diseases in Zambia: a policy analysis

Codes

Categories

Themes

• Findings from local studies

Presence of evidence

Context

• Information from health facility

  

• International reports

  

• Responding to International resolutions

Global health agenda

 

• Being part of global community

  

• Need for development

National vision

 

• Stakeholders involvement

Policy formulation process

Process: Policy development

• Developing the draft policy

 

• Policy adoption

 

• Political will

 

• Lengthy policy development process

Challenges in the process

 

• Lack of funding stalling the process

 

• Influence from political powers

  

• Contribution of stakeholder

Role of the stakeholders

Actors

• Drivers of the agenda

Influencers of policy

 

• Situation analysis

Scope of the NCD policy

Content

• Prioritization of NCDs

  

• Strategies to tackle NCDs

  

• Health education not emphasized

Gaps in NCD policies

 

• Lack of baseline data

  

• Domestication of guidelines

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