Health program planning and evaluation
Subtitle: a practical, systematic approach for community health
By: L. Michele Issel
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Burlington, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 573
ISBN-13: 9781284021042; 9781449649197
Subjects: Health promotion; Methods; Health planning; Program Evaluation; Program Development; Health Planning; Organization & administration; Methodology; Planning; Community health services; Community Health Services; Evaluation
Description: In this revision of Health Program Planning and Evaluation, author L. Michele Issel carefully walks the reader through the process for developing, implementing, and evaluating successful community health promotion programs. Featuring reader-friendly, accessible language and practical tools and concepts, this outstanding resource prepares students and professionals to become savvy consumers of evaluation reports and prudent users of evaluation consultants. The text includes a variety of practical tools and concepts necessary to develop and evaluate health programs, presenting them in a language understandable to both the practicing and novice health program planner and evaluator. The third edition reflects then major changes in the field of community health with updated examples and references throughout. Contemporary topics such as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009, information systems and web-based technology, and global health planning and evaluation are newly covered in this edition.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Section I. The context of health program development and evaluation; title: Context of health program development and evaluation; title: Relevance of diversity and disparities to health programs; title: sect. II. Defining the health problem; title: Planning for health programs and services; title: Community health assessment for program planning; title: Characterizing and defining the health problem; title: sect. III. Health program development; title: Program theory and interventions revealed; title: Program objectives and setting targets; title: sect. IV. Implementing and monitoring the health program; title: Program implementation; title: Monitoring implementation through budgets and information systems; title: Implementation evaluation : measuring inputs and outputs; title: Program quality and fidelity : managerial and contextual considerations; title: sect. V. Outcome and impact evaluation of health programs; title: Planning the intervention effects evaluation; title: Choosing designs for effect evaluation; title: Sampling designs and data sources for effect evaluations; title: Quantitative data analysis and interpretation; title: Qualitative methods for planning and evaluation; title: sect. VI. Additional considerations for evaluators; title: Program evaluators' responsibilities.