Title: Health program planning and evaluation : a practical, systematic approach for community health /
Authors: Issel, L. Michele.
Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Program Evaluation methods; Program Development methods; Health Planning methods; Community Health Services organization & administration; Community health services.; Health planning.; United States
Abstract: "Health Program Planning and Evaluation: A Practical, Systematic Approach for Community Health will help you to systematically develop, thoughtfully implement, and rigorously evaluate health programs across a variety of health disciplines. It also serves to help students and professionals become savvy consumers of evaluation reports and prudent users of evaluation consultants. It presents the practical tools and concepts in language suitable for both the practicing and novice health program planner and evaluator."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: The context of health program development and evaluation -- Context of health program development and evaluation -- Diversity in programs and evaluation -- Basics of planning for health programs and services -- Health program development -- Community health assessment for program planning -- Program theory and interventions revealed -- Program objectives and setting targets for objectives -- Health program implementation -- Logistics of program implementation -- Process evaluation techniques -- Impact and outcome evaluation of health programs -- Impact evaluation questions and methods -- Designs for impact evaluation -- Evaluation data analysis and interpretation -- Qualitative evaluations -- From data to decision -- Cost analysis : the basics -- Continuing the cycle.